SCIENCE 



Editokial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodwakd, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. ThuesiIon, Engineering; Ira Remsen, Cliemistry; 



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



Beooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology; N. L. Beitton, 



Botany; Henry F. Osborn, General Biology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



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



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



G. Beown Goode, Scientific Organization. 



Friday, May 1, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



Annual Sleeting of the National Academy of SciencesSib 



Geologic Atlas of the United States 647 



International Cloud Observations : F. H. Bigelow..653 



Notes on Native Sulphur in Texas : E. A. Smith. ..657 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



The Adirondack Mountains and Valleys; Topo- 

 graphic Forms Produced by Faulting ; The Baltic 

 Sea; 'Shut-in' Valleys: W. M. Davis 659 



Current Notes on Meteorology : Egbert DeC. "Ward. .661 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 Elementary Psychical Concepts ; Pathology in Eth- 

 nology : The Anthropologic Study of Personality : 

 D. G. Beinton 663 



Scientific Notes and Neios : — 



The International Catalogue of Science ; Exhibition 

 of the New York Microscopical Society ; Bulletins 

 of the Division of Entomology ; General 664 



University and Educational News 667 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



T/ie Material and the Efficient Causes of Evolution : 

 J. McKeen Cattell. Instinct: J. Mark 

 Baldwin. Studies in the Moral Development of 

 Children: J. F. MoESE 668 



Scientific Literature : — 



Scudder's Frail Children of the Air : A. S. P. 

 Report of the Neio York State Colonization Society: 

 W J McGee 671 



Scientific Journals : — • 



The American Journal of Science ; The American 

 Chemical Journal; The Journal of Comparative 

 Neurology 673 



Societies and Academies : — 



T!ie New York Academy of Sciences : J. F. Kemp. 

 Biological Society of Washington : F. A. Lucas. 

 The Entomological Society of Washington: L. O. 

 Howard. New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society : Durand Woodman. Har- 

 vard Geological Conference : T. A. Jaggar, Je. 

 The Academy of Science of St. Louis : William 

 Trelbase 676 



New Books 680 



MSS. intended for publication and books etc., intended 

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

 McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



ANNUAL MEETING OF TSE NATIONAL ACAD- 

 EMY OF SCIENCES. 



The annual meeting of the Academy was 

 held in Washington on April 20, 21, 22, 23 

 and 25, Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, President, in 

 the chair. Theibllowing members were pre- 

 sent : Cleveland Abbe, Washington ; Carl 

 Barus, Providence ; A. Graham Bell, Wash- 

 ington ; John S. Billings, U. S. N. ; Lewis 

 Boss, Albany ; Henry P. Bowditch, Boston ; 

 W. H. Brewer, New Haven ; W. K. Brooks, 

 Baltimore ; E. D. Cope, Philadelphia ; S. 

 F. Emmons, Washington; Wolcott Gibbs, 

 ISTewport ; G. K. Gilbert, Washington ; 

 Theodore N. Gill, Washington ; G. Brown 

 Goode, Washington ; B. A. Gould, Cam- 

 bridge ; Arnold Hague, Washington ; Asaph 

 Hall, Washington ; C. S. Hastings, New 

 Haven ; G. W. Hill, West Nyack, N. Y. ; 

 Alpheus Hyatt, Boston ; O. C. Marsh, 

 New Haven ; A. M. Mayer, Hoboken, N. J.; 

 E. Mayo-Smith, New York ; T. C. Menden-. 

 hall, Worcester, Mass.; A. A. Michelson, 

 Chicago ; E. S. Morse, Salem ; J. W. 

 Powell, Washington ; F. W. Putnam, Cam- 

 bridge ; Ira Eemsen, Baltimore ; W. A. 

 Eogers, Waterville, Me.; Ogden N. Rood, 

 New York ; H. A. Rowland, Baltimore . 

 Charles S. Sargent, Cambridge ; Charles A. 

 Schott, Washington ; Samuel H. Scudder, 

 Cambridge ; William Sellers, Philadelphia ; 

 A. E. Verrill, New Haven ; Francis A. 

 Walker, Boston ; W. H. Welch, Baltimore ; 

 Charles A. White, Washington; A. W 



