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EDITORIAL Commitrre: S. NEwcoMB, Mathematics; R. S. WooDWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; 
J. LE ContE, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. MaRsH, Paleontology; W. K. 
Brooks, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. SCUDDER, Entomology; N. L. BRITTON, 
Botany; HENRY F. OsBoRN, General Biology; H. P. BowpitcH, Physiology; 
J. 8. BILLInes, Hygiene ; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology ; 
DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, Juny 9, 1897. 
CONTENTS: 
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On the Relative Variation and Correlation in Civilized 
and Unceivilized Races: ALICE LEE AND KARL 
Migration of Things and of Memories: O.T. MASON. 50 
Field Work of the United States Geological Survey... 51 
The Physical Society of London.........0.s.cecesereeeeeee 53 
Current Notes on Anthropology :— 
The Natives of the Philippines; Wampum and 
Stone Masks ; Native American Art Motives: D. 
(Gia LBTRIOS OR To ccoosdonsenbosobocnnocgnn9aucoD uoEodet ceqoE09 54 
Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : sees OO 
Scientific Notes and News...........0-csescseseeeecretenssens 56 
University and Educational News..............csss0se00 61 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
A Plea for ‘Scient:’ P.L.SCLATER. Sharpen- 
ing Microtome Knives: W.'T. SwWINGLE.......... 63 
Scientific Literature :— 
Geikie on The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain : 
C. E. Dutton. Trouessart’s Catalogus Mamma- 
lium tam viventium quam fossilium: C. H. M..... 64 
Societies and Academies :— 
The Chemical Society of Washington: V. K. 
CuEsnut. The Torrey Botanical Club: EDWARD 
S. BureEss. Science Club of the University of 
Wisconsin: WM. S. MARSHALL. Academy of 
Science of St. Lows: WM. TRELEASE. Texas 
Academy of Science: FREDERIC W. SIMONDS.... 69 
MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 
McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF INTERNAL SECRE- 
TIONS.* 
WE owe the term ‘internal secretions’ 
to Brown-Séquard,} by whom it was first 
used in published communications dating 
*Paper read at the 4th Triennial Session of the 
Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons. 
{ Brown-Séquard and d’Arsonyal: Comptes ren- 
dus de la Société de Biologie, 1891. 
from 1891. |The essential idea conveyed 
by the expression, however, is not new, as 
it has been stated more or less clearly by 
many previous writers in their speculations 
upon the probable functions of the so- 
called ductless or vascular glands. It had 
long been recognized that these glands pos- 
sess no excretory ducts, and that, there- 
fore, whatever secretion they may produce 
probably enters the blood either directly or 
by way of the lymph. Haller* is credited 
with stating this view with regard to the 
thyroid as early as 1776, and according to 
Pettitt a similar view was advanced by 
Schmidt in 1785 with regard to the su- 
prarenals. Toward the middle of the 
present century this belief was generally 
accepted for such glands as the thyroid, 
suprarenals, thymus, hypophysis cerebri 
and spleen, but as early as 1869 Brown- 
Séquard seems to have suggested the view 
that all glands, whether possessed of ex- 
eretory ducts or not, give off something to 
the blood thatis of importance in the gen- 
eral nutrition of the organism. From 1889 
his ideas took definite shape in numerous 
publications{ upon the physiological effects 
of injections of extracts of the testis. At 
first he did not use the term internal secre- 
*Jones in Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and 
Physiology : Article on Thyroid Gland. 
+ Pettit : Recherches sur les capsules surrén ales, 
1896—Paris. Thése de la Faculté des Sciences. 
{ Brown-Séquard: Archives de Physiologie nor- 
male et pathologique 1889-92. 
