SCIENCE 



FEroAT, Makch 17, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 The Basis and Object of Archeological Re- 

 search in Mexico and Adjoining Countries: 

 Professor Eduard Seler 397 



The Place of Research in Undergraduate 



Schools: Professor Percy Norton Evans 402 

 A Flea for Organized Research in the Trop- 

 ics: Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer 411 



Octave Chanute : James Means 416 



The African Entomological Research Com- 

 mittee 418 



Scientific Notes and News 419 



University and Educational News 421 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Soils and Crops: Professor Cteil G. Hop- 

 kins. Brownian Movements and Molecular 

 Reality: Colonel John Millis. Further 

 Early Notes on the Transmission by Flies 

 of the Disease called Yaws: DR. E. W. 

 GuDGER. A Theory of Sex Determination: 

 President David Starr Jordan 423 



The Antivivisectionists 429 



Scientific Books: — 



Elementary Biologies: Professor Max W. 

 Morse. Benedict and Joslin on Metabolism 

 in Diabetes Mellitus: Professor Graham 

 LUSK 430 



Scientific Journals and Articles 434 



Special Articles: — 

 Note on a Conglomerate Dike in Arizona: 

 Charles A. Stewart. Note Regarding 

 Maize Flowers: E. G. Montgomery 434 



The Indiana Academy of Science: A. J. 

 Bigney 435 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Washington Academy of Sciences: 

 Dr. W. J. Humphreys 436 



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

 review should be Best to the Editor of Scibkce, Garrison-on- 

 Hudsoa. N. Y. 



THE BASIS AND OBJECT OF ABCBEOLOO- 



IGAL RESEARCH IN MEXICO AND 



ADJOINING COUNTRIES^ 



By the mutual agreement between the 

 government of Mexico and other govern- 

 ments and scientific societies of Europe and 

 America, it has been decided to establish 

 an International School of American 

 Archeology and Ethnology in the City of 

 Mexico ; and as the honor of being the first 

 director of the school has fallen to my 

 share, I beg leave to place before this illus- 

 trious assembly the reasons which deter- 

 mined the patrons and protectors of the 

 school to found it, and to dwell a little 

 more fully on the ends that we hope to 

 achieve in this new institution. 



We call our school the "International 

 School of American Archeology and Eth- 

 nology;" that is to say, we wish to treat 

 two sciences, the importance of which is 

 more and more clearly recognized in our 

 day, and which are in reality sisters — for 

 what we call archeology is but a branch of 

 ethnology, from which it differs rather in 

 method than in aim. Archeology has 

 reached its highest development and 



* Inaugural address of the director at the open- 

 ing of the International School of American 

 Archeology and Ethnology in Mexico City on 

 January 20. Porfirio Diaz, president of the Mex- 

 ican republic, opened the school in the presence 

 of the ministers of state and public instruction 

 of the republic, of the ambassadors of countries 

 that participate in the establishment of the 

 school, and of many prominent citizens. After 

 the inaugural address by Professor Seler and an 

 address by Senor Ezequiel A. Chavez, subseeretary 

 of public instruction, who dwelt on the impor- 

 tance of international cooperation in the estab- 

 lishment of the school, the president declared the 

 school opened. 



