July 6, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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At Westbrook Seminary, a private city school, 

 the athletes are slightly below the others. At 

 Hebron Academy, the largest in Maine, the 

 athletes, for a period, of three years, fell five 

 per cent, below the non-athletes. In all the 

 secondary schools for which I have trust- 

 worthy records, the athletes fall lower, but 

 never more than five per cent, lower, than 

 other students. 



These facts regarding the relative scholar- 

 ship of athletes and non-athletes cover the 

 records of about two thousand students in six 

 institutions for five years. The facts were 

 gathered by twenty men of varied opinions on 

 the question, who were not endeavoring to 

 make the figures prove any theory or support 

 any opinion. So far as the facts go, they are 

 authentic. They overthrow two thirds of the 

 a priori assumptions regarding the excessive 

 injury of intercollegiate games to the scholar- 

 ship of the men who play. 



William Trufant Foster. 

 BowDoiN College, 

 Bkunswick, Maine. 



note on the ypsiloid apparatus of 

 cryptobranchus. 

 A DESCRIPTION of this Cartilage in a recent 

 article by Whipple (' The Ypsiloid Apparatus 

 of Urodeles,' Biol Bull, May, 1906) differs 

 radically from the description by Reese (' The 

 Anatomy of CryptoTjranchus / American Nat- 

 uralist, April, 1906). According to Whipple 

 the cartilage has the typical Y-shape common 

 to urodeles, being bifurcated at the anterior 

 end; according to Reese it is rod-shaped. 

 Having an abundance of material at my dis- 

 posal, I examined this apparatus in a number 

 of specimens. In every case the cartilage is 

 Y-shaped, but with a marked difference in the 

 structure of the anterior and posterior regions : 

 the posterior portion, forming the stem of the 

 Y, consists of a stout rod of cartilage; the 

 expanded V-shaped anterior portion is very 

 thin. In a dry preparation this thin expanded 

 anterior portion would probably shrivel up 

 and might be easily detached and hence over- 

 looked; the remaining portion would then 

 answer the description given by Reese. It is 



evident that in its entirety this apparatus has 

 the typical urodele form. 



B. G. Smith. 

 Zoological Laboeatory, 

 University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



a newly-found stony meteorite. 

 The writer has received notice from a cor- 

 respondent in Alabama of the finding, near 

 Selma, in that state, of a heretofore unde- 

 scribed meteorite. The mass is reported as 

 weighing upwards of 300 pounds, and is of 

 Brezina's kugel chondrite type, much resem- 

 bling the well-known stone from Tieschitz, in 

 Moravia. It will be known as the Selma, 

 Alabama, stone. A detailed description will 

 be published later. 



Geo. p. Merrill. 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 

 THE GREAT CATALOGUE AND SCIENTIFIC INVESTI- 

 GATION OF THE HEBER R. BISHOP 

 COLLECTION OF JADE.^ 



Three years ago, on January 3, 1903, 

 it was my sad duty to read before this section 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, at its meeting in Washing- 

 ton, a notice of the death of Mr. Heber R. 

 Bishop, accompanied by a brief description of 

 his remarkable collection of jade objects (see 

 Amer. Anthropologist, N. S., Vol. 5, January- 

 March, 1903, pp. 111-117). See also the 

 Metropolitan Museum Bulletin for May, 1900.^ 



Since that time this magnificent collection, 

 which was presented by Mr. Bishop during his 

 lifetime to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

 in New York, has been arranged and installed. 

 He made a large donation for this purpose, 

 and had had prepared and fitted up for its 

 suitable exhibition the northeast room on the 

 second floor of the new wing of the museum 



^ Read before the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, New Orleans meeting, 

 December 31, 1905. 



" See the printed catalogue of the Heber R. 

 Bishop Collection of Jade. By George F. Kunz. 

 Occasional Notes No. 2, Bull. Metropolitan Mu- 

 seum of Art, May, 1906, pp. 1-8. 8vo. Three 

 illustrations. 



