SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newoomb, Mathematics ; R. S. "Woodwaed, MechanicvS ; E. C. Pickeeing, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thukston, Engineering; Ika Eemsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, 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. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 



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



G. Beown Goode, Scientific Organization. 



Friday, July 24, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



The Advancement of 3Iedieine iy Research: H. 

 P. Bowditch 85 



The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific 

 Coast: Franz Boas 101 



Recent Hydrographic Examinations in the Appala- 

 chian Area: Cyeus C. Babb 103 



An Astronomical Cipher Code 106 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 

 Ice Work, Past and Present; Dissected Basalt 

 Plateaus of Northwestern Europe ; The Geography 

 of Silesia; Notes: W. M. DAVIS 107 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 A Study of the Basques ; The Toltecs in Fable and 

 History: D. G. Beinton 108 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



Astronomy : H. J. The Davy-Faraday Research 

 Laboratory; Nervous Diseases and Modern Life; 

 General 109 



University and Educational News 115 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



An Inherited Blunder : J. Paul Goode 115 



Scientific Literature : — 



Lydekker^s Royal Natural History; Mammals: 

 C. H. M. The Palpi of Butterflies. Chester's Dic- 

 tionary of the Names of Minerals: L. P. Geata- 

 CAP. Sanger's Experiments in General Chemistry : 

 E. H. K 116 



Scientific Journals : — 



The Journal of Geology : D. P. N. The Monist. . .118 

 New Books 120 



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 ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICINE BY 

 RESEARCH* 



Mr. President and Fellows op the 



Massachusetts Medical Society: 



The recent attempt by the Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to secure 

 legislation for the restriction of biological 

 research in Massachusetts, and the prob- 

 ability that the attempt will be repeated 

 during the next session of the Legislature, 

 may serve as my excuse for asking you to 

 consider the history and significance of the 

 movement, the inevitable result of its suc- 

 cess, as well as the moral principles which 

 here find their application. 



That the Legislature of Massachusetts 

 should be requested to restrict the right of 

 physicians to study their profession, and of 

 the higher educational institutions of the 

 State to teach the sciences on which the 

 practice of medicine rests, is a phenomenon 

 which surprises no one who has watched 

 the progress of the so-called ' anti-vivisec- 

 tion ' agitation during the last quarter of a 

 century. At various times within this per- 

 iod have the efforts of misguided benevo- 

 lence been directed to checking the progress 

 of medical science by interfering with one 

 of the most important methods by which 

 advances can be made. Fortunately for 

 humanity, these efforts have, in nearly all 



*The annual discourse, delivered June 10, 1896, 

 by the President before the Massachusetts Medical 

 Society. 



