SCIENCE 



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



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thueston, Engineering; lEA Eemsen, Chemistry; 



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



Beooes, C. Haet Meeeiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddbe, Entomology ; N. L. Beitton, 



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



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



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



Feiday, Maech 5, 1897. 



CONTENTS: 



Goode Memorial Meeting : Cyeus Adler 365 



George Brown Goode : S. P. Langley 369 



Goode as a Naturalist: Heney F. Osboen 373 



TIte National University : Ch aeles W. Dabney, Je. 378 



T!ie Coast and Geodetic Survey: J 384 



The American Morphological Society : G. H. 

 Paekee 388 



Zoological Notes : — 



The Florida 3Ionster : A. E. Veeeill. A New 

 Suigeneric Name for the Water Hares (hydrolagus 

 Geay): Edgae A. Mkaens 392 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



Woman in China; Death Masks in Europe and 

 America ; Ontario Archaeological Report : D. G. 

 Beinton 393 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 394 



Scientific Notes and News ;— 



Vertebrates from the Kansas Permian : S. W. "WlL- 

 LISTON. A New Botanical Laboratory in the 

 American Tropics: D. T. MacDougal. An Alloy 

 composed of Tiiio-thirds Aluminum and One-third 

 Zinc ; General 395 



University and Educational News 399 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 An Ambitious ' Paradoxer ': S. Newcomb. For- 

 mer Extension of Greenland Glaciers: T. C. 

 Chambeklin. Tioo Extraordinary British Pat- 

 ents : H. Caerington Bolton. Compliment or 

 Plagiarism : Aethde Lefevee. Reduced Rates 

 of Postage on Specimens of Natural History in the 

 International Mails — An Appeal : H. A. PlLS- 

 BEY, Lewis Woolman, Philip P. Calveet. 

 27(6 Lavoisier Monument : Edgae F. Smith 400 



Scientific Literature : — - 



List of tJie Vertebrated Animals in the Garden of 

 the Zoological Society of London : Feank Bakee. 

 Hirsch on Genius and Degeneration : Chaeles 

 L.Dana 404 



Scientific Journals : — 

 American Journal of Science 406 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: Bee- 

 NAED E. Geeen. Science Club of the University 

 of Wisconsin: Wm. S. Marshall 408 



New Books 408 



GOODE MEMORIAL MEETING. 



On Saturday evening, February 13, 1897, 

 a memorial meeting was held in the lec- 

 ture room of the United States National 

 Museum at Washington, to commemorate 

 the life and services of the late George 

 Brown Goode. Over four hundred persons 

 were assembled, representing the seven 

 scientific societies and the patriotic and 

 historical societies of Washington, the 

 American Philosophical Society and the 

 American Society of Naturalists. 



The meeting was presided over by the 

 Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard, President 

 of the Joint Commission, who opened the 

 exercises with some brief remarks. He 

 explained that the day was chosen be- 

 cause it was Dr. Goode's natal day, he hav- 

 ing been born on the 13th of February, 

 1851. " Never," said Mr. Hubbard, " was 

 there a truer, a more intelligent counsellor, 

 a more sympathetic friend, a more ready 

 helper, a more kindly nature." 



" None know him but to love him, 

 None named him but to praise. ' ' 



" His mind was versatile, his interests 

 widespread, his tastes refined, his judg- 

 ment correct. He was a true lover of 

 nature, of art, of beauty everywhere." 

 " Into the work of the Museum he threw 

 his heart and life." " He was urged last 

 summer to go to the Seal Islands, but he 

 was reluctant to leave his work. He re- 



