SCIENCE 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. "Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeino, As- 

 tronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physios ; E. H. Thdeston, Engineering ; lEA Ebmsen, Chemistry ; 

 J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; 0. C. Mabsh, Paleontology; W. K. Beooks, 

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

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

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

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



Feidat, August 9, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



Saporta and Williamson and their work in Paleohot- 



any : Lestee F. Waed 141 



James C. Filling: W J McGee 150 



Agrostology in the Department of Agriculture : F. 



Lamson Sceibnee 151 



Phototopography : J. A. Flembe 153 



27(6 International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. ..\5i 



Notes from London : E. H. T 157 



Scientific Notes and News : — 158 



Fossil Mammals of Patagonia ; Comparative Neu- 

 rology ; The American Microscopical Society; 

 American Mathematical Society; Tlie Helmholtz 

 Memorial; General. 



University and Educational News 163 



Correspondence: — 164 



What is High Work 1 L. H. Bailey. 



Scientific Literature: — 164 



Lombroso's Female Offender : Chaeles L. 

 Dana. Arendt's Chemie : E. H. K. 



Scientific Journals 167 



2he Botanical Gazette ; 2he Psychological Eeciew ; 

 Psyche. 

 Neto Books 168 



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SAPOBTA AND WILLIAMSON AND THEIR 

 WORK IN PALEOBOTANY. 



The science of fossil plants has lost within 

 a period of less than six months two of its 

 oldest and most eminent cultivators, the 

 Marquis Gaston de Saporta and Professor 

 "William C. Williamson, the former of whom 

 died on the 26th of January, at the age of 



seventy-two years, and the latter on the 23d 

 of June, at the age of seventy-eight years. 

 The immense loss which science has sus- 

 tained in the death of these two men is 

 only partially lessened by the fact that they 

 were not cut oflP, as are so many men of 

 promise, in the prime of life, but were spared 

 to continue to a ripe age their valuable 

 labors. The monument that each has 

 erected for himself is greater and more en- 

 during than any that others can ever erect 

 for them. 



Having been in direct communication 

 with both of them for a full decade and 

 having been also, to a limited extent, person- 

 ally acquainted with them, I have felt it a 

 duty to science, and especially to that branch 

 of science which I have cultivated most, to 

 speak a word from this side of the Atlantic 

 in recognition of their services. 



THE MARQUIS SAPORTA. 



In a paper in which I contributed in 1885 

 to the Fifth Annual Report of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey (p. 383), and in which I 

 gave brief sketches of the principal workers 

 in paleobotany, I attemjated to review 

 Saporta's work, as then known to me, from 

 an acquaintance with his scientific contri- 

 butions. This sketch was exceedingly de- 

 fective and did poor justice to his merits, 

 but was the best I was able to make at that 

 date. Aside from the grave omissions there 

 made, it must be said that his labors were 



