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SCIENCE. 



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approval of Professor Hann, who has been 

 consulted in regard to all of these matters. 

 Every reference, the original of which is ac- 

 cessible in the Harvard College library or in 

 the library of the Harvard College Observa- 

 tory, has been looked up, verified and made 

 ;as complete as possible. No apology is needed 

 for the use of the Centigrade and metric sys- 

 ttem in such a book as this. For convenience, 

 conversion tables, reprinted from the Smith- 

 sonian Meteorological Tables, are given in the 

 appendix." 



Professor Ward has also taken great pains 

 tto have the book rendered into good English, 

 -and in this matter he has had the skilled hand 

 of Professor Henry S. Mackintosh to assist 

 tim. 



He has also taken great pains to add new 

 Teferences; and the book is remarkably rich 

 as a bibliography to modern literature oA 

 ■climatology. 



The book is divided into two parts. Part 

 I. deals with the ' Climatic Factors,' namely, 

 temperature, moisture, cloudiness, precipita- 

 tion, winds, pressure, evaporation, composi- 

 tion of the atmosphere and phenological ob- 

 servations. Part II. deals with solar or 

 mathematical climate, physical climate, the 

 influence of land and water on the distribution 

 of temperature, the influence of continents 

 upon humidity, cloudiness, precipitation and 

 winds, the influence of ocean currents upon 

 climate, the influence of forests on climate, 

 the mean temperature of parallels of latitude 

 and of the hemispheres, mountain climate, 

 and finally geologic and periodic changes of 

 climate. 



No less than five chapters are devoted to 

 mountain climate and the influences of moun- 

 tains on climate. 



No one familiar with Dr. Hann's writings 

 need be told that he deals with the subject 

 from a cosmopolitan standpoint which is rare 

 even among the leaders in science, and he 

 shows a surprising familiarity with the litera- 

 ture of every language. The translation 

 ■.seems all that one could wish. 



H. H. Clayton. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The Journal of Comparative Neurology for 

 April contains the following articles : ' The 

 Fore-Brain of Macacus,' by Wm. Wolfe 

 Lesem, a study of the superficial anatomy of 

 the brain of the macaque monkey, with two 

 plates. 'Brain Weights of Animals, with 

 Special Reference to the Weight of the Brain 

 in the Macaque Monkey,' by Edward Anthony 

 Spitzka, including a tabulation of the brain 

 and body weights of 204 specimens of mam- 

 malian brains. ' A Description of Charts 

 showing the Areas of the Cross-sections of 

 the Human Spinal Cord at the Level of each 

 Spinal Nerve,' by Henry H. Donaldson and 

 David J. Davis, an entirely new computation, 

 including a comparison of the young and 

 mature spinal cord and six different sets of 

 curves. ' The Brain of the Archseoseti,' by 

 G. , Elliot Smith, a description of two casts of 

 the brain cavity of this extinct cetacean, with 

 four figures. There are twenty pages of book 

 reviews, including a full summary of the re- 

 searches of Professor EUiot Smith on the 

 ' Phylogeny of the Pallium.' 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



The work of the society for the winter has 

 maintained the high level of former years, as 

 shown by the importance of the papers pre- 

 sented and the enthusiasm displayed. At the 

 meeting of November 4, 1902, Professor Lester 

 F. Ward discussed ' Race Differentiation and 

 Race Integration,' treating the subject from 

 the social side, and in this connection Pro- 

 fessor Holmes showed diagrammatically the 

 beginnings of races and their final amalgama- 

 tion. 



Professor W. H. Holmes followed with a 

 paper entitled ' The Search for Glacial Man,' 

 reviewing the various discoveries and describ- 

 ing the recent find of human remains at 

 Lansing, Kansas. The meeting of November 

 4 was devoted to sociology, and papers were 

 read by Mr. Charles F. Weller, on ' How 

 Citizenship is Molded in Washington Alleys 

 and Shacks,' and by Dr. George M. Kober, on 

 ' The Abuse of Medical Charities.' These 



