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Pt. Stivens, Parry Peninsula. According to 
his report a great deal of pottery is found 
upon old village sites, some at a depth of sev- 
eral feet. This pottery is of similar type to 
that found among and lately manufactured by 
some of the Alaskan Eskimos, Pottery has 
so far not been reported from any of the cen- 
tral and eastern Eskimos. It was formerly 
assumed that the presence of pottery among 
the Alaskan Eskimos was to be explained as 
indicating forms copied from Siberian or 
neighboring American tribes. The recent dis- 
coveries of Mr. Stefansson indicate that the 
art of pottery among the Eskimos must have 
been of ancient origin and at one time very 
widely distributed. Furthermore Mr. Stefans- 
son reports that other objects he finds are sim- 
ilar in type to those described by Professor 
Boas, discovered by Captain George Comer in 
ancient village sites in Southampton Island, 
Hudson Bay. These were also similar to ob- 
jects recently discovered in Greenland, lead- 
ing to the conclusion that older types of 
Eskimo culture must have been much more 
uniform throughout the entire stretch of 
Arctic America than at present. Mr. Stefans- 
son’s find of similar objects on the west side 
of Hudson Bay makes it more probable that 
there was formerly but a single type of Eskimo 
culture from Alaska to Greenland. 
To demonstrate the process involved in 
changing raw materials into finished products, 
the course in commerce at the University of 
Wisconsin maintains a commercial museum 
for the use of the students in the course. De- 
tailed exhibits of almost every product that 
has any commercial value are included. 
Among the most instructive are those of cot- 
ton, wool, silk, the grains and their products, 
rubber, steel and aluminum products and 
structural fibers. Different forms of money 
used in all parts of the world, and a collection 
of coins representing the circulating media 
of some of the less civilized peoples, are in- 
teresting features of this museum. 
SuBJOINED are the names of the members of 
the commission on resuscitation from shock, 
selected by the American Medical Association 
at the request of the National Electric Light 
SCIENCE 
[N.S. Vou. XXKV. No. 890 
Association. This is the result of a series of 
conferences on the subject held during the 
past year by representatives of the leading 
engineering societies, officials of the govern- 
ment, ete. Resuscitation Commission: Dr. 
W. B. Cannon (chairman), department of 
physiology, Harvard Medical School. Nomi- 
nated by the American Medical Association: 
Dr. Yandell Henderson, department of physi- 
ology, Yale University; Dr. Geo. W. Crile, 214 
Osborn Building, Cleveland, Ohio; Dr. S. J. 
Meltzer, Rockefeller Institute. Mominated by 
the National Electric Light Association: Dr. 
Edward A. Spitzka, professor of anatomy, 
Jefferson Medical College; Mr. W. C. L. 
Kglin, Philadelphia Electric Company. Nom- 
inated by the American Institute of Electrical 
Engineers: Professor Elihu Thomson, ex- 
president of the American Institute of Hlec- 
trical Engineers, Lynn, Mass.; Dr. Arthur E. 
Kennelly, Harvard University; Mr. W. D. 
Weaver (secretary), editor Hlectrical World, 
New York City. A conference was held on 
December 16 by the president and secretary 
of the commission and some preliminary work 
was mapped out. These steps will be followed 
up by an early meeting of the full commis- 
sion, probably in New York in January, after 
which the plans adopted for the investigation 
will be vigorously pushed. It is felt that the 
much-needed revision of rules and practise in 
regard to this highly important subject will 
now be taken up under the best auspices and 
that authoritative conclusions will be reached. 
The officers of the association are highly en- 
couraged in knowing that the question will 
receive the serious attention of these eminent 
medical men and that they regard it as worthy 
of their special study. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 
Dr. JouHn Grier Hipsen, Stuart professor of 
logic, has been elected president of Princeton 
University. 
Dr. and Mrs. CHARLES WALDSTEIN, of Cam- 
bridge, England, have given $5,000 to Colum- 
bia University to establish lectures on the 
foreign policy of the United States. 
