June 5, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



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jeets Prehistoric ? ' followed by ' Primitive 

 Metal Working,' by C. C. Willougbby. The 

 entire question of aboriginal American cop- 

 per-working is debated and many new evi- 

 dences brought out by specialists who have 

 devoted much time to the study of the prob- 

 lem of prehistoric metal-working and in ex- 

 perimental work with primitive appliances. 

 In ' American Indian Games (1902) ' Mr. 

 Stewart Culin, the recognized authority on 

 this subject, presents his most recent conclu- 

 sions. Dr. George Grant MacCurdy reviews 

 the ' Progress in Anthropology at Peabody 

 Museum, Yale University,' during the last 

 few years, describing the field work conducted 

 and the more important collections made. 

 Some ' Parsee Religious Ceremonial Objects 

 in the National Museum' are described, with 

 illustrations, by Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, intro- 

 ducing his paper with a brief account of the 

 Parsees and their religious beliefs. Dr. 

 Frank Eussell, in an article on ' Pima An- 

 nals,' describes some interesting tally-sticks 

 of the Pimas of Arizona on which are kept 

 mnemonic or pictographic records of events, 

 such as battles or skirmishes, infrequent 

 natural phenomena, relations with white 

 people, festivals, killings during drinking 

 bouts, etc. The four ' annals ' described cover 

 the years 1833-4, 1836-7, 1857-8 and 1881-2. 

 Mr. Clark Wissler, in a paper on ' The Growth 

 of Boys,' gives in tabular form a series of 

 correlations for the annual increments, based 

 on some 1,500 annual measurements of about 

 300 individuals of a private school for boys. 

 Dr. Maurice Fishberg treats of pigmentation 

 among the Jews, continuing from the last 

 number of the journal his discussion of the 

 ' Physical Anthropology of the Jews.' Mr. 

 S. C. Simms describes, with an outline 

 figure, a curious ' Wheel-shaped Stone Monu- 

 ment in Wyoming,' the former use of which 

 is problematical. Mr. George F. Kunz pre- 

 sents a biographic sketch, with an excellent 

 portrait, of the late Heber E. Bishop, and 

 describes the remarkable jade collection which 

 Mr. Bishop presented to the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art. The proceedings of the 

 meeting of Section H of the American Asso- 



ciation for the Advancement of Science, with 

 it affiliated societies, at the Washington meet- 

 ing, is given by Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, 

 and the number closes with an account of the 

 organization of the American Anthropological 

 Association, with its constitution and a list 

 of the officers and members. 



The American Anthropologist is now pub- 

 lished under the auspices of the new associa- 

 tion, of which it is the official organ, as well 

 as that of the Anthropological Society of 

 Washington and the American Ethnological 

 Society of New York. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. LOUIS. 



At the meeting of April 20, 1903, Professor 

 J. A. Holmes gave an illustrated account of 

 some of the efforts that are being made in the 

 United States to preserve the forests and 

 other natural features of the country, showing 

 what is being done for the preservation of 

 some of the great scenic features and partic- 

 ularly what the national government is doing 

 in the way of national parks and forest re- 

 serves and in the protection of the forests on 

 such reservations. 



One person was elected to active member- 

 ship. 



At the meeting of May 4, 1903, Mr. H. A. 

 Wheeler gave an account, illustrated by several 

 lantern slides and some of the recently ejected 

 material, of the active Mexican volcano 

 Colima, of which he saw some of the recent 

 eruptions. It was shown that the material 

 now being ejected is a trachyte, or belongs 

 to the acid series of lavas, while the basal 

 plain of the volcano is of basalt, which is basic, 

 resting upon volcanic tufa. It was pointed 

 out that this sequence reverses the Richtofen 

 order of volcanic discharges, from which it 

 was considered probable that there have been 

 other centers of lava outflow besides the now 

 visible vents of Mt. Colima (active) and Mt. 

 Zapotlan (inactive). Samples of the ash 

 from the eruption of February 28, in the form 

 of granules 1 to 2 mm. in diameter, which 

 fell at Tiixpan, some twenty-five miles from 

 the crater, and which were secured by Pro- 



