SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, October 5, 1906. 



CONTEIfTS. 



Fifteenth International Congress of Ameri- 

 canists 417 



The American Mathematical Society: Peo- 

 TESSOB F. N. Cole 420 



The Edinburgh Museum: Dk. L. P. Gbatacap 422 



Israel Cook Russell: Pbofessor Waeren P. 

 Lombard, Martin L. D'Ooge 426 



Scientific Books: — 



Binet's Revelations de V4criture d'apres 

 un controle scientifique : Dr. Persifor 

 Frazer. Genera Avium: Harry C. Ober- 

 holser 431 



Scientific Journals and Articles 439 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Stephens's California Mammals: President 

 David Stabr Jordan. An Ignored Theory 

 of the Ice Age: Da. J. M. Schaeberle. 

 Non-Euclidean Geometry: Dr. I. E. Rabino- 

 viTCH 439 



Special Articles: — 



Inheritance of Color Coat in Sunne: Dr. 

 W. J. Spillman 441 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



Vagaries of Lightning ; African Huts on 

 Poles to escape Mosquitoes ; Pilot Charts; 

 Notes: Professor R. DeC. Ward 443 



Cerebral Localization of Musical Talent: Dr. 

 Edw. Anthony Spitzka 444 



Grants for Scientific Research by the British 

 Association 444 



The Silliman Lectures at Tale University. .. 445 



Honorary Degrees at Harvard University . . . . 445 



Scientific Notes and News 446 



University and Educational News 448 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 

 OF AMERICANISTS. 



The Fifteenth International Congress of 

 Americanists was held at Quebec, Septem- 

 ber 10 to September 15. While the num- 

 ber of students of early American history 

 and of American ethnology in attendance 

 was not large, the papers presented were 

 of great value, and the local interest in 

 the proceedings was considerable. The 

 congress had an individuality of its own, 

 being attended by many missionaries from 

 all parts of Canada, who contributed to 

 the proceedings reports on the tribes among 

 whom they are laboring; while South 

 Am-eriea and Central America, which gen- 

 erally occupy by far the greatest parts in 

 the proceedings of the congress, were not 

 so strongly represented. 



Delegates to the congress were sent by 

 England, which was represented by Dr. 

 A. C. Haddon and Dr. D. Randall Mclver. 

 France sent Professor Leon Lejeal and 

 Comte de Perigny. From Germany, Pro- 

 fessor and Mrs. Eduard Seler and Dr. Paul 

 Ehrenreich were present. Mexico was rep- 

 resented by Senor Leopoldo Batres and 

 Seiior Santiago Sierra. Unfortunately 

 the representation from the United States 

 was not as good as it should have been. 

 Harvard University and Yale University 

 hr.d sent full delegations, but the number 

 of anthropologists from New York and 

 from Washington was small. No anthro- 

 pologists from Chicago or from San Fran- 

 cisco were in attendance. The local in- 

 terest in the congress was Avell sustained. 



