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SCIENCE. 



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marked increase in the number of commu- 

 nications relating both to foreign lands and 

 to the Americas. 



The nature of the work under review is 

 such as to render mathematical exactness 

 impossible. I have endeavored to make 

 the foregoing averages approximate the 

 truth, and believe they can be relied upon 

 to show that American anthropologists 

 have been working in relatively greater iso- 

 lation than have European anthropolo- 

 gists. 



The cosmopolitan character of the pro- 

 grams of the several associations in ques- 

 tion is found to be in direct ratio, not only 

 to the area of the colonies and dependen- 

 cies of the several countries, but also to 

 the tonnage of their merchant marine en- 

 gaged especially in the foreign trade. 

 The anthropologist's horizon is constantly 

 under limitations imposed by his govern- 

 ment's colonial or. commercial policy. 



With colonies and protectorates beyond 

 the confines of Europe aggregating over 

 11,000,000 square miles in extent, includ- 

 ing India, and with a merchant marine en- 

 gaged exclusively in the foreign trade, 

 much larger than that of any other country 

 (8,043,860 tons in 1899), open especially 

 to them, the English anthropologists are 

 brought into contact with foreign problems 

 at so many points, it would be strange in- 

 deed did they not improve the opportuni- 

 ties thus afforded. 



The colonies and dependencies of Prance 

 cover an area (1901) of 3,740,000 square 

 miles, with a population of 56,000,000. 

 The area of German colonies and depend- 

 encies amounts to 1,027,120 square miles 

 with a population of 14,687,000. 



The United States became a ' world 

 power ' only three years ago. Enough 

 time has not elapsed to show the influence 

 of that step on the programs of Section H, 

 but if we expand along with our opportuni- 



ties, it is safe to say that an analysis of the 

 work we shall do in the next twenty years 

 \^dll show different results from that of 

 our record for the epoch just closed. 



We may not be able to improve much on 

 the quality or even the quantity, but, with 

 an enlarged horizon, the work should be- 

 come less and less local and fragmentary. 

 1 believe we are at the threshold of a new 

 epoch in which the many interdependent 

 and partially solved problems of the past 

 shall be completed and thereby make pos- 

 sible vast progress in correlative and syn- 

 thetic anthropology. 



George Grant MacCukdy. 



Mew Haven, Connecticut. 



COLLEGE WORK FOR AGRICULTURISTS. 



Authentic information regarding the 

 progress made in the State of New York 

 in the promotion of scientifie methods in 

 agi'iculture and the part taken by science 

 and scientific men in their advancement 

 has often been sought, and yet we rarely 

 find a clear statement of the extensive work 

 ^v•hieh has been clone and is still being car- 

 ried on in aid of scientific and intensive 

 agriculture. The extent of this work is 

 enormous and its value to the state is vast- 

 ly more than proportionally valuable. It 

 is mainly performed at the experiment sta- 

 tion, and in the university extension work, 

 of the College of Agriculture of the ' Land 

 Grant College ' of the state, at Ithaca, and 

 at the experiment station at Geneva. A 

 recent statement by the president of Cor- 

 nell University is the first which has given 

 us a concise, yet definite and satisfying, 

 account of this work. We abstract the 

 I'rineipal parts of this statement : 



"By the Morrill Act of July 2, 1862, 

 Congress enacted that there should be 

 granted to the several states certain 

 amounts of public land, from the sale of 

 which there should be established a per- 



