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, Pebeuaet 21, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 The AmerioOM Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Anthropology of California: Professor A. 

 L. Kroeber 281 



27(6 American Chemical Society and Section 

 C of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science: Dr. B. E. Curry .. 290 



Scientific Books: — 

 The History of Chemistry: Professor 

 Alexander Smith. Kuen^n on Die Zu- 

 standsgleichung der Case und Fliissigkeiten 

 und die Kontinuitdtstheorie : W. S. D. 

 Stevens's Plant Anatomy: Dr. M. A. 



Chrysler 303 



Scientific Journals and Articles 308 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 R. L. Paris. The Chemical Society of 

 Washington : J. A. LeClerc 309 



Discussion and Correspondence: — ■ 



Is Alabamornis a Bird? F. A. LucAS. 

 Cladodus compressus, a Correction: E. B. 

 Branson. The Term- " Therm " : Lewis 

 W. ~Fetzer 311 



Special Articles: — 



Notes on the Occurrence of the Recently 

 Described Gem Mineral, Benitoite: Ralph 

 Arnold 312 



Notes on Organic Chemistry :— 

 Keten: Professor J. Bishop Tingle 314 



The Ballons-Sondes at St. Louis: Professor 

 A. Lawrence Rotch 315 



Carl von Voit: Professor Graham Lusk .. 315 



Scientific Notes and Neics 316 



University and Educational News 320 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA'' 

 For many years California was among 

 the regions of North America of which 

 anthropologists knew least. The early 

 traveler touched it, the missionary occa- 

 sionally left a valuable but fragmentary 

 record, and the resident at times described 

 the native people who were thrown under 

 his observation. But the anthropologist 

 and the trained investigator sought other 

 fields of exploration, and the fact that ex- 

 tensive archeological collections had been 

 formed from one restricted region con- 

 tributed very little to a knowledge of the 

 general anthropology of the state. Of re- 

 cent years these conditions have been en- 

 tirely altered. Several institutions have 

 formed systematic collections or carried on 

 researches, until now the anthropology of 

 the region is nearly as well known as that 

 of most parts of the continent, and cer- 

 tainly presents less obscurities than some. 

 It seems fitting, therefore, to undertake at 

 this time a review of the principal results 

 of study, and of the new problems that 

 these results inevitably open up. It might 

 seem that the student of aboriginal people 

 should be little concerned with the arbi- 

 trary limits of a modern political division 

 such as the present state of California. 

 As a fact, however, these limits coincide 

 so nearly with the natural physiographical 

 and ethnographical boundaries, that the 

 artificiality of such a limitation, in an 

 ' Address of the retiring vice-president of Sec- 

 tion H of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, at the Chicago meeting, 

 1907-8. 



