SCIENCE 



Ediioeial Comjiittee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. ThuesIton, Engineering; Ira Eemsen, Chemistry; 



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



Brooks, C. Hart Meeeiam, Zoology; S. H. Scudder, Entomology; N. L. Beitton, 



Botany ; Hexey F. Osboen, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology ; 



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



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



G. Brown Goode, Scientific Organization. 



Friday, June 26, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



Fishes, Living and Fossil: Theo. Gill 909 



Food of the European Book ( Corvus frngilegus ) : 

 F. E. L. Beal 918 



An Investigation loitli Sontgcn Bays on Germinating 

 Plants: H. J. "Webber 919 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 

 Great Valley of California; Norwegian Coast Plain ; 

 Equatorial Counter Currents ; Planetary and Ter- 

 restrial Currents: W. M. Davis 920 



Cm-rent Notes on Meteorology : — 



The Climatology of Maryland; Sleteorological Ob- 

 servations in Sehools ; Other Noteworthy Publica- 

 tions: E. Dec. Ward 922 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



Astronomy: H. J. Honey Ants: L. O. H. 

 Contributions from the Missouri Botanical Garden ; 

 General 922 



University and Educational News 927 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



TJie Application of Sex Terms to Plants : Charles 

 E. Bakxes 928 



Scientific Literature : — 

 Livi's Antropometria Militare ; Franz Boas. 

 Crocker's Electric Lighting : A. S. Kimball. 

 Nehrling's Native Birds of Song and Beauty; 

 Hahn's Die Haustiere: C. H. M. Tlie Gypsy 

 Moth: L. O. Howard 929 



Societies and Academies : — 



Biological Society of Washington : F. A. LucAS. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: 

 Edw. J. Nolan. The New York Section of the 

 American Chemical Society: Dueand Wood- 

 man. Ttie Torrey Botanical Club: W. A. Bas- 

 TEDO. Kansas University Science Club 934 



Neio Books 936 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 

 for reyiew should be sent to the responsible editor. Prof. J. 

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



FISHES, LIVINQ.AND FOSSIL. 

 A TEXT-BOOK of Ichthyology embodying 

 the results of recent investigation and tak- 

 ing cognizance of both living and extinct 

 forms has long been a desideratum. Dr. 

 Giinther's ' Introduction to the Study of 

 Fishes ' (18S0) did not at all represent the 

 condition of ichthyology even at the time 

 of its original publication, and the German 

 translation (1886) was scarcely more than a 

 repi'oduction, in another language, of the 

 original work and retained almost all its 

 numerous defects and errors. Those de- 

 fects and errors were especially manifest 

 in the treatment of the extinct forms. The 

 increase in our knowledge of past types, 

 too, has been very great within the last 

 decade, owing to the labors of Mr. Smith 

 Woodward, Prof. Cope and others. The 

 desideratum indicated, to a certain limited 

 extent, has been supplied so far as the ' fos- 

 sil ' fishes are concerned, in a recent work, 

 by Dr. Dean, of N'ew York, entitled ' Fishes, 

 Living and Fossil.' * But it is not, as the 

 author confesses, an elaborate introduction 

 to ichthyology ; its ' object is to enable the 

 reader to obtain a convenient review of the 

 most important forms of fishes and of their 

 structural and developmental characters ' 

 * Fishes, Living and Fossil. An outline of their 

 forms and probable relationships. By Bashford Dean, 

 Ph. D., Instructor in Biology, Columbia College, 

 New York City.— New York: Maomillan & Co. 1895. 

 (Columbia University Biological Series III. — Svo, 

 xiv, 300 pp. ) 



