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SCIENCE 



Friday, October 9, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 A Study of Primitive Character: Sir Everaed 

 IM Thuen 495 



George Marograve: De. E. W. Gudgee .... 507 



The Effects of the Katmai Eruption on Marine 

 Vegetation: George B. Eigg 509 



The Effect of Lightning on a Reinforced Con- 

 crete and Steel Dome: Peofessoe C. D. 

 Perrine 513 



Scientific Notes and News .' 514 



University and Educational News 518 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



An Experiment on Killing Tree Scale by 

 Poisoning the Sap of the Tree: Peoeessor 

 Fernando Saneord. Laboratory Cultures 

 of Amoeba: N. M. Geier. The Origin, of 

 Mutation: XY. Plea for a Statue in Wash- 

 ington to Professor Spencer Fullerton 



. Baird: Dr. R. W. Shueeldt. Belgian 

 Professors and Scholars: Promssoe Edwin 

 B. Frost 519 



Scientific Books : — 

 Smith on the Middle Triassio Marine In- 

 vertebrate Faunas of North America: Dr. 

 W. H. Ball. Verrill on the Shallow-water 

 Starfishes of the. North Pacific Coast: Dr. 

 Hubert Lyman Claek. Cox and Arming- 

 ton on the Weather and Cli/mate of Chicago : 

 Peofessoe Alexander McAdie 522 



Special Articles : — 



The Pood Habits of the Short-tailed Shrew : 

 H. L. Babcock. The Limit of Uniformity 

 in the Grading of College Students by Dif- 

 ferent Teachers: Dr. Max Meyer 526 



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

 revieTV sbould be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Ga 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



ADDMESS OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE 

 ANTHBOPOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE 

 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOB THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE! 

 A STUDY OF PRIMITIVE CHARACTER 



Civilization and "savagery" — for un- 

 fortunately it seems now too late to substi- 

 tute any term of less misleading sugges- 

 tion for that word "savagery" — are the 

 labels which we civilized folk apply respec- 

 tively to two forms of human culture ap- 

 parently so unlike that it is hard to con- 

 ceive that they had a common origin — our 

 own culture and that other, the most 

 primitive form of human culture, from 

 which, at some unknown and distant period, 

 our own diverged. But, assuming one 

 common origin for the whole human race, 

 we anthropologists can but assume that at 

 an early stage in the history of that race 

 some new idea was implanted in a part of 

 these folk, that is in the ancestors of civil- 

 ized folk which caused these thenceforth 

 to advance continuously, doubtless by 

 many again subsequently diverging and 

 often intercrossing roads, some doubtless 

 more rapidly than others, but all mainly 

 towards that which is called civilization, 

 while those others, those whom we call 

 "savages," were left behind at that first 

 parting of the ways, to stumble blindly, 

 advancing indeed after a fashion of their 

 own, but comparatively slowly and in a 

 quite different direction. 



It is easy enough for civilized folk, when 

 after age-long separation they again come 

 across the "savages,"' to discern the exist- 

 ence of wide differences between the two, 

 in physical and mental characteristics, and 



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