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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX, No. 1262 



from Ikerature received and notes are as fol- 

 lows: 



Hrdlicka, Ales: Physical Anthropology: Its Scope 

 and Aims. 



Miller, Gerrit S., Jr. : The Piltdown Jaw. 



Hooton, Ernest A.: Eskimoid Characters in Ice- 

 landic Skulls. 



Holmes, William H. : Committee on Anthropology, 

 National Research Council. 



Keith, A.: Anthropological Activities in connection 

 with the War in England. 



Hrdlicka, Ales: Physical Anthropology: Its His- 

 tory in America. 



WiUiams, E. T. : The Origin of the Chinese. 



Guthe, C. E. : Russian Jews in Boston. 



Hurlin, Ralph G. : Preparation of Skeletons by 

 Bacterial Digestion. 



Hrdlicka, Ales: Physical Anthropology: Recent 

 History and Present Status. 



Babcock, Wm. H. : Early Observations in American 

 Physical Anthropology. 



Giuffrida-Ruggeri, V.: The Origins of the Italian 

 People. 



Schultz, Adolf H. : External Nose, Bony Nose and 

 Nasal Cartilages, in Whites and Negroes. 



Lundberg, Emma O. : The Illegitimate Child and 

 War Conditions. 



Hrdlicka, Ales: Physical Anthropology: Conclu- 

 sion. 



Boas, Eranz: Anthropology of Sweden. 



Earabee, Wm. Curtis: The Arawaks of Northern 

 Brazil and Southern British Guiana. 



UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 NEWS 



The Carnegie Corporation of IsTew York 

 has voted a grant of $500,000 to the Medical 

 Department of Queen's University, Kingston, 

 Ont. This grant is related to that in the 

 will of Dr. James Douglas, New York, and 

 is conditional or raising an additional 

 $500,000. 



The Journal of the American Medical As- 

 sociation states that plans have heen drawn 

 for a proposed new building on the grounds 

 of the Johns Hopkins Hospital to house the 

 medical library of the hospital and the sur- 

 gical histories of patients who have been 

 treated there, and will also contain an auditor- 

 ium, with subsidiary rooms for religious and 

 philanthropic work. The library will be built 

 in honor of Dr. Henry M. Hurd, Baltimore, 



who for many years was superintendent of 

 the hospital. The structure, according to the 

 present plans, will cost $100,000. Gifts of 

 $50,000 and of $30,000 have been made. 



Under the will of the late Mrs. Purdie the 

 residue of her estate, amounting to about £25,- 

 000, has been bequeathed to the University of 

 St. Andrews for the promotion of research in 

 chemistry. Her husband, the late Professor 

 Purdie, had built for the university an insti- 

 tute for chemical research. 



Dr. H. M. Parshley, of the department of 

 zoology in Smith College, has been promoted 

 to an associate professorship. He has been 

 appointed associate in field zoolog-y at the Cold 

 Spring Harbor summer laboratory. 



Dr. Harry N. Eaton, formerly associate 

 professor of geology in the Pennsylvania State 

 College, has been appointed to a similar posi- 

 |tion in Syracuse University. He spent the 

 past fall and early winter in research in the 

 paleontological laboratory of Dr. G. D. Harris 

 at Cornell University. 



. Dr. W. E. MJLNE, recently of Bowdoin Col- 

 lege, has accepted the position of professor of 

 mathematics at the University of Oregon. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



THE KATMAI NATIONAL MONUMENT AND 

 THE VALLEY OF TEN THOUSAND SMOKES 



To THE Editor of Science : In your issue of 

 January 3 you print a note headed " The 

 Katmai National Monument," derived from 

 the annual report of the director of the Na- 

 tional Park Service. In such a report, com- 

 piled by men not familiar with the Valley of 

 Ten Thousand Smokes and not students of 

 volcanism, some misconceptions and misin- 

 terpretations are very apt to creep in. This 

 was particularly likely in the present in- 

 stance, since the publication of the technical 

 papers devoted to the scientific results of the 

 expeditions, from which alone the necssary 

 information could have been derived, has 

 been delayed. 



The hypothesis that would occur to any one 

 as the most probable explanation of the 

 Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is that given 



