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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 577. 



E. V. Huntington : ' Note on the Fundamental 

 Propositions of Algebra' (preliminary communi- 

 cation ) . 



C. J. Keysek : ' Concerning a Self- reciprocal 

 Plane Geometry.' 



C. L. E. MooEE : ' Geometry of Circles Orthog- 

 onal to a Given Sphere.' 



Edward Kasner : ' Inva,riants of Differential 

 Elements for Arbitrary Point Transformation.' 



A. B. Frizell: 'A Method of Building up the 

 Fundamental Operation Groups of Arithmetic' 



G. A. Bliss: 'A Proof of the Fundamental 

 Theorem of Analysis Situs.' 



0. P. Akers : ' On the Congruence of Axes in a 

 Bundle of Linear Line Complexes.' 



Peter Field : ' Note on Certain Groups of 

 Transformations of the Plane into Itself.' 



George Peiece: 'On a New Approximate Con- 

 struction for IT.' 



Max Mason : ' Curves of Minimum Moment of 

 Inertia.' 



A. G. Webster: 'Application of a Definite 

 Integral with Bessel's Functions to the Self-induc- 

 tion of a Solenoid.' 



J. E. Weight : ' Correspondence and the Theory 

 of Continuous Groups.' 



J. E. Wright : ' An Application of the Differ- 

 ential Invariants of Space.' 



Clara E. Smith: 'Abel's Theorem and its Ap- 

 plication to the Development of an Arbitrary 

 Function in Terms of Bessel's Functions.' , 



V. F. Bjerknes ; ' Experimental Demonstration 

 of Hydrodynaniic Action at a Distance.' 



R. P. Stephens : ' On the Pentadeltoid.' 



M. I. PupiN: 'Establishment of a Steady State 

 in a Sectional Wave Conductor.' 



J. J. Quinn: 'A Linkage for the Kinematic 

 Description of a Cissoid.' 



The Chicago Section held its eighteenth 

 regular meeting at the University of Chi- 

 cago, December 29-30. The San Francisco 

 Section will meet at Stanford University 

 on February 24. The next regular meet- 

 ing of the society will be held at Columbia 

 University, February 24. The summer 

 meeting, together with a colloquium, will 

 be held at Yale University in August. 



F. N. Cole, 

 4,, Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS. 

 Publications of the Jesup North Pacific Ex- 

 pedition. (Memoir of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York.) 

 Leiden, E. J. Brill, Ltd.; New York, G. E. 

 Stechert & Co. 



The continuation of the publications of the 

 Jesup North Pacific Expedition appears, after 

 an interval of several years, published by E. J. 

 Brill, Leiden. The following notice of the 

 publications issued during the year 1905 is 

 written by the editor of the series, and for 

 this reason contains only a brief statement 

 of the contents of the volumes. 

 'Vol. TIL, Part IIL, Kwahiutl Texts. By 

 Franz Boas and George Hunt. 

 This number closes the volume containing 

 the Kwakiutl texts recorded by George Hunt, 

 and revised and edited by Franz Boas. The 

 material in this volume has been arranged 

 according to tribes of the Kwakiutl, begin- 

 ning with the extreme south, and proceeding 

 northward. The first text in the series is 

 given in interlinear translation ; while all the 

 others are given in parallel columns, Indian 

 and English. At the end of the volume is 

 given a brief abstract of the traditions, which 

 are intended to enable the reader to inform 

 himself regarding the contents of the volume 

 without reading the full texts. The abstracts 

 are provided with page references, which 

 facilitate the finding of any particular pas- 

 sage. An appendix to the volume contains 

 lists of stem words and sufSxes, by means of 

 which the philological use of the text is 

 facilitated. 



The present volume contains almost entirely 

 traditions relating to the ceremonies and 

 families of the Kwakiutl Indians, and illus- 

 trates the exuberance of legends of this char- 

 acter that have developed among this tribe. 

 In character and contents, these traditions are 

 remarkably uniform. They resemble the tra- 

 ditions of the northern parts of the North 

 Pacific coast, and account for the privileges 

 of the different families and tribes of the 

 Kwakiutl. 



The language is probably, on the whole, 

 accurate. . Mr. Hunt, the recorder, speaks 

 Kwadiiutl as his own mother tongue, and has 



