SCIENCE 
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: S. NEwcomsB, Mathematics; R. S. WoopDWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THuRSToN, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; 
J. Le Contx, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. MARSH, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 
C. Hart MErRRIAM, Zoology; S. H. ScupDER, Entomology; C. E. Bressry, N. L. BRITTON, 
Botany; Henry F. OsBorN, General Biology; C. S. Minor, Embryology, Histology; 
H. P. BownpitcH, Physiology; J. S. BILLIncs, Hygiene; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, 
Psychology; DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
FRIDAY, OcroBER 15, 1897. 
CONTENTS: 
Professor Flinders Petrie’s Scheme of an Ethnolog- 
ical Store-house: A. C. HADDON ...........0sces00s 565 
‘The Fur-seal Investigation of 1897: FE. A. 1........ 568 
A Botanical Excursion to Mexico: JoHN W. 
FVARSHBERGIER: «...0sccacoenessseeiaeceoreteescescsececeee 569 
Botany at the ‘American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science: FE. C. NEWCOMBE................+ 572 
Anthropology at the Toronto Meeting of the British 
Association: A. F, CHAMBERLAIN.........0...00+6 575 
‘Organic Selection: HENRY F. OSBORN, EDWARD 
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ANSOPDNGNGAL INOS8 1B, 18. TP conocnscacoansas oapoocaed 587 
Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. Li. H.......0.0000 588 
Scientific Notes and News :— 
The Spelling of Geographic Names: W.¥. Mor- 
SELL. The ‘Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse:’ R. H. 
T. The American Journal of Physiology ; General..588 
University and Educational News. .......0.c00sc0seenesens 593 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
The Easternmost Volcanoes of the United States ; 
Rost. T. Hu. Literary Embryology: CHARLES 
S. Minor. The ‘ Enchanted Mesa: Cuas. F. 
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Scientific Literature :— 
Ladd’s Philosophy of Knowledge: J. E. CREIGH- 
TON. Tarr’s Elementary Geology: BAILEY 
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MSS. intended for publication and books, ete., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 
McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
PROFESSOR FLINDERS PETRIE?S SCHEME OF 
AN ETHNOLOGICAL STORE-HOUSE. 
Or late years many scientific men have 
realized that the function of museums has 
been imperfectly understood. Some mu- 
seum officials still regard museums more in 
the light of cabinets of curiosities than as 
serious teaching institutions. There are 
two distinct ways of treating museums 
from the educational point of view ; these 
may briefly be described as the method of 
the text-book or the plan of dictionary; a 
combination of the two is always difficult 
and often impossible. 
To explain my meaning: The bulk of 
people go to a museum for intellectual 
amusement; they are interested in natural 
objects or in the works of man, and they visit 
the museum in a laudable spirit of curiosity 
and with a desire to receive instruction. 
What these people require is a compara- 
tively small number of objects suggestively 
arranged, with descriptive labels and ac- 
companied by carefully chosen drawings, 
photographs and maps. In a properly ar- 
ranged museum of this type it should be 
impossible for any intelligent visitor to 
leave it without having gained definite in- 
struction. This is what I venture to call 
the text-book museum. 
The more serious student, he who is seek- 
ing to advance knowledge, requires a very 
different type of museum. It is necessary 
that he should have access to a largenumber 
