SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeing, As- 

 tronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; E. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 J. Lb Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 

 Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Habt Meeeiam, Vertebrate Zoology ; S. H. Scuddeb, Entomology ; 

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

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

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



Friday, January 10, 1896. ALASKA AS IT WAS AND IS, 1865-1895. * 



— In 1864 the apparent hopelessness of the 



CONTENTS • attempts to establish a workable trans-At- 



., , ., -, . ^„^r ^„^^ Ttr TT T^ o„ lantic telegraph cable led those interested 



Alaska as it ^oas and is, 1865-1895 : W. H. Dall.. 37 b sf 



m telegraphic communication with Europe 



A Simpler Spectroscope: Holbrook Cushman ... 45 ^^ consider other means of attaining that 



Tlie Geological Society of America: J. F. Kemp ... 46 gj^j^ j^ ^^s thought that a short cable 



American Morphological Society 57 across Bering Strait might be made to work , 



Current Notes on Physiography :— and no doubt was entertained of the pOS- 



TopograpMcal 3Iap of Italy ; 3Iap of the German sibility of maintaining the enormously ex- 



^riliis^TZ"^!!'!^^^^^^^ 61 tended land lines which should connect the 



, „ , , ends of this cable with the systems already 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — . . . ^ , , "^ 



The Ethnology of .Madagascar ;Fre-glacial3Ian in ^^ Operation in Europe and the United 



England: D. G. Brinton 62 States. A company was formed for this 



Scientific Notes and Netos :— purpose, and an expedition to undertake 



Astronomical : H. J. Antarctic Exploration ; the explorations necessary to determine the 



^^'^" route was organized. The cooperation of 



Educational Neios 66 the Kussian and American governments 



was secured and the necessary funds sub- 



The Iheoryof P)-obahilities: Aethue E. BosT- qpT-ibprl Searchino- for nronerlv mini ified 



WICK. The Development of the Embryo of Pteris: scriDeci. oearcnmg lor properly quaiinea 



F. D. Kelsey. Line Drawings of Blue Print : explorers, the promoters of the enterprise 



L. H. Bailey 66 consulted the Smithsonian Institution and 



Scientific Literature:— ^ere brought into communication with 



Bonney's Charles Lyell and Modern Geology: Robert Kennicott of Ohicap-o a vnimo' and 



Bailey Willis. Die Gastropoden der Plankton -KODerr j^^ennicoti;, 01 unicago, a young ana 



Expedition : W. H. Dall. Campbell's Structure enthusiastic naturalist, who had already 



and Development of Mosses and Ferns: L. M. made some vemartablp ionrnPTjsi in tlip 



Underwood. Eisieen' s Molecules and the Molec- ™^"® ^"™® remarkaDie journeys m tne 



uiar Tlieory 68 Hudson Bay Territories in the interest of 



Scientific Journals : — science. His explorations had taken him 



American Chemical Journal : J. ELLIOTT GiL- to the most remote of the Hudson Bav 



PIN 73 



posts — Fort Yukon on the river of the same 



New Books 72 ,, . i- j ^-n ji.- 



name — regardless of every kind of hardship, 



MSS. intended for publication and books etc., intended 

 for review sliould be sent to the responsible editor, Prol. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, GarrisonHDn-Hudson, N. Y. 



* The annual presidential address, delivered be- 

 fore the Philosophical Society of Washington, De- 

 cember 6, 1895, by W. H. Dall. 



