SCIENCE 



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



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



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



Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, 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. 



Friday, September 18, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



George Broxon Qoode 365 



Botanical Society of America : — 



Proceedings: Charles E. Barnes 366 



Address of the President — Botanical Opportunity : 

 William Trelease 367 



The American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science : — 

 Section E. — Geology and Geography: WlLLlAM 



North Eice 382 



Section H. — Anthropology : G. H. PERKINS 388 



The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science : 

 C. S. Plumb 392 



British Association for the Advancement of Science : — 

 Address by the President to the Mathematical and 

 Physical Section : J.J. Thomson 392 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 Pathology in Anthropology ; The Croivd as an An- 

 thropic Unit ; Recent Craniological Studies : D. G. 

 Brinton 402 



Bdentijic Notes and News : — 



The British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science ; The Pasteur Memorial ; General 403 



University and Educational News 405 



Scientific Literature : — 



Bonney^s Ice Work, Present and Past: T. C. 

 Chamberlin. Iowa Geological Survey: Charles 

 E. Keyes 406 



New Books 408 



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. 



GEORGE BROWN GOODE. 

 George Brown Goode was born in New 

 Albany, Indiana, on the thirteenth of Feb- 

 ruary, 1851, and died at Washington, D. C, 

 on the sixth of September, 1896. His ill- 



ness was brief; on Thursday pneumonia 

 developed, and he died on Sunday evening. 

 His wife, three sons and a daughter are 

 left. 



Goode was interested in natural history 

 as a boy, and during his college course at 

 Wesleyan University found opportunity to 

 occupy himself both with zoology and with 

 museum methods. After graduating from 

 the University, in 1870, he devoted himself 

 to these subjects, making a collecting trip 

 to the West Indies in 1872 and 1873. In 

 the latter year, at the wish of his friend. 

 Prof. Baird, he became connected with 

 the Smithsonian Institution, to which his 

 genius, as a man of science and an admini- 

 strator, was devoted for twenty-three years. 



We hope to give later an adequate ac- 

 count of Goode's contributions to ichthy- 

 ology and to museum administration. His 

 extended series of volumes on ' The Game 

 Fishes of the United States,' ' The Fisheries 

 and Fishing Industries of the United States, ' 

 ' American Fishes ' and ' Oceanic Ichthy- 

 ology ' are standard works, showing great 

 scientific knowledge and originality and 

 power of expression and arrangement. But 

 few men could have accomplished so much 

 even in a long life devoted exclusively to 



