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. 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering,, 

 Astronomy ; T. C. Mendbnhall, Physics ; K. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ika Rkmsen, Chemistry ; 

 Charles D. Walcott, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osboen, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessky, N. L. Britton, Botany ; C. S. MiNOT, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

 ditch, Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, Pathol- 

 ogy ; J. McKebn Catiell, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, August 8, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section H, Anthropology: Haklan I. 



Smith 201 



The North Carolina Section of the American 



Chemical. Society : C. B, Williams 212 



Blue Fox Trapping on the Pribilof Islands: 



Walter I. Lbmbkey, F. A. Lucas 216 



Scientific Books: — 



Recent Books on Hygiene: De. George M. 



KOBER 218 



Scientific Journals and Articles 227 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



So-called Species and Subspecies: Hubert 

 Lyman Clark. Leland Stamford Junior 

 University: Peofessor Alfred C. Had- 



DON 229 



Shorter Articles : — 



Stratigraphy versus Paleontology in Nova 

 Scotia: David White. Preliminary Stud- 

 ies on the Btists of the Asparagus and the 



Carna tion : John L. Sheldon 232 



Chemical Industry in Germany in 1901 237 



Scientific Notes and News 238 



University and Educational Neics 240 



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

 for review should be sent to tlie responsible editor, Pro- 

 fessor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. SECTION - 

 H— ANTHROPOLOGY. 



During the period of the fifty-first meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science at Pittsburgh, 

 June 28 to July 3, 1902, there was held the 

 founding meeting of the American Anthro- 

 pological Association. This gave a double 

 impulse for the attendance at the meeting 

 of the anthropologists of the country, in- 

 eluding those of Section H, and consequent- 

 ly there were present at the sessions of 

 Section H many of the foremost anthro- 

 pologists, whose interest was sustained un- 

 til the close of the session. 



Section H was organized, in the audience 

 room of Bellefield Church, on Monday 

 morning, June 30, immediately after the 

 adjournment of the general session, and,_ 

 with two later mentioned exceptions, held 

 all of its sessions in the same place. The 

 offleers for the meeting were as follows : 



Vice-President, Stewart Culin. 



Secretary, Harlan I. Smith. 



Member of Council, W J McGee. 



Sectional Committee, J. Walter Fewkes, vice- 

 president Section H, 1901; George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, secretary Section H, 1901 ; Stewart Culin,. 

 vice-president Section H, 1902; Harlan I. Smith, 

 secretary Section H, 1902; Franz Boas, George 

 A. Dorsey, William H. Holmes. 



Member of General Committee, Walter Hough. 



During the meeting the following mem- 

 bers interested in anthropology were elected 



