SCIENCE 



Editobial 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. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 



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



Friday, November 6, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



George Brown Goode : Theo. Gill, S. P, Lang- 

 ley 661 



British Association for the Advancement of Science : — 

 Address to the Zoological Section hy the President of 

 the Section ( concluded ): E. B. POULTON 668 



Plans for the Proposed Zoological Park in New For A;.. 681 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



Glacial Sand Plains about Narragansett Bay ; To- 

 pographic Terms of Spanish America ; Mature and 

 Immature Geography ; Glacial Action and Shifting 

 Divides in the Schwarzwald : W. M. DAVIS 682 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Indian Question; Anthropology of French Poly- 

 nesia; The Late Dr. A. H. Post : D. G. BEINTON..684 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry ; J. L. H 685 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



A Building for the Scientific Societies of New York ; 

 Specialism at the British Association ; General 686 



University and Educational News 691 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



A Beprehensible Method of Determining Priority of 

 Pviblication : J. A. Allen 691 



Scientific Literature : — 



Geological Survey of New Jersey : J. F. Kemp. 

 Nevius on Demon Possession : D. G. Beinton. 

 Eichhorn on Etymologies : Feanz Boas 693 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Neio York Academy of Science: — Section of 

 Geology and Mineralogy : J. F. Kebip ; Section 

 of Anthropology, Psychology and Philology : LIV- 

 INGSTON Faeeand 695 



New Books 696 



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. 



GEOBGE BROWN GOODE. 



The grievous loss to the scientific world 

 of Dr. George Brown Goode has already- 

 been recorded in Science. At the request 

 of the editor I now add a notice of some of 

 the prominent features of his biography 

 and an estimate of his scientific works. 



For the biographical portion (I.) I am in- 

 debted to Dr. Marcus Benjamin. 



In the untimely death of Dr. G. Brown 

 Goode, American science mourns the loss of 

 one of its most distinguished representa- 

 tives. ISTo more, and equally no less, can 

 be said of the man whose best years seemed 

 as yet unlived, when he was suddenly 

 stricken with pneumonia and died a victim 

 of that cruel disease at his home on Lanier 

 Heights, in Washington City, on Sunday 

 evening, September 6. 



George Brown Goode was born in New- 

 Albany, Ind., on February 13, 1851. His 

 ancestry was colonial and he traced with 

 pride his paternal line to John Goode, of 

 Yarina Parish, in Virginia, who was a 

 soldier under Bacon in 1676, in the first 

 armed uprising of Americans against the 

 oppressions of royal authority. On his 

 mother's side he was descended from the 

 Crane family of New Jersey, of which Ste- 

 phen Crane was one of the most conspicu- 

 ous representatives of that colony in the 

 events that led to the war of the Eevolution. 



