SCIENCE 



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



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; R. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Remsen, 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, December 25, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



Science in College Entrance Examinations 929 



The Aim of Physical Chemistry : Harry C. Jones..931 



Tapirs, Past and Present : Ch AS. E ARLE 934 



On the Occurrence of Trochosphxra Solsiitialis in the 



Illinois Biver : C. A. KOFOID 935 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The English ' Eound Barrow^ Stock; Distribution 

 of Archseological Artefact in America: D. G. 



Brinton 936 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



The Monthly Weather Review ; Cloud Observations in 

 Tropical Cyclones ; Kite 3Ieteorology and Weather 

 Forecasts; Report of the Chicago Meteorological Con- 

 gress; Meteorological Work in Southwestern Russia; 



E. Dec Ward 937 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 939 



Psychological Notes: J. McK. C 939 



Scientific Notes and News 941 



University and Educational News 944 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



TJie Jura in the United States : JuLES Maecou. 

 Some Neural and Descriptive Terms : Burt G. 



Wilder 945 



Scientific Literature: — 



Carl Vogt: A. S. PACKARD. Lefevre's Num- 

 ber and its Algebra: George Bruce Hal- 

 STED. Pioneers of Science in America : Marcus 

 Benjamin. Farinan's Auto-cars : E. H. Thurs- 

 ton 947 



Scientific Journals : — 



The American Chemical Journal: J. Elliott 



Gilpin 958 



Societies and Academies : — 



Zoological Club of the University of Chicago. New 

 York A cademy of Science — Biological Section : C. 

 L. Bristol. Geological Society of Washington: 

 W. F. Morsell. Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory : Samuel Henshaw. Tlie Academy of Sci- 

 ence of St. Louis: Wm. Trelease. Science 

 Club at the University of Wisconsin: Wm. S. 

 Marshall. The Botanical Seminar of the 



University of Nebraska 959 



New Books 964 



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 COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINA- 

 TIONS. 



The advancement of science is so inti- 

 mately related to the study of science in 

 schools and colleges that the recent efforts 

 to improve and unify college entrance re- 

 quirements deserve consideration. At the 

 meeting of the National Educational Asso- 

 ciation in 1895 a committee of ten was 

 appointed, in which secondary and higher 

 education were equally represented, and this 

 committee has prepared tables (published 

 in The School Beview) giving the subjects 

 required in sixty selected colleges and uni- 

 versities. 



Courses leading to the degrees of A.B., 

 Ph.B. and B.S. are considered separately. 

 The multiplication of degrees seems to be 

 needless. In the great universities of Ger- 

 many and Great Britain the same degrees 

 are given for classical, literary, historical, 

 philosophical and scientific studies, and 

 there is no good reason why the confused 

 American system should not be simplified, 

 as has been done at Johns Hopkins, Colum- 

 bia and Stanford Universities, by giving 

 only the degrees of A.B. and Ph.D. for 

 suitable courses of liberal study. With 

 our present elective system a degree may 

 represent a given amount of culture, but it 



