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. 



Feidat, April 29, 1904. 



CONTENTS: 

 The Northeast Coast of Branil in Ancient 

 Cartography : De. Oeville A. Derby 681 



Scientific Books: — 



Gould's Biographic Clinics: De. Solomon 

 SoLis Cohen 694 



Scientific Journals and Articles 697 



Societies and Academies: — 



The National Academy of Sciences; New 

 Yorh Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety: De. H. C. Sheeman. The Anthropo- 

 logical Society of Washington: De. Waltee 

 Hough. The Biological Society of Washing- 

 ton: Wilfeed H. Osgood 698 



Discussion and Correspondence; — 



The Titles of Papers: Peofessoe Charles 

 Baskerville, F. a. B. Marginal and Ridge 

 Scales in Cephalaspis and Drepanaspis : De. 

 C. R. Eastman 702 



Special Articles: — 



On the Feasihility of measuring Tides and 

 Currents at Sea: K. A. Haeeis. Sex Dif- 

 ferences in the Sense of Time: Professor 

 Robert MacDougall 704 



The National Physical Laboratory 708 



Tlie Bermuda Biological Station for Research: 

 Professor E. L. Mark and Professor C. 

 L. Bristol 709 



Scientific Notes and Netos 711 



University and Educational News 712 



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

 for review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE NORTHEAST COAST OF BRAZIL IN 

 ANCIENT CARTOGRAPHY* 



The publication of the great atlas con- 

 .taining reproductions of almost all the 

 known old maps of Brazil that accompanies 

 the exposition of the Brazilian representa- 

 tive, Baron Rio Branco, to the arbitrator in 

 the question of the limits of Guyana, makes 

 possible, for the first time in Brazil, the 

 study of the ancient cartography of that 

 country. Having applied myself to this 

 study in a recent paper entitled 'Os Map- 

 pas mais antigos do Brasil' published in 

 Vol. VII. of the Eevista do Instituto Eis- 

 torico de 83,0 Paulo, I verified the possi- 

 bility of amplifying and correcting the 

 scanty written documents relative to the 

 first epoch. of Brazilian history, and being 

 invited by Baron Studart to contribute to 

 the commemoration of the first settlement 

 of the state of Ceara, it seemed to me that 

 I could best respond to his intentions 

 by making a similar study of the portion 

 of the coast to which that state belongs. 

 Both geographically and historically this 

 portion is limited on the south by Cape 

 Santo Agostinho and on the north by the 

 mouth of the Amazonas, and to this section 

 the present study will be exclusively de- 

 voted. 



In the above-mentioned paper I treated 

 summarily of this section in the analysis 

 of the map of Juan de la Cosa of 1500 in 

 which it was for the first time represented 

 on the basis of the data furnished by the 

 explorations of Vicente Tanez Pinzon and 



* Translated from the memorial volume of the 

 tricentennial of the state of CearSj Brazil. 



