SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcojib, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, As- 

 tronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thueston, Engineering ; lEA Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 J. LeConte, Geology; "W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Beooks, 

 Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Haet Meeeiam, Vertebrate Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; 

 N. L. Beitton, Botany ; Heney F. Osborn, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditch, 

 Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 

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



Feiday, July 19, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



Daniel Cady Eaton: N. L. Beitton 57 



The United States Geological Survey 58 



The Biological Experiment Station of the University 

 of Illinois 62 



Aleut Baidarkas in Kamchatka : Leonhaed Stej- 

 negee 62 



The History of Navigation in Spain : Joseph de 

 Peeeott 63 



Current Notes on Anthropology ( XI. ) : — 66 



Badal and Ethnic Traits ; Tlie Progressive Depopu- 

 lation of Northern Regions; The Pictograp)lis of 

 Loioer California ; The Earliest Human Occupants 

 of the Atlantic Watershed : D. G. Beinton. 



Notes on Agrictilture (V.): — 68 



Native Plums and Russian Cherries; Pineapple 

 Culture ; The Flow of Maple Sap ; Damping Off: 

 Byeon D. Halsted. 



Scientific Notes and News : — 68 



The Congress of Physiologists ; Yerkes Ohservatory; 

 The Royal Astronomical Society ; General. 



University and Educational News : — 72 



Anthropology in Harvard University; Union Col- 

 lege; General. 



Correspondence: — 74 



An International Congress of Bibliography : Ak- 

 SEL G. S. JoSEPHSON; A Card Catalogue of Scien- 

 tific Literature: F. B. WEEKS; Volcanic Dust: 

 H. J. Haenly. 



Scientific Literature: — 78 



Preyer's Psychologic des Schreibens : Peesifoe 

 Feazee. Mali's Aquatic Insects : S. H. S. ; But- 

 terflies and Moths of Tenei-iffe : SAMUEL Hen- 

 SHAW. Morphology of Crystals : A. J. Moses. 



Scientific Jotirnals: — 83 



Tlie Astroj}hysical Journal; The American Natu- 

 ralist. 



Neiv Books 84 



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DANIEL CADY EATON. 



Daniel Cady Eaton, long Professor of 

 Botany in Yale College, died at his home 

 in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday, June 

 29th. He had been ill for many months, 

 and letters received from him during the 

 past winter and spring show that, while he 

 had become much discouraged about his 

 condition, his devotion to his chosen science 

 was unabated. 



He was graduated from Yale College in 

 1857 and from the Lawrence Scientific 

 School of Harvard College in 1860. He 

 subsequently resided in New York City, 

 where he was intimately associated with 

 Dr. John Torrey. He was elected Professor 

 of Botany at Yale in 1864 and occupied the 

 chair until his death, his services to the 

 Universitj' having thus extended over more 

 than thirty years. 



Professor Eaton's special field of work 

 was in the taxonomy of ferns, mosses and 

 algse, and nearly all his published papers 

 relate to these groups of plants, those on 

 ferns being the most numerous, and through 

 them his name is most widely known. The 

 most extensive of these is his ' Ferns of 

 North America,' published in parts during 

 1879 and 1880, forming two quarto volumes, 

 illustrated bj' eighty-one plates. He con- 

 tributed the descriptions of Filices to Dr. 

 Chapman's ' Flora of the Southern United 

 States' in 1860; of the Acrogens to Dr. 

 Gray's ' Manual of Botany,' fifth edition in 



