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 tronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thueston, Engineering ; Ira Eemsen, Chemistry ; 

 J. Le Conte, Geology; "W. JI. Davis, Physiography; 0. C. Marsh, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 

 Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Hart Mereiam, Vertebrate Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; 

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

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Friday, July 26, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



Thomas Henry Huxley 85 



The Si. Slias Bear: W. H. Dall 87 



The Causes of the Cfulf Stream: E. Meade Bache 88 



Physiology in 1894 95 



Current Notes on Physiography ( XIII. ) : — 97 



The Catoctiii Belt of Maryland and Virginia; Re- 

 cent Topographical Maps; The Delaware Water 

 Gap: W. M. Davis. 



Psychological Notes : — 99 



Tlie Sense of Equilibrium; Consciousness and the 

 Origin of Species: J. McK. C. 



Scientific Notes and Nexcs : — 100 



!Z7ie Parallax of Eta Cassiopeix; Tlie Slarine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory ; The Population of France; 

 Karl Ludwig's Library ; Tlie American Philolog- 

 ical Association; General. 



University and Educational News 104 



Correspondence : — 105 



Balm for Wounded Authors and Proof-readers: 

 Theo. Gill. TJie Generic Name Anisonyx Pre- 

 occupied: C. Hart Meeeiam. Correction: Eu- 

 gene A. Smith. 



Scientific Literature : — 107 



Angot's Les aurores polaires: A. M. Geological 

 Survey of Michigan: J. F. Kejip. Verofentlichung- 

 en aus dem Koniglichen Museum fur Volkerkunde: 

 D. G. Brinton. 



Societies and Academies : — 110 



Tlie Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto. 



Scientific Journals Ill 



The American Chemical Journal. 



New Books 112 



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 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garrison on Hudson, N. Y. 



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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 



Huxley died on June 29th, having at- 

 tained the age of seventy years on May 4th. 

 His death was not unexpected, as he had 

 been Ijang ill at Eastbourne for nearly 

 four months, nor can it be regarded as pre- 

 mature, as his important contributions to 

 science ceased some fifteen j'ears ago. But 

 the vigor of his thought and language had 

 remained unabated, and his death, follow- 

 ing that of Tyndall, leaves a great blank in 

 the group of men who from England have 

 directed the course of modern science. 



Huxley made his own way, his father 

 having been an undermaster in a school in 

 the Middlesex village of Ealing. He be- 

 came a surgeon in the navy and sj)ent four 

 years in a cruise in the South Seas. A sea 

 voyage was thus the determining factor in 

 his life, as in the case of Darwin. Several 

 communications sent home to the Linntean 

 Society were rejected, but in 1849 the Eoj'al 

 Society published his paper on the Anatomy 

 and Affinities of the Medusa, and in 1851 he 

 was elected a fellow of the Society. He was 

 disappointed in his hopes that the admiralty 

 would publish his great work on Oceanic 

 Hydra (which finally appeared in 1859), and 

 resigned his position in the navy. After 

 several failures to secure a position (he and 

 his friend Tyndall applied unsuccessfully 

 for vacant chairs in the University of 

 Toronto) he succeeded Forbes in 1854 as 

 paleontologist and professor of natitral his- 



