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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 614. 



burg, one for the North Atlantic and Medi- 

 terranean, issued monthly, and one for the 

 North Sea and Baltic, issued quarterly. 



NOTES. 



An investigation into the Beaufort wind- 

 scale and its relation to measured wind veloci- 

 ties has been made in England, and the re- 

 sults are published in an official report (' Re- 

 port of the Director of the Meteorological 

 Office upon an Inquiry into the Relation be- 

 tween the Estimates of Wind-Force according 

 to Admiral Beaufort's Scale and the Veloci- 

 ties recorded by Anemometers belonging to 

 the Office,' London, 1906). 



R. DeC. Ward. 



CEREBRAL LOCALIZATION OF MUSICAL 

 TALENT. 



Dr. S. Auerbach has published an interest- 

 ing contribution^ to the cerebral localization 

 of the musical talent in a description of the 

 surface morphology of the brain of Professor 

 Naret Koning, late director of the opera in 

 Frankfurt a. M. The report includes a com- 

 parative study of the brain of the celebrated 

 composer Hans v. Biilow, for some time in 

 the possession of Professor Edinger, and of 

 brains of other eminent men, of known 

 musical talent, previously described. The 

 author finds in the considerable breadth and 

 configuration of the (supra)marginal gyre, as 

 well as the adjacent portion of the super- 

 temporal gyre, an expression of the greater 

 aptitude for the multitudinous associations 

 in the auditory sphere which distinguished 

 these persons from others less musical. The 

 author goes on to show that the corresponding 

 portions of the skull usually indicate this 

 redundancy. 



As has been urged frequently by cerebral 

 morphologists in America, contributions of 

 this kind make it highly desirable to secure 

 for comparison more brains of persons of 

 peculiar aptitudes in various lines of mental 

 activity. Not only the brains, but also the 



^ Archw fiir Anatomie und Physiologic, Anat- 

 omische Abteilung, 1906, pp. 197-230, Plates XII.- 

 XVII. 



skulls, head-casts and photographs taken in 

 accordance with approved anthropometric 

 methods are needed. The preservation of the 

 brain is requisite not only for macroscopic 

 study, but also for researches in the minute 

 structure of the redundantly developed re- 

 gions. Edw. Anthony Spitzka. 



GRANTS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BT 

 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



At the recent York meeting of the British 

 Association, as we learn frora Nature^ grants 

 of money appropriated for scientific purposes 

 by the general committee were : 

 Section A — Mathematical and Physical Science. 



£ s. d. 



Electrical Standards 50 



Seismological Observations 40 



Magnetic Observations at Falmouth ... 40 00 



Magnetic Survey of South Africa 25 7 6 



Further Tabulation of Bessel Functions 15 



Section B — Chemistry. 



Wave-length Tables of Spectra 10 



Study of Hydro-aromatic Substances ... 30 



Dynamic Isomerism 30 



Section C — Geology. 

 Life Zones in British Carboniferous 



Rocks 12 7 7 



Erratic Blocks 21 16 6 



Fossiliferous Drift Deposits 25 19 



Fauna and Flora of British Trias 10 



Crystalline Rocks of Anglesey 7 18 11 



Faunal Succession on the Carboniferous 



Limestone of S. W. England 15 



Correlation and Age of South African 



Strata, etc 10 



Investigation of the Speeton Beds at 



Knapton 10 



Section D — Zoology. 



Index Animalium 75 



Table at the Zoological Station at 



Naples 100 



Development of the Frog 5 14 6 



Respiratory Phenomena and Color 



Changes in Animals 11 2 



Experiments on the Development of the 



Sexual Cells 5 



Section E — Geography. 

 Oscillations of the Land Level in the 



Mediterranean Basin 50 



