SCIENCE 



Feiday, September 29, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 The British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: — 

 The Ethnological Analysis of Culture: De. 

 W. H. E. BiVERS 385 



The New Chestnut Bark Disease: I. C. 

 Williams 397 



The School of American Archeology 401 



Appropriations made for Scientific Purposes 

 at the Portsmouth Meeting of the British 

 Association 401 



Scientifio Notes and News 402 



University and Educational News 405 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



"Washiiigton Science": Washingtonian. 

 "Biology" : Dr. C. Stxjakt Gageb. House 

 Air: J. Y. Bekgen. Elementary Text- 

 books in Chemistry: De. B. A. Strong . . . 405 



Scientific Books: — 



Wood's Physical Optics: Peopessoe Heney 

 Ceew. The Atlas of Zoogeography : Wil- 

 fred H. Osgood. Von Eggeling 's Der Auf- 

 iau der Skeletteile: Professor C. E. Bae- 

 DEEN 409 



Scientific Journals and Articles 413 



Special Articles: — 



On some Conditions of Tissue Growth, espe- 

 cially in Culture Media: Dr. Leo Loeb. 

 An Interpolation Formula used in Calcula- 

 ting Temperature Coefficients for Velocity 

 of Vital Activities: Dr. Charles D. Sntdee 414 



MSS. intended fot publication and books, etc., intended Jor 

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOB THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



THE ETHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF 



CULTURE 1 



During the last few years great addi- 

 tions have been made to our store of the 

 facts of anthropology — we have learned 

 much about different peoples scattered over 

 the earth and we understand better how 

 they act and think. At the same time we 

 have, I hope, made a very decided advance 

 in our knowledge of the methods by means 

 of which these facts are to be collected, so 

 that they may rank in clearness and trust- 

 worthiness with the facts of other sciences. 

 When, however, we turn to the theoretical 

 side of our subject, it is difficult to see any 

 corresponding advance. The main prob- 

 lems of the history of human society are 

 little, if at all, nearer their solution, and 

 there are even matters which a few years 

 ago were regarded as settled which are to- 

 day as uncertain as ever. The reason for 

 this is not far to seek ; it is that we have no 

 general agreement about the fundamental 

 principles upon which the theoretical work 

 of our science is to be conducted. 



In surveying the different schools of 

 thought which guide theoretical work on 

 human culture, a very striking fact at once 

 presents itself. In other and more ad- 

 vanced sciences the guiding principles of 

 the workers of different nations are the 

 same. The zoologists or botanists of 

 France, Germany, America, our own and 

 other countries, are on common ground. 

 They have in general the same principles 

 and the same methods, and the work of all 



" Address of the president to the Anthropolog- 

 ical Section. Portsmouth, 1911. 



