Apeil 15, 1898.] 



SCIENCE. 



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of Bulletins, each one coataining a brief dis- 

 cussion of some meteorological data of par- 

 ticular interest. So far three Bulletins 

 have been issued, the successive subjects 

 being as follows : No. 1, TJie Highest Kite 

 Ascensions in 1897 ; ISTo. 2, Examples of the 

 Diurnal and Cydonie Changes in Temperature 

 and Relative Humidity at Different Heights in 

 the Free Air; No. 3, The Storm of January 

 Si-February 1, 1898. Each Bulletin is of 

 4to size, consists of 4 pages, and is illus- 

 trated by means of temperature, pressure 

 and other curves. 



RECENT PTTBLICATIONS. 



Anales de la Ofieina Meteorologica Argentina. 



Buenos Aires, 1897. 4to. Pp. 502. 



Contains full meteorological tables for the 

 Isla de los Estados (Staten Island), a most 

 interesting station between Lats. 54° and 

 65° S., off the southeastern extremity of 

 South America. 

 Weather Forecasting and Weather Types on the 



North Pacific Slope. B. S. Pague and S. 



M. Blandfoed. Portland, Ore., 1897. 



8vo. Pp. 29. Charts 5. 



An excellent pamphlet, along lines which 

 might profitably be followed by other local 

 forecast officials in different parts of the 

 country. We need more study and more 

 illustration of the living weather types that 

 go to make up climate, and rather less time 

 spent on the tabulation of climatic data. 

 R. DeC. Ward. 



Hakvaed TJniveesity. 



CUBBENT NOTES ON AKTEBOPOLOGY. 

 the human cranial norm. 



In the Correspondenz-blatt of the German 

 Anthropological Society for December last 

 the distinguished anthropologist, Professor 

 Eanke, has a suggestive article on the indi- 

 vidual variations of the skull form, in 

 which he maintains several striking theses. 



Thus he argues that the highest cranial 

 form, that of man, is the universal embry- 



onic norm from which the skulls of all the 

 mammalia develop. Again, in following 

 the variations of each individual skull, we 

 find that they represent in turn the cranial 

 forms which have been held characteristic 

 of all the various races of man. Further, 

 every skull at the time of birth is orthog- 

 nathic, and each has a tendency to become 

 more and more prognathic. This is ob- 

 servable in the highest as well as the lowest 

 races, though in the former it is more fre- 

 quently checked by anatomical correlations. 



KOREAN ETHNOGRAPHY. 



Now that the affairs of Korea are served 

 up daily almost in our newspapers, the 

 manners and customs of that country de- 

 serve to interest us. One of the most 

 pleasant and yet completest accounts of 

 them was written about a year ago by Pro- 

 fessor Edward S. Morse and published in 

 Appleton''s Pojndar Science Monthly for May, 

 1897 (and reprint), under the title 'Ko- 

 rean Interviews.' 



In the space of sixteen pages he describes 

 the family relations, education, marriage, 

 customs, religions, burials, usages, festivals, 

 arts, games, etc. The conclusion at which 

 one arrives is that the sooner the present 

 government, laws, customs and religions 

 are wiped out of existence the better it 

 will be for the Korean people, whether 

 this is accomplished by the Russians or the 

 Japanese. 



TRIBES ENCOUNTERED BY CORTES. 



The location of the first battlefield of 

 Cortes in lihe New World, that called 

 ' Cintla,' and the ethic affinities of the tribes 

 he then encountered, have been subjects of 

 varied opinion by M. Charnay, Orozco y 

 Berra and other writers. In an article in 

 the American Antiquarian for September, 

 1896, I attempted to define with pre- 

 cision the geographical spot and the tribe 

 he there encountered. More recently and 

 without a knowledge of my investigations 



