SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeing, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendknhall, Physics; E. H. Thueston, Engineering; lEA Remsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 



C. Haet Meeeiam, Zoology; S. H. Souddee, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. Beitton, 



Botany; Heney F. Osboen, General Biology; C. S. MiNOT, Emhryology, Histology; 



H. P. BowDiTCH, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene; J. McKeen Cattell, 



Psychology; Daniel G. Beinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, July 8, 1898. 



CONTENTS: 



Natural History 31usemns (/) ,• L. P. GEATACAP...29 



Anthropological Exhibit of the U. S. National Museum 

 at the Omaha Exposition : De. W. H. Holmes... 37 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



The Lakes of France ; Lakes of the Austrian A Ips ; 

 The Loi Nor Controversy ; Lake 3Ieiidota : Peo- 

 fessob W. M.Davis 40 



Current Notes on 31eteorology : — 

 Climatic Control of Transportation in NoriJiern Biis- 

 sia; Kite Meteorology in the Antarctic ; Aitroras 

 in London from 1707 to 1S95 : E. DeC. Waed.. 42 



Owrrent Notes on Anthropology :^ 



The ArcJueoh/gy of Guerrero; The Quiche Lan- 

 guage: Pbofessoe D. G. Bkinton 42 



Sdentiflc Notes and News : — 



Important Vertebrate Fossils for the National Mu- 

 seum ; Professsor Koch on Malaria ; Bibliograph- 

 ical Data for the Title-pages of Books : General 43 



' and Educational Neics 51 



fie Literature: — 

 Laisani's La Mathematique : Professoe Alex- 

 ANDEE Macpaelane. Kingsley's Comparative 

 Zoology: Peofessoe F. E. Lloyd. Tlie Phy- 

 togeography of Nebraska : ELIZABETH G. Beit- 

 TON 51 



Scientific Journals 55 



Societies and Academies : — 



T!ie Philadelphia A cademy of Natural Sciences : 

 Dr. Edw. J. Nolan. Torrey Botanical Chib : 

 E.S. BuEGESS , 56 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor. Profes- 

 sor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrlson-OD-Hudson, N. Y. 



NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS (/).* 

 In the prevailing scientific activity of tlie 

 world the enduring vigor which we display 

 in finding out all we can know about our- 

 selves, this point in space we inhabit, what 

 it contains, what it has contained, and 

 what it may be made to contain, the Mu- 

 seum appears as perhaps the most signifi- 

 cant emblem of our untiring industry. 



If I may use my own language employed 

 in another connection, the museums ' ' ap- 

 pear like monoliths over a country which 

 has become imbued with the scientific spirit, 

 here raised to the memory of some local 

 worker , there stately monuments of cos- 

 mopolitan learning, which in the centers of 

 commercial activity preserve alive the 

 genius and the zeal of original research. 

 All are nurtured by the same love of the 

 actual and its relations and laws, and all 

 embody the incessant spirit of observation, 

 comparison and knowledge. 



" In the United States, favored by natural 

 causes, the variety and wealth of our nat- 

 ural resources, by the adoption of scientific 

 instruction in our schools, by the practical 

 habits and cultivated instincts of observa- 

 tion of our people, the liberality of general 

 and State governments in organizing sur- 

 veys, and the helpful impulses of lyceums, 

 lectures and societies, scientific museums 

 increase rapidly." 



* Eead hefore the Gamma Chapter of the Phi Beta 

 Kappa, April 26, 1898. 



