SCIENCE 



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



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; R. H. Thueston, Engineering; Iea Eemskn, Chemistry; 



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



Beooks, C. Haet Meeeia%i, Zoology; S. H. Scuddbe, Entomology; N. L. Beitton, 



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



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



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



Friday, February 19, 1897. 



CONTENTS: 



Louis Agassiz: William James 285 



On the Effects of Disease and Senility as Illustrated 

 in the Bones and Teeth of 3Iammals : Haeeison 

 Allen 289 



American Metrological Society 295 



Tlie Apprenticeship Question: E. H. Thueston.299 



Henry L. Whiting: M 300 



Zoological Notes : — 



The Generic Names Ictis, Arctogale and Arctoga- 

 lidia: C. Haet Meeeiam 302 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



Tlie Woman Question ; Ancient Man in England; 

 The Chaco Idioms: D. G. Beinton 302 



Astronomical Notes : H. J 303 



Scientific Notes and News 303 



University and Educational News 307 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Lieutenant Peary's Expedition : Geo. H. Bae- 

 ton. Color-hlindness and William Pole : A Study 

 in Logic : Cheistine Ladd Feanklin 308 



Scientific Literature : — 

 Non-Euclidean Geometry : A. S. Hathaway. 

 Waldo's Elementary Sleteorology : E. DbC. 

 Waed. Wiechmann's Lecture Notes on Theo- 

 retical Chemistry: J AS. LEWIS Howe. Tlie 

 Argentaurum Papers : W 311 



Scientific Journals : — 



The Physical Betiew 315 



Societies and Academies : — 

 Eleventh Annual Session of the loioa Academy of 

 Sciences: Heebeet Osboen. The Scientific 

 Association of the Johns Hopkins University : 

 Chas. Lane Pooe. Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington : F. A. Lucas. The New York Academy 

 of Sciences — Biological Section : C. L. Beistol..317 



New Books 320 



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. 



LOUIS AGASSIZ* 



It would be unnatural to have such an 

 assemblage as this meet in the Museum and 

 Faculty Room of this University and yet 

 have no public word spoken in honor of a 

 name which must be silently present to the 

 minds of all our visitors. 



At some near future day it is to be hoped 

 some one of you who is well acquainted with 

 Agassiz's scientific career will discourse here 

 concerning it. I could not now, even if I 

 would, speak to you of that of which you have 

 far more intimate knowledge than I. On 

 this social occasion it has seemed that what 

 Agassiz stood for in the way of character 

 and influence is the more fitting thing to 

 commemorate, and to that agreeable task I 

 have been called. He made an impression 

 that was unrivalled. He left a sort of pop- 

 ular myth — the Agassiz legend, as one 

 might say — behind him in the air about us; 

 and life comes kindlier to all of us; we get 

 more recognition from the world because we 

 call ourselves naturalists — and that was the 

 class to which he also belonged. 



The secret of such an extraordinarily 

 effective influence lay in the equally extra- 

 ordinary mixture of the animal and social 

 gifts, the intellectual powers and the de- 

 sires and passions of the man. From his 



* Words spoken at the reception of the American 

 Society of Naturalists given by the President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College at Cambridge on Decem- 

 ber 30, 1896. 



