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Epirortan Committe: S. Newcoms, Mathematics; R. S. WoopwarpD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THuRsToN, Engineering; IRA ReMsEN, Chemistry; 
J. Lt Contg, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; Henry F. OsBorN, Paleontology ; W. K. 
Brooks, C. HART MeERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. ScuppER, Entomology; C. E. Bessmy, N. L. 
Brirron, Botany; C. 8S. Mrnot, Embryology, Histology; H. P. Bowpircn, Physiology; 
J. S. Brntinas, Hygiene; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology; 
J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, DECEMBER 22, 1899. 
CONTENTS: 
Sir William Dawson (with plate): PROFESSOR 
TESEVAGN Ke DP AUDANIM Shea eeincisansioascleisetlelsieciaeiactislselnalslals 905 
Extent of Instruction in Anthropology in Europe and 
the United States: DR. GEORGE GRANT MAc- 
(CIUTRIBNS, Leonennopsansdedagdn pdauonacb sanedsuuacodseoDoap bodes 910 
Economics, Politics and Finance of Voting Ma- 
chines: PROFESSOR R. H. THURSTON...........- 917 
A Complete Mosasaur Skeleton, Osseous and Carti- 
laginous: PROFESSOR HENRY F. OSBORN...... 919 
The Indiana University Biological Station: PRo- 
FESSOR C. H. HIGENMANN.............c-00eeeees si.) 92D 
Scientific Books :-— 
Heilprin on Alaska and the Klondike: DR. W. 
H. Datt. Wegmann on the Design and Con- 
struction of Dams: PROFESSOR M. MERRIMAN. 
Harshberger on the Botanists of Philadelphia and 
Their Work: PROFESSOR LucIEN M. UNDER- 
woop. Van Name onthe Planarians: H. B. W. 929 
Societies and Academies :— 
Biological Society of Washington: Dr. O. F. 
Cook. Philosophical Society of Washington: E. 
D. PRESTON. Anthropological Society of Wash- 
ington: Dr. J. H. McCormicn. © Section of 
Anthropology and Psychology of the New York 
Academy of Sciences: PROFESSOR CHARLES H. 
J) WILD)D)-snosoeoomobecas-sees 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
Dr. Wilson on Pre-historic Anthropology : 
McGuire. A Naturalist’s Directory: FE. V. 
Wiicox. Dr. J. W. Foster and the ‘ Lakeside 
Monthly’: FRANCIS F. BROWNE..............0-00+- 935 
Botanical Notes :— 
The Wilt Disease of Cotton, Watermelon and 
Cowpea; The Fertilization of Albugo Bliti; The 
Ottawa Arboretum; The Spread of Forests in 
Northeastern Iowa; Contributions from the Na- 
tional Herbarium: CHARLES EH. BESSEY........- 937 
Unitéd States Geological Survey..........c00c.cccceeneeee 
Professor Virchow’s Jubilee......... 
Scientific Notes and News..........+ 
University and Educational News 
MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Profes- 
sor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
SIR WILLIAM DAWSON. 
Iy Sir William Dawson there has passed 
away the last survivor of that distinguished 
group of naturalists which in the earlier 
part of this century achieved for science in 
America such brilliant results and such 
widespread recognition—men whose range 
of knowledge was almost encyclopedic and 
many of whom made valuable contributions 
to science, in widely separated fields. The 
environment of the man of science has now 
changed and the older type of naturalist 
seems unfortunately about to disappear. 
Sir John William Dawson was a native 
of Nova Scotia, a province which has pro- 
duced more than its share of the Canadians 
who have risen to eminence in the various 
walks of life, having been born at Pictou on 
October 13, 1820. .He died at Montreal on 
November 19, 1899, at the age of 79. 
His father, James |\Dawson, was a native 
of Aberdeen Scotland, and came to Nova 
Scotia to fill a position in a leading business 
house in Pictou, and on the termination of 
his engagement began business there on his 
own account. 
While still at school in Pictou at the age 
of 12 he developed a love for natural 
science, inherited from his father, and 
made large collections of fossil plants from 
the Nova Scotia coal measures, so well ex- 
posed about his native place. He speaks 
of himself at that time as being a ‘‘ moder- 
ately diligent but not a specially brilliant 
