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and the following papers were preseuted in 

 the order given: 



Dk. Willistox: ' Tlie Fossil Man of Lansing. 

 Kansas.' 



Dk. Ludwig Hektoes : ' Tlic Memorial Institute 

 for Infectious Diseases: Its Purposes and Plans.' 



Dr. Siiixkishi Hatai: 'The Development of 

 the Ventral Xerve Roots in the White Rat.' 



Dn. C. B. Davenport : 'Recent European Work 

 on Experimental Evolution.' 



Db. p. Bassoe: 'A Case of Gigantism and 

 Leoiitiasis Ossca ' (illustrated). 



Dr. L. Hektoen : 'A Case of So-called Con- 

 genital Rickets ' with lantern slides. 



Dr. E. O. Jordan : ' The Recent Epidemic of 

 Typhoid Fever in Ithaca, N. Y.' 



Dr. L. F. Barker : ' The Morbid Anatomy of 

 Two Cases of Hereditaiy Ataxia ' ( family de- 

 scribed by Dr. Sanger Brown ) . 



Dr. H. G. Wells : ' Fat Necrosis from the 

 Standpoint of Reversible Enzyme Action.' 



Dr. A. P. Mathews: 'On the Nature of the 

 Action of Salts on Protoplasm.' 



Dr. E. p. Lyon: 'Experiments in Artificial 

 Parthenogenesis.' 



Dr. Chas. Ingbekt: 'An Enumeration of the 

 MeduUated Nerve Fibers in the Dorsal Roots 

 of Spinal Nerves of Man.' 



Dr. S. a. Mathews : ' The Diuretic Effect of 

 Combined Salt Solutions.' 



The June number of the Biological Bul- 

 letin contains the following articles: 



Axel Leonard Melander and Charles Thomas 

 Brues: 'Guests and Parasites of the Burrowing 

 Bee Halictus.' 



J. B. Johnston: • Tlie Origin of the Heart En- 

 dothelium in Amphibia.' 



J. \V. Scott : 'Periods of Susceptibility in the 

 Differentiation of L'nfertilized Eggs of Amphi- 

 trite.' 



Arthur W. Greeley: 'Further Studies on the 

 Effect of Variations in the Temperature on Ani- 

 mal Tissues.' 



Bennett M. Allen : ' Tlie Embryonic Develop- 

 ment of the Ovary and Testis of tlie Mammalia ' 

 (preliminary account). 



/J/NCf ,V.s70.V A\D CORREi<rO\DEyCE. 

 ANTARCTICA. 



To THE Editor of Science: In the Geo- 

 graphical Journal of London for May, 1903, 

 there is a four-and-a-half-page review by Dr. 

 Mill of my monograph ' Antarctica.' May I 



crave space in Science to bring before Amer- 

 ican scientists some of the points touched on? 



Dr. Mill says : ' Mr. Baleh surely does not 

 need to be assured that no British geographer 

 would dream of withholding credit from any 

 exidorer on the ground of his nationality, 

 least of all if that nationality were American.' 

 Let me answer this by some instances. 



During the last six decades certain Euro- 

 pean geographers have made repeated at- 

 tempts to decry Wilkes and his officers. As 

 late as 1901, Lieutenant Colbeck, of the Royal 

 Xavy, now commanding the Morning, pub- 

 lished in Mr. Borchgrevink's book, ' First on 

 the Antarctic Continent,' a chart on which 

 the southward track of the Southern Cross 

 is marked as between 161° and 162° east 

 longitude down to 66° south latitude, a spot 

 at least three degrees distant from the most 

 easterly point of Wilkes Land. The Southern 

 Cross then sailed eastward and never ap- 

 proached Wilkes Land proper at all. Never- 

 theless Lieutenant Colbeck called his chart 

 " Track of Sy. ' Southern Cross ' over Wilkes 

 Land." 



Sir Clements R. Markham has made, dur- 

 ing the last twent.y years, many a disparaging 

 statement about Wilkes and his men. Finally, 

 in his article in the Geographical Journal for 

 Xovember, 1899, he says : ' The Victoria 

 Quadrant first presents, for examination, the 

 lands sighted by Balleny and Dumont d'Ur- 

 ville from 118° E. to the Balleny Islands in 

 162° E., namely, Adelie and Sabrina lands.' 

 Wilkes is not mentioned. In other words, in 

 this case the president of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society ignores absolutely Amer- 

 ican discoveries and American explorers. 



Dr. Mill himself, it seems to me, is not 

 quite fair to Fanning, upon whose veracity 

 he casts reflections, not onl.v in his present 

 review, but also in the February number of 

 the Geographical Journal. There is no rea- 

 son whatever to impugn the veracity of Fan- 

 ning, who was an American, as was Morrell, 

 whom Dr. Mill also attacks, and it is worth 

 while calling attention to the fact that Dr. 

 Mill does not attack a single English ex- 

 plorer. 



Dr. Mill finds fault with me because I 



