SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. "Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; K. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Remsen, Chemistry; 



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



Brooks, C. Hart Meeriam, Zoology; S. H. Scudder, Entomology; N. L. Britton, 



Botany; Henry F. Osborn, General Biology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



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



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



G. Brown Goode, Scientific Organization. 



Friday, August 21, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



Science in America 205 



Zoology as a Factor in Mental Culture ; S. H. Gage. .207 



Instinct and Education in Birds: H. C. Bumpus...213 



A Northern Michigan Baselevel : C. R. VAN HISE..217 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 

 San Francisco Peninsula ; Turkey Lake, Indiana ; 

 Geology and Scenery of Sutherland ; Geography in 

 the English Universities; The Pamirs: W. M. 

 Davis 220 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Significance of the Metopic Suture ; The Svas- 

 tikaand Triskeles: D. G. Brinton 221 



Scientific Notes and News 222 



University and Educational News : — 

 The Hull Biological laboratories; Science at Ox- 

 ford; General 226 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Gifts to the Lick Observatory : Edward S- Hol- 

 DEN. On lifting Monoliths: Otis T. Mason. 

 The ' Eansan^ Glacial Border: Edward H. 

 Williams, jr. A Large Lobster: F. C. 

 Waite 228 



Scientific Literature : — 

 Percival Lowell on Mars: "W. W. Campbell. 

 Korschelt and Heider's Text-hook of the Embryol- 

 ogy of Invertebrates : Jacob Reighard. Browne's 

 Taxidermy: F. A. LucAS 231 



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. 



SCIENCE IN AMERICA. 

 The annual meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence should be made the great scientific 

 event of each year. "We need special so- 

 cieties where students from the different 

 centers of research may present and dis- 



cuss the advances of a single science, 

 and we need local academies where men of 

 science working in different directions may 

 meet on common ground. But more impor- 

 tant than these is a meeting where all lo- 

 calities and all sciences are represented — a 

 clearing house for the work of the year, 

 where accumulations may be reported and 

 balances adjusted. The conditions of sci- 

 ence in America make such a meeting diffi- 

 cult but at the same time peculiarly de- 

 sirable. 



There is, indeed, no such thing as Amer- 

 ican science. We may regret that we have 

 no school of American literature or of 

 American art, but science is universal. It 

 is not limited by language, nor by political 

 and social institutions. "We build us a city 

 and a tower whose top may reach unto 

 heaven, and our work is not stayed, though 

 we have many languages and be scattered 

 abroad on the face of the whole earth. But 

 there is such a thing as science in America. 

 We build us one city, but the stone and 

 mortar must be taken from the ground 

 on which we stand. We, who live and 

 work in America, have certain advan- 

 tages and certain obstacles, as compared 

 with the great nations of Europe, with 



