November 7, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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collegiate Athletics ' and the final article is a 

 reprint of Virchow's lecture in 1898 on ' Re- 

 cent Advances in Science, and their Bearing 

 on Medicine and Surgery.' In the November 

 number James E. Angell presents ' Some Re- 

 flections upon the Reaction from Coeduca- 

 tion,' the general tone of the article being 

 decidedly favorable to coeducation, and W. D. 

 Halliburton states ' The Present Position of 

 Chemical Physiology,' being one of the Presi- 

 dential addresses before the British Associa- 

 tion. ' Scientific Palmistry ' by Harris H. 

 Wilder is a plea for the use of impressions 

 of the palms and soles for the purposes of 

 identification. ' Towards the North Pole,' 

 reprinted from the London Times shows the 

 work that has been done, but impresses one 

 with the high latitudes reached by the early 

 navigators in their small vessels. Waldon 

 Pawcett describes ' The Development of Eco- 

 nomical Utilities for Handling Raw Material ' 

 and Frederick A. Woods presents the fourth 

 of his studies of ' Mental and Moral Heredity 

 in Royalty,' while David Starr Jordan tells 

 ' How to Collect Fishes,' an art with which 

 he has had long acquaintance. 



Bird Lore for September-October contains 

 ' The Destructive Efliects of a Hailstorm Upon 

 Bird Life ' by H. McI. Morton, ' A Goldfinch 

 Idyl ' by Ella Gilbert Ives, the three best lists 

 of birds observed by members of the Massa- 

 chusetts Audubon Society and the sixth in- 

 stalment of ' How to name the Birds ' by 

 Frank M. Chapman, besides Notes, Reviews 

 and reports of the Audubon Societies. From 

 this last it appears that there is to be a re- 

 vival in the use of birds in millinery and 

 that renewed efforts must be made by friends 

 of the birds. 



The Museums Journal of Great Britain 

 contains a description of the Oceanographic 

 Museum of the Prince of Monaco, reviews of 

 various museum reports and a large mamber 

 of notes on museums at home and abroad. 

 It also contains the fijst instalment of a 

 'Directory of the Museums of Great Britain 

 and Ireland,' which is intended to give a very 

 considerable amount of information concern- 

 ing each institution. 



In The American Naturalist for October 

 Bashford Dean considers the ' Historical Evi- 

 dence as to the Origin of the Paired Limbs 

 of Vertebrates,' concluding that this supports 

 the view that they are derived from a con- 

 tinuous lateral fold. D. H. Campbell gives 

 a su mm ary of ' Recent Investigations upon the 

 Embryo Sac of Angiosperms ' and Leonard 

 W. Williams describes ' The Vascular System 

 of the Common Squid, Loligo Pealii.' F. 

 M. Webster shows the importance of 'Winds 

 and Storms as Agents in the Diffusion of 

 Insects ' ; D. S. Jordan tells of ' The Colors 

 of Fishes,' not only the permanent colors, but 

 those temporarily assumed, and T. D. A. 

 Cockerell gives some notes on ' Flowers and 

 Insects in New Mexico.' This paper is likely 

 to prove a stumbling block to bibliographers 

 for it contains descriptions of several new 

 species of bees, although there is no hint of 

 this either in the title or introduction. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



The 358th meeting of the society was held 

 Saturday evening, October 28. 



Mr. W. H. Dall stated that in examining 

 some Corbiculas from Uruguay it was found 

 in several species that the females contained 

 a large number of young shells of various 

 ages ; some were developed so far as to show 

 traces of the radiating color markings which 

 characterize the adult. The palearctic Cor- 

 biculas have been abundantly collected and 

 described, but no record of their incubation 

 of the young in the maternal body appears in 

 the manuals or such works on the Corbieulidse 

 as he had been able to consult. It is probable, 

 therefore, that they do not retain the young 

 in this manner. If this inference be correct, 

 the separation by Fischer, on conchological 

 characters, of the South American species un- 

 der the name of Neocorhicula would receive 

 additional support from the difference indi- 

 cated. 



A similar discovery was also announced by 

 Mr. Dall in the common boreal shell known 

 as CarcUta (V enericardia) horealis, Conrad, 



