SCIENCE 



FEB 28 wo 



Friday, February 27, 1920 



CONTENTS 



The American Ansociation for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 On the Eelations of Anthropology and 



/; Dr. Ale?. HkdliCka 199 



The Functions and Ideals of a National Geo- 

 logical Survey : Dr. F. L. Kansome 201 



David S. Pratt ; W. A. H 207 



Scientifia Events: — 



The Bonaparte and Loutreuil Foundation of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences; Award of 

 the Nobel Prize to Professor Haier; Dye 

 Section of the American Chemical Society. 208 



Scientific Notes and News 209 



University and Educational News 2] 1 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 A Proposed Method for Carrying Triangula- 

 tion across Wide Gaps: Dr. H. L. Cooke, 

 PsoPESsoR Henry Norris Russell. 211 



Two New Base Maps of the United States. ... 213 



Special Articles: 



Substitutes for Phenolphthalein and Methyl 

 Orange : F. M. Scales 214 



The American Society of Zoologists: Pro- 

 fessor W.. C. Allbe 214 



The Mineralogical Society of America: Dr. 

 Herbert P. Whitlock 219 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section A — Maithematics and Astronomy: 

 Professor F. E. Motjlton 220 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



ON THE RELATIONS OF ANTHROPOL- 

 OGY AND PSYCHOLOGY! 



If w© are (to compare two objects and study 

 their relations, we will naturally want data as 

 to their dimensions, their composition, and 

 their observed influence upon each other. In 

 comparing two branches of science we should 

 thoroughly know their scope, the intrinsic 

 work and the tendencies of each, and their mu- 

 tual interplay and cooperation. This stipu- 

 lates, in the first place, a clear definition of 

 both of the branches concerned ; in the second, 

 a good acquaintance with their workings and 

 their possibilities; and lastly, a possession of 

 some satisfactory measure of the field of ac- 

 tivities of each of the two branches for direct 

 comparison. 



In considering the relations of anthropology 

 and psychology, the conditions just named are 

 regrettably, not all fulfillable. We are fairly 

 clear to-day as to the definition of scope, and 

 work done, as well as doing and to be done, in 

 physical anthropology; but we are less clear 

 in these respects when it comes to other sub- 

 divisions of the " science of man," and matters 

 are even less eatiafactory when we approach 

 psychology. 



In a general way, we all feel that psychology 

 and anthropology are related. The very ex- 

 istence of this joint Section, as well as that of 

 the joint committee of our two branches in 

 the National Eesearch Council, are sufficient 

 proofs of this feeling, in this country at least. 

 "We all know also that anthropological studies 

 of human activities, both in the far past and 

 at present, ithe studies of language, beliefs, 

 ceremonies, music and habits, as well as the 

 studies upon the human and animal brain and 

 on the sense organs and their functions, are 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section H — Anthropology, American Assoeiatdon 

 for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, De- 

 cember, 1919. 



