January 23, 1903.] 



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Atome; p. 113, for present, prevent (the pas- 

 sage from Bentliam in which this mistake 

 occurs was evidently taken from Eisler's 

 ' Worterbuch,' where the same mistake is 

 made); p. 126, for Preyer, Preger; p. 143, 

 for Appendix B, Appendix II.; p. 194, for 

 Fonsgrieve, Fonsegrive; p. 269, for Kirchener, 

 Kirchner; p. 270, for 1894, 1874; p. 273, for 

 Appuleius, Apuleius; p. 292, for Herbert, 

 Herbart; p. 456, for fiihlen, Fiihlen; p. 500, 

 for ISTatur und Grenzen der Naturwissen- 

 schaf t, IJ ber die Grenzen des Naturerkennens ; 

 p. 533, for Gibert, Gilbert; p. 601, for Puf- 

 fendorf, Pufendorf; p. 668, for stata, states; 

 p. 823, for Nietsche, ISTietzsche. The refer- 

 ence on page 421 to Miiller's translation of 

 the 'Kritik' (p. 320-326) should, I suppose, 

 be to pages 300 fF. 



The Greek, Latin, German, French and 

 Italian indices which are found at the end 

 of the second volume are useful. 



Frank Thilly. 



University of Missoxjbi. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The Popular Science Monthly for January 

 contains an excellent account of ' The Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden,' by William Trelease, 

 telling of its origin, arrangement and plans 

 for future growth. Alfred C. Haddon makes 

 a plea for ' The Saving of Vanishing Data,' 

 mainly zoological, and A. J. McLaughlin com- 

 bats ' America's Distrust of the Immigrant ' 

 with the aid of various tables showing his 

 various deficiencies. ' Variation in Man and 

 Woman,' by Havelock Ellis, is largely a reply 

 to former criticism by Professor Pearson and 

 tends to show that variation is greatest in 

 man. J. C. Sutherland considers ' The En- 

 gineering Mind,' and A. L. Benedict makes 

 a plea for ' Post-graduate Degrees in Absen- 

 tia.' Frederick Adams Woods presents the 

 eixth of his papers on ' Mental and Moral 

 Heredity in Royalty,' the present being de- 

 voted to the Bourbons in Spain, and W. J. 

 Spilbnan discusses ' Mendel's Law.' 



In The American Naturalist for December 

 A. W. Grabau presents some ' Studies of Gas- 

 tropoda ' and W. M. Wheeler describes ' The 

 Occurrence of Formica cinerea Mayr and 



Formica rudiharhis Fabricius in America.' 

 The twelfth part of ' Synopses of North 

 American Invertebrates ' is by H. S. Pratt, 

 and continues the treatment of the Trema- 

 todes, embracing the digenetic forms. This is 

 a long and fully illustrated paper. The num- 

 ber contains the index to Volume XXXVI. 



The American Museum Journal for Jan- 

 uary gives notes on the second Cope collec- 

 tion of fossil vertebrates, on the Eskimo col- 

 lection from Hudson Bay and on the skeleton 

 of the finback whale recently acquired by the 

 museum. The supplement is a substantial 

 ' leaflet ' of thirty pages, fully illustrated, 

 devoted to an account, by W. D. Matthew, of 

 the ' Evolution of the Horse.' This pamphlet 

 should be in demand, as it summarizes our 

 knowledge of this subject in a most admirable 

 manner and brings it down to date. 



The leading article of The Museums Jour- 

 nal of Great Britain for December is on 

 ' Technical Museums,' by John MacLauchlan, 

 and is a sketch of the technical museum of 

 Dundee, showing how its collections were 

 brought together at comparatively little cost. 

 Not every museum, however, is so favorably 

 located for acquiring material. The bulk of 

 the number is occupied by reviews of museum 

 reports and with notes. From these last we 

 learn that the collections made by Sven 

 Hedin are now in the Stockholm university 

 college, where they are being arranged and 

 studied. F. A. Lucas. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



OHIO STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



The twelfth annual meeting was held at 

 Columbus, November 28 and 29, with abdut 

 thirty-five members in attendance. The com- 

 mittee on topographic survey reported that 

 the legislature had granted $50,000 to con- 

 tinue the work in cooperation with the United 

 States Geological Survey in 1902 and 1903. 

 Lynds Jones, of Oberlin, gave an account of 

 work done with aid from the Emerson 

 McMillin research fund to secure data for a 

 catalogue of the birds of Ohio to be published 

 by the Academy. C. Judson Herrick was 

 elected president for the ensuing year; J. A. 

 Bownocker and Miss L. C. Riddle, viee-presi- 



