SCIENCE 



Bditoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeing, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendeuhall, Physics; R. H. Thueston, Engineering; lEA Remsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; TV. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Beooks, 



C. Haet Mereiam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. Beitton, 



Botany; Heney F. Osboen, General Biology; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; 



H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; J. S. Bix-linqs, Hygiene; J. McKeen Cattell, 



Psychology; Daniel G. Beinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, March 4, 1898. 



CONTENTS: 



Audubon and Ms Journals (with Plate) : C. Haet 

 Meeeiam 289 



The Import of the Totem : Alice C. Fletchee....296 



Multiple-cylinder Steam Engine : R. H. Thueston. .304 



Prehistoric Quarizite Quarries in Central Eastern 

 Wyoming: Wilbue C. Knight 308 



Association of American Anatomists : D. S. LAMB..311 



Cwrrent Notes on Anthropology : — 



South American Ethnography ; Living Tribes in the 

 Stone Age: D. G. Beinton 312 



Scientific Notes and News 313 



University and Educational News 316 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Brevity in Citations: Heney B. Waed 317 



Scientific Literatv/re : — 



Pfeffer's Pflanzenphysiologie : D. T. MacDou- 

 G AL. Trail and Camp-fire : C. H. M 318 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington : E. D. 

 Peeston. Zoological Club of the University of 

 Chicago: C. M. CHILD, G. W. Huntee, Je. 

 Torrey Botanical Club: E. S. BuEGESS 321 



Scientific Journals 323 



New Books 324 



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

 lor review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prot. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garrlson-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



AUDUBON AND HIS JOURNALS. 

 The memory of Audubon is dear to the 

 hearts of the American people. The vigor 

 and versatility of his writings, the emi- 

 nence he attained as a naturalist, and his 

 high personal character won him the ad- 

 miration of his contemporaries and made 



him an honored son in the land of his 

 adoption. Born at an opportune time and 

 transported to the New World when still a 

 lad, he undertook and accomplished one of 

 the most gigantic tasks it has ever fallen to 

 the lot of one man to perform. Although 

 for years deflected from the course Nature 

 had laid out for him, and tortured by half- 

 hearted attempts at a commercial life 

 against which his restive spirit rebelled, he 

 finally broke loose from his bondage and 

 devoted the remainder of his days to the 

 grand work which has made his name im- 

 mortal. 



Audubon was a man of phenomenal pow- 

 ers of endurance and indomitable courage ; 

 his determination, perseverance and force 

 of character are shown by the way he over- 

 came seemingly insuperable obstacles. Is 

 it not extraordinary that a person of his 

 humble means should not only complete 

 such an unparalleled series of paintings but 

 should cross the ocean, make friends and 

 admirers of noblemen and leading men of 

 science, and succeed, in spite of the enor- 

 mous cost, in bringing out in colors an 

 atlas of 435 double elephant folio plates of 

 birds ? 



His magnificent contributions to the nat- 

 ural history of the New World have not 

 been surpassed. The best known of these 

 is the Birds of America. * The equally 



*The plates were originally issued in 87 parts, 

 covering a period of twelve years (1827-1838). The 



