SCIENCE 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickkeing, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mkndenhall, Physics; E. H. Thueston, Engineering; Iea Eemsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. 



Beooks, C. Haet Mbeeiam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology; N. L. Beitton, 



Botany; Heney F. Osboen, General Biology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 



Daniel G. Beinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Feiday, Febeuaet 5, 1897. 



CONTENTS: 



A National University . 197 



Science and Pseudo-science in Medicine: Geoege 



M. Steenbeeg 199 



The American Psychological Association : LIVING- 

 STON Fabrand 206 



The A merican Folk-lore Society : Hael AN I. Smith ..215 



Horatio Hale : D. G. Beinton 216 



Emil du Bois-Beymond : S. F. Meltzee 217 



Current Notes on 3feteorology : — 



The Plague and Climatic Conditions; Chinook 



Winds in. the Northwest : E. DeC. Waed 219 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 Ethnologic Medicine ; Sacred Secret Societies : D. 



G. Beinton 220 



Notes on Inorganic Cliemistry : J. L. H 221 



Astronomical Notes : H.J 222 



Scientific Notes and News 222 



University and Educational News 225 



Disctission and Correspondence : — 



Nomenclature of Metamorphic Lavas : H. W. 

 TuENER. The Law of Size-weight Suggestion : 



E. W. SCEIPTUEE 226 



Scientific lAterature : — 



Miall's Bound the Year- E. S. MOESE. £e- 



searcJies on 3Iimicry : Veenon L. Kellogg 227 



Scientific Journals : — 

 American Journal of Science; The American 



Geologist 228 



Societies and Academies : — 



Zoological Club of the University of Chicago : S. 

 . Watase, Katheeine Foot, C. M. Child, A. 

 D. Mead, C. O. Whitman. Biological Society 

 of Washington: F. A. LucAS. Entomological 

 Society of Washington : L. O. Howard. Geo- 

 logical Society of Washington : W. F. MoESELL. 

 Neic York Academy of Sciences : J. F. Kemp. 

 37ie New York Section of the American Chemical 

 Society: Durand Woodman. The Academy 



of Science of St. Louis: Wm. Teelease 230 



New Books 240 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor. Prof. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. 



The reconstruction of the University of 

 Paris, the efforts in and out of the British 

 Parliament to make a University of Lon- 

 don, the great success of the University 

 of Berlin, and the renewed advocacy of a 

 National University at "Washington, indi- 

 cate a movement which, we believe, makes 

 for the progress of education and science. 

 There are dangers in centralization, but 

 these are small in comparison with the 

 promise of great centers, where specializa- 

 tion and cooperation can be carried forward 

 to the degree demanded by the present 

 state of learning and science. 



It is not necessary to take up space in 

 this Journal to set forth in detail facts on 

 which we are all agreed — that universities 

 are necessary for the progress and even the 

 preservation of our present civilization; 

 that America should have universities equal 

 to those of any other country; that the 

 founding of new universities, such as Johns 

 Hopkins, Chicago and Stanford has been 

 productive of good; that the establishment 

 by gifts or bequests of a university at Wash- 

 ington greater than any other would be re- 

 ceived with universal satisfaction. It is, 

 however, desirable to consider the objec- 



