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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLIX. No. 1270 



Fruits; Insects affecting Field Creps and 

 Pasturage; Insects affecting Truck Crops and 

 the Vegetable Garden; Insect Enemies of 

 Greenhouse and House Plants and of the 

 Flower Garden ; Insects affecting Shade Trees ; 

 Insects affecting Man and the Household; In- 

 sects and Insect-like Animals attacking Stock 

 and Poultry; Mill and Elevator Insects and 

 Mill Fumigation; Our Insect Friends; The 

 Relations of Birds to Agriculture; Some four- 

 footed pests of the Farm. 



There are four colored plates, and 414 illus- 

 trations in the text, many of the figures are 

 from original photographs and drawings, and 

 the others are borrowed from various sources, 

 due credit being given. 



This little volume differs from most other 

 manuals of injurious insects in that consider- 

 able information regarding common birds and 

 rodents may be found in the same book. Of 

 course where so many species are treated 

 within the lim^its of a small-sized volume, the 

 account of each must necessarily be very 

 brief. Probably the value of the work would 

 have been enhanced by giving after each one 

 or two references where the reader could ob- 

 tain more complete information. 



IsTevertheless the author has condensed a large 

 amotmt of information in this small volume 

 which is well printed and supplied with index. 

 It will prove a convenient manual for all 

 growers of plants and keepers of live stock. 



W. E. Brixton 



Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCHi 



At the meeting of the American Anthro- 

 pological Association held in Baltimore, De- 

 cember 2Y, Professor J. C. Merriam, repre- 

 senting the N^ational Research Council, made 

 a formal statement of the plans of the council 

 in regard to the organization of science, and 

 requested an expression of opinion on the 



1 Eeport of the Committee of the American 

 Anthropological Association to Professor 6. E. 

 Hale, chairman of the National Eesearch Council, 

 Washington, D. C. 



part of the American Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation in regard to the iwsition of anthro- 

 lx)logy in the work of the National Research 

 Council. 



In consequence of this request and the dis- 

 cussion following it, the undersigned com- 

 mittee was appointed for the purpose of giving 

 to tlie IvTational Research Council information 

 in regard to the work actually done by Amer- 

 ican anthropologists. A statement has been 

 added pointing out the causes for the slow 

 development of certain branches of anthro- 

 pology. 



The committee has submitted a number of 

 questions to American anthropologists and at- 

 tached to this are a number of replies to our 

 circular letter. 



The general tendency of the scientific work 

 of American anthropologists may briefly be 

 summarized as follows: It is but natural that 

 in a country like our own, which contains the 

 remains of a considerable nimiber of prim- 

 itive people, the historical interest in the 

 aborigines, combined with the ease of access- 

 ibility of the remainder of the ancient tribes, 

 should bring it about that inquiries relating 

 to their customs, languages and physical types 

 should dominate American anthropological re- 

 search, and that theoretical work should be 

 based very largely ujwn the results obtained 

 from a study of American tribes. The 

 methods which give the easiest results in re- 

 gard to these problems are archeological, 

 ethnographical and linguistic, and for this 

 reason these three lines of inquiry have 

 hitherto predominated in the research work of 

 American anthropologists. 



At the same time the necessity for a broader 

 outlook is keenly felt. The Field Museum of 

 Natural History has included in the scope of 

 its work Eastern Asia, Malaysia and Melanesia. 

 Harvard University has expanded its work 

 over Africa. The University of Pennsylvania 

 has undertaken research work in South Amer- 

 ica, the American Museum of Natural History 

 and the United States National Museum, in 

 Asia, and a few other attempts of similar kind 

 for obtaining a wider basis for research in 

 cultural history may be noted. 



