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 Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Hart Meeriam, Vertebrate Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; 

 N. L. Britton, Botany ; Hbney F. Osborn, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditoh, 

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

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Feidat, Decembee 6, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



Charles Valentine Riley: A. S. Packard 745 



Biographical Notes on Lotiis Pasteur : Jules Mar- 

 COU 751 



VnpvMished Papers by llolbrook Cushman : Edited 

 by W. Hallock 757 



Measurements of the Accuracy of Becollection : J. 

 McKeen Cattell 761 



Current Notes on Anthropology ( XIV. ) ; — 



Latest Words in Craniology : Yucatecan Studies : 

 D. G. Brinton 766 



Current Note.i on Physiography {XX.): — 



The Distribution of Plants and Animals; Plants 

 of the Alpine Region : "W. M. Davis 767 



Scientific Notes and News : 768 



Educational Notes and News 770 



Correspondence : — 



Testimony versus Evidence: W. K. Beooks 771 



Scientific Literature : — 



Dana's Minerals and How to Study Them : S. L. 

 Penfield. Darwin's Elements of Botany : L. 

 H. Bailey. Slurray's Introduction to the Study 

 of Seaweeds : W. A. Setchell. Culin's Korean 

 Games: D. G. Beinton 773 



Scientific Journals : — 



The American Journal of Science ; Psyche 777 



Societies and Academies : — 



Biological Society of Washington : F. A. Lucas. 

 The New Yorlc Academy of Science : J. F. Kemp. 

 American Chemical Society : Dueeand Wood- 

 man. Boston Society of Natural History : Samuel 

 Henshaw 778 



New Books 780 



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CHARLES VALENTINE RILEY. 



The career of this distinguished natural- 

 ist, so suddenly closed while in good health, 

 and with apparently many years of useful- 

 ness before him, was a remarkable one. 

 Biologist, artist, editor and public official, 

 the story of his struggles and successes, 

 tinged as it is with romance, is one full of 

 interest. Beginning life in America as a 

 poor lad on an Illinois farm, he rose by his 

 own exertions to distinction, and to become 

 one of our most useful citizens in science, both 

 pure and applied. His nature was a many- 

 sided one, and his success in life was due to 

 sheer will-power, unusual executive force, 

 critical judgment, untiring industiy, skill 

 with pencil and pen, and a laudable ambition, 

 united with an intense love of nature and of 

 science for its own sake. This rare combi- 

 nation of varied qualities, of which he made 

 the most, rendered him during the thirty 

 years of his active life widely known as a 

 public official, as a scientific investigator, 

 while of economic entomologists he was 

 facile princeps. 



Charles Valentine Eiley was born at 

 Chelsea, London, September 18, 1843. His 

 boyhood was spent at Walton-on-Thames, 

 where he made the acquaintance of the late 

 W. C. Hewitson, author of a work on but- 

 terflies, which undoubtedly developed his 

 love for insects. At the age of 11 he went 

 to school for three years at Dieppe, after- 

 wards studying at Bonn-on-the-Ehine. At 



