SCIENCE 



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



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; E. H. Thueston, Engineering; Iba Eemsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; "W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. 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, Embryology, Histology; 



H. P. BowDiTOH, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKebn Cattell, 



Psychology; Daniel G. Bbinton, J. "W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, August 5, 1898. 



CONTENTS: 



Tlie Boston Sleeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science 141 



T7ie Jurassic Formation on the Atlantic Coast — Sup- 

 plement: Peofessoe O. C. Maesh 145 



Notes on the Geology of Jamaica : OscAB H. Hee- 



SHEY 154 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Native American Languages; Tlie Study of 

 Decreased Natality ; ilexican Flutes : Peofes- 

 soe D. G. Beinton" 155 



Scientific Notes and Neius .•— 



The Maryland Geological Surveg ; General 156 



University and Educational Netos 161 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Science in the Bureau of Education : PeofessoE 

 John Gaedinee. ' The Psychology of Sugges- 

 tion :' De. Boeis Sidis. Celluloid Films : De. 

 Heeman S. Davis 161 



Scientific Literature: — 



Bertrand's Au Pays des ia-Botsi : Peofessoe 

 William Libbey. Rowley on the Art of Taxi- 

 dermy : F. A. L. Fuertes on Water and Public 

 Eealth : Peofessoe W. P. Mason. vanH Hojf 

 on the Arrangement of Atoms in Space. Noyes 



■ and SlilUketi's Laboratory Experiments on the Class 

 Reactions and Identification of Organic Substances : 

 Peofessoe W. A. Noyes 163 



Scientific Journals 168 



New Books 168 



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

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

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



THE BOSTON MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE. 

 The Fiftieth Anniversary of the American 

 Association might well have been celebrated 

 a year ago and, most fittingly, in Bos- 

 ton, for it was there, in 1847, that the 

 Association of American Geologists deter- 

 mined to abandon the name and organiza- 

 tion of a society which had enjoyed a 

 prosperous existence for seven or eight 

 years and by enlarging its scope and mem- 

 bership create the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. In refer- 

 ence to this act, Silliman's Jotmial, in its 

 first issue after the meeting, says : " The 

 most important step taken at this meeting 

 was the enlargement of the sphere of oper- 

 ations in this Association and a corre- 

 sponding change of name, ' The American 

 Association for the Promotion of Science,' 

 is hereafter to be its designation, and it is 

 designed to embrace all laborers in Physical 

 Science and Natural History. Hitherto 

 but few papers have been read on Chemis- 

 try, Natural Philosophy and General 

 Zoology, the title of the Association ap- 

 pearing to many to exclude these topics. 

 A corresponding increase of valuable papers 



