SCIENCE 



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



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thueston, Engineering; Iea 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. McKeek Cattell, Psychology ; 



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



Friday, October 30, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



British Association for the Advancement of Science : — 

 Address by the President before the Zoological Sec- 

 tion: E. B. PouLTON 625 



Section R. — Anthropology: A. C. Haddon 637 



The International Psychological Congress : Shep- 

 heed Ivoey Feanz 640 



The Princeton Sesquicentennial 647 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Black Pace of Susa ; The Earliest Belies of 

 Man in France ; The Man in the Moon : D. G. 

 Beinton 649 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 

 Atmospheric Electricity and Telephones; Weather 

 Forecasts Several Days in Advance; The First 

 Daily Weather Map: E. DeC. Waed 650 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry; J. L. H 651 



Astronomical Notes : H.J 652 



Scientific Notes and News 652 



University and Educational News 655 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Halsted on the Straight : George Beuce Hal- 

 STED. The Curve-tracing Top: JAS. E. Tal- 

 MAGe. Geology in the Colleges of the United 

 States: L. W. Chaney, Je 656 



Scientific Literature : — 



Bendire^s Life Histories of North American Birds : 

 C. H. M. Smith'' s Economic Entomology for the 

 Farmer and Fruit Grower : L. O. HowAED 657 



Societies and Academies : — 



The New York Academy of Science: — Biological 

 Section: Chaeles F. Beistol. Annual Meet- 

 ing of the New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: DUEAND Woodman. The 

 Academy of Science of St. Louis: William 

 Teelease 659 



Scientific Journals : — 



The American Geologist 660 



MSS. intended lor publication and books, etc., intended 

 or review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



BBITISS ASSOCIATION FOB THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE* 



ADDBESS TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SECTION BY 

 THE PBESIDENT OF THE SECTION. 



A VERY brief study of the proceedings of 

 this Section in bygone years will show that 

 Presidents have exercised a very wide 

 choice in the selection of subjects. At the 

 last meeting of the Association in this city, 

 in 1870, the Biological Section had as its 

 President the late Prof. Eolleston, a man 

 whose remarkable personality made a deep 

 impression upon all who came under his 

 influence, as I have the strongest reason 

 for remembering, inasmuch as he was my 

 first teacher in zoology, and I attended his 

 lectures when but little over seventeen. 

 His address was most characteristic, glanc- 

 ing over a great variety of subjects, literary 

 as well as scientific, and abounding in quo- 

 tations from several languages, living and 

 dead. A very different style of address 

 was that delivered by the distinguished zo- 

 ologist who presided over the meeting. 

 Prof. Huxley took as his subject '■ The His- 

 tory of the Kise and Progress of a Single 

 Biological Doctrine.' 



Of these two types I selected the latter 

 as my example, and especially desired to 

 attempt the discussion, however inade- 

 quate, of some difficulty which confronts 

 the zoologist at the very outset, when he 

 begins to reason from the facts around him 



* Liverpool, 1896. 



