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. 



Friday, April 27, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



Some Philological Aspects of Anthropological 

 Research : Professob Feanz Boas 641 



The Conditions of Admission to College: 

 Pbesident George E. MacLean 645 



Effective Protection for the Loister Fishery: 

 Pbofessoe Fbancis H. Herbick 650 



Scientific Books: — 



Philosophy and Mathematics at the Con- 

 gress of Arts and Science: Professob 

 Arthur 0. Lovejot. MacCurdy on the 

 EoUthic Proilem: Professob John C. 

 ;Mebeiam 655 



Scientific Journals and Articles 661 



Societies and Academies: — 



The National Academy of Sciences. Society 

 for Experimental Biology and Medicine: 

 Professob Wiixiam J. Gies. The Bio- 

 logical Society of Washington: M. C. 

 Mabsh 662 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Dr. 0. F. Cook's Conception of Evolution: 

 Dr. a. E. Ortmann. The Distribution of 

 Government Publications : Pbofessoe Cleve- 

 land Abbe. The Mental Development of 

 Individuals: Db. Edwin Xatjsch 667 



Special Articles: — 



Quarts Class: Db. Aethue L. Day, E. S. 

 Shepherd. Meteorological Phenomena on 

 Mountain Summits: S. P. Feegusson 670 



Quotations : — 



The California Universities 674 



The Congress of the United States 675 



The American Philosophical Society 675 



Scientific Notes and News 676 



University and Educational News 680 



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

 review should be sent to theEditor of Sciencb, Garriaon-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



SOME PHILOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AN- 

 THROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH.^ 



It is, perhaps, partly due to accident 

 that American anthropologists meet to-day, 

 for the first time, jointly with the Amer- 

 ican Philological Association and with the 

 Archeological Institute of America. Never- 

 theless, I welcome our joint meeting as a 

 significant fact, because it emphasizes the 

 growing feeling of anthropologists that our 

 science may profit from the methods devel- 

 oped by classical and oriental archeology, 

 and by the well-established methods of 

 philological and linguistic research. "We 

 hope that it may also express the growing 

 feeling among philologists and archeologists 

 of the importance of anthropological re- 

 search for their own studies. 



Our cooperation with your societies indi- 

 cates a radical change in the attitude of 

 students of anthropology. Up to the pres- 

 ent time we have affiliated with societies 

 representing the natural sciences and psy- 

 chology. This is due to the development 

 of modern anthropology under the stimulus 

 of the theory of evolution, and to the im- 

 portant incentives that it has taken from 

 the methods pursued by the natural sci- 

 ences. It has been the endeavor of anthro- 

 pologists to discover universal laws, like 

 the laws of physics and of chemistry. This 

 tendency has been somewhat modified by 

 the influence of those historical methods in 

 the biological sciences which endeavor to 



' Paper read at the joint meeting of the An- 

 thropological Association, the Archeological In- 

 stitute, and the Philological Association, at 

 Ithaca, N. Y., December 28, 1905. 



