SCIENCE 



Editoeial Committee : S. Nkwcomb, Mathematics ; K. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeins 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; K. H. Thueston, Engineering; Iea Kemsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; 0. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Beooks, 



C. Haet Meeeiam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, 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 Cattbll, 



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



Friday, July 15, 1898. 



CONTENTS: 

 The American Association for the Advancement of 



Science.... 57 



The Breeding of Animals at Woods Holl during the 



Month of 3Iay, 1898 : Peofessoe Heemon C. 



Bumpus 58 



Natural History Museums {II.) : L. P. Geata- 



CAP 61 



GeorgeBaur: O. P. Hay 68 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Latest Asiatic-American Affinity ; Tlie Study 

 of Local Ethnography ; Women as Anthropological 

 Students; Stone Pendants: Peofessoe D. G. 

 Beinton 71 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



Scientific Societies Affiliated with the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science; Tlie 

 Coral-loring Expedition to Funafuti; Dietary 

 Studies ; Science and Industrial Supremacy ; Gen- 

 eral 72 



University and Educational Neics : — 

 Report of the Commissioner of Education for the 

 Year 1896-97 ; General 78 



Scientific Literature: — 



Minet's Electro-Chimie and Electro- Metallur gie : 

 Peofessoe Edgae F. Smith. Ladd's Quanti- 

 tative Chemical Analysis : J- E. G. Haddon on 

 the Study of Man : Peofessoe D. G. Beinton.. 80 



Scientific Journals 82 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Torrey Botanical Club: E. S. Buegess. 

 Tlie Engelmann Botanical Cluh : J. B. S. NoE- 

 TON 83 



New BooTcs , 84 



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

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

 sor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Details additional to those already pub- 

 lished in Science have been sent out re- 

 garding the approaching anniversary meet- 

 ing of the Association. The Rogers 

 Building of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology will be the headquarters of the 

 Association, and the preliminary meeting 

 of the Council will be held there at noon 

 on Saturday, August 20th. The Copley 

 Square Hotel has been chosen as hotel 

 headquarters. The first general session of 

 the Association will be held at 10 a. m. on 

 Monday, August 22d. The meeting will be 

 called to order by the retiring President, 

 Professor Wolcott Gibbs, who will intro- 

 duce the President-elect, Professor F. W. 

 Putnam. Addresses of welcome will be 

 made by his Excellency Eoger Wolcott, 

 Governor of Massachusetts ; His Honor 

 Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston, and 

 President James M. Crafts, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, and 

 President Putnam will reply. 



In the afternoon the addresses of the 

 Vice-Presidents of the Association will be 

 made before the Sections as follows : 



At half-past two o'clock. Vice-President Whitman, 

 before the Section of Physics : ' On the Perception of 

 Light and Color ;' Vice-President Cattell, before the 

 Section of Anthropology : ' The Advance of Psychol- 

 ogy ;' Vice-President Farlow, before the Section of 

 Botany : ' The Conception of Species as Affected by 

 Eecent Investigations on Fungi.' 



