SCIENCE 



Editobial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodwakd, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; R. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Rebisbn, Chemistry; 



J. Lb Conte, Geology; Vi. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Marsh, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 



C. Hart Merriam, Zoology; S. H. Scudder, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. Beitton, 



Botany; Henry F. Osboen, General Biology; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; 



H. P. BowDiTCH, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene; J. McKekn Cattkll, 



Psychology; Daniel G. Bkinton, J. W. Powisll, Anthropology. 



Friday, December 23, 1898. 



CONTENTS: 



Zoology and the Philosophy of Evolution : PROFES- 

 SOR W. K. Brooks 881 



Fermeuiation icifhout Living Cells and Synthetic Pro- 

 tein: Dr. H. W. Wiley 893 



The ' Feeling of Being Stared At :' Professor E. 



B. Titchenee 895 



What is Sciurus variegatus Erxleben 1 E. W. Nel- 

 son 897 



Notes on Physics : — 



Transformer Design; Underground Electric Cur- 

 rents in Neil} York City; High-Voltage- Poicer 

 Transmission: W. S. F 898 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 899 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



Hussian Ethnography; Argentine Ethnography; 

 T/ie Ethnological Survey of Canada : PROFESSOR 

 D. G. Brinton 901 



Scientific Notes and News 902 



University and Educational News 905 



Discussion and Correspondence : — - 



Anlage or Proton ? : PROFESSOR Chaeles Sedg- 

 wick Mixot. Is the Beach Pea Food or Poison ? : 

 John Murdoch 906 



Scientific Literature: — 



Encyklopaedie der Matliematischen Wissenschaften : 

 Peofessoe George Becce Halsted. Darivin 

 on The Tides: R. S. W. Gage's Elements of 

 Physics : W. Le Conte Stevens. VanH Sofs 

 LcQons de chimie physique : Professor Harry 



C. Jones. Moore's Lahoratory Directions for 

 Beginners in Bacteriology: Dr. Wm. H.Paek. 

 General 907 



Scientific Journals 916 



Societies and Academies : — 



Entomological Sonely of Washington : Dr. L. O. 

 Howard. Biological Society of Washington: F. 

 A. Lucas. The New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. Dueand Woodman. 

 Section of Psychology and Anthropology of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences: C. B. Bliss. Stu- 

 dents' Clui and Geological Conference of Harvard 

 University: J. JI. Boutwell. The Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis : PROFESSOR William 

 Teelease 917 



New Books 920 



ZOOLOGY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF EVO- 

 LUTION.* 

 " I have nothing to say to any Philosophy of Evo- 

 lution. * * * Attempts to cons: met such a philosophy 

 may be useful, but in my judgment they are prema- 

 ture." — Huxley: 'Collected Essays,' V. 



The facts given in the last two lectures 

 seem to show that we cannot expect much 

 from the ' Lamarckian factors,' even if they 

 should prove to be factors ; and while this 

 impression may be wrong, it seems to be 

 the rational frame of mind until it has 

 proved wrong. 



He who follows the current literature of 

 zoology finds that many writers assure him, 

 in effect, that the years which Darwin and 

 Wallace gave to hard labor on the problem 

 of species were thrown away, since all they 

 tried to find out by hard work might have 

 been deduced from the Philosophy of Evo- 

 lution. 



We were warned, long ago, that " who- 

 ever, unable to doubt and eager to afSrm, 

 shall establish principles, and, according to 

 the unmoved truth of these, shall reject or 

 receive others, * * * he shall exchange 

 things for words, reason for insanity, the 

 world for a fable, and shall be incapable of 

 interpreting." 



In ' philosophy ' current history is some- 

 times ancient history, and the ardent dis- 

 pone of a course of lectures on the Foundations of 

 Zoology as delivered in Columbia University, Decem- 

 ber, 1898. 



