SCIENCE 



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



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



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



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



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



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



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



Feiday, April 2, 1897. 



CONTENTS: 



Tlie Belations of Science and the Scientific Citizen to 

 the General Government: J. E. Eastman 525 



Tlie New York State Science Teachers' Association 

 (III-), including Address by Thomas B. Stowell: 

 Feanklin W. Baeeows 531 



Migration of Bats on Cape Cod, Massachusetts: 

 Geeeit S. Miller, Je 541 



Zoological Notes : — 



Museums and Science; A Dog of the Ancient 

 Pueblos: F. A. LucAS 543 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 European Ethnographical Museums ; Ethnograph- 

 ical Survey of Great Britain: D. G. BBINION...545 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 545 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



The Threatened Legislation against Science and 

 Education; General 546 



University and Educational News 549 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Relations of Tarsius to the Lemurs and Apes : A. 

 A. W. HuBEECT. The Journal of School Geog- 

 raphy: W. M. Davis, Eichaed E. Dodge. 

 The Drainage of the Saginaw Valley : Alfeed 

 C. Lane 550 



Scientific Literature : — 

 Newton's Dictionary of Birds : Elliott Coues. 

 Recent Geological Bibliographies : H. F. Bain. 553 



Societies and Academies : — 



Chemical Society of Washington: V. K. Ches- 

 NUT. Geological Society of Washington : W. F. 

 MoESELL. Entomological Society of Washington : 

 L. O. HowAED. New York Academy of Sciences : 

 Eichaed E. Dodge 557 



New Books 560 



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. 



THE RELATIONS OF SCIENCE AND THE SCI 

 ENTIFIC CITIZEN TO THE GENERAL 



GOVERNMENT* 



In the founding of states, and in the 

 early stages of that development of local 

 and general government that rests on new 

 principles or on novel combinations of well 

 recognized theories, the stress of individual 

 and collective effort for simple existence is 

 the dominant factor in the community. 

 Under such circumstances the systematic 

 investigation of natural phenomena can 

 have no place in the occupations of men, 

 nor receive recognition in those fundamen- 

 tal laws that set forth the rights and the 

 duties of the citizen and the powers of the 

 state. 



Republics are born of the impelling de- 

 sire for the greatest good for the maximum 

 number of citizens, and that democratic 

 impulse reaches its highest activity only 

 when community of interest and compara- 

 tive equality of estate and station charac- 

 terize the members of the body politic. 

 With the material development of states 

 the varied energies and capacities of in- 

 dividuals soon introduce aspirations for 

 higher knowledge and also those combina- 

 tions for wielding financial power which 

 are inseparable from all highly organized 

 communities; and such forces, in their turn, 

 demand not only the practical application 



■* Eead hefore the Philosophical Society of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, February 6, 1897. 



