970 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 364. 



C. William Beebe ; 'Mocking-bird Notes,' by 

 Lucy Gould Baldwin ; ' A New Device for Se- 

 curing Bird's Pictures,' by Frank M. Chapman ; 

 ' Bird Life in the Klondike,' by Tappan Adney, 

 and a poem ' On Hearing a Winter Wren Sing 

 in Winter,' by Lynn Ten Sprague. ' Birds and 

 Seasons ' now gives place to ' How to Name the 

 Birds,' studies of the families of Passeres, by 

 Frank M. Chapman, the first of a series of 

 papers on identification. In the Department 

 for Young Observers, E. W. Sinnott tells of ' My 

 Bird Eestaurant,' while many notes and re- 

 views and an account of the New York meet- 

 ing of the American Ornithologists' Union com- 

 plete a large and well-illustrated number. The 

 frontispiece of a ptarmigan on its nest deserves 

 particular mention as a fine example of pi'otec- 

 tive coloration. 



The Museums Journal of Great Britain contains 

 a brief but suggestive article by F. W. Eudder 

 ' On the Registration of Type Specimens by 

 Local Scientific Societies,' showing the desira- 

 bility of having published records of types in 

 the possession of societies or individuals. E. 

 M. Holmes contributes a paper ' On the Ar- 

 ranging and Indexing of Scientific Pamphlets 

 in Museum Libraries,' a subject which has been 

 pretty well worked out in the United States. 



D. P. H. discusses ' Hygiene as a Subject for 

 Museum Illustration ' and there are a large 

 number of notes froin many museums in various 

 parts of the world. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 

 CALENDAR. 



The American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. A meeting of the council will be held at the 

 Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago, on the 

 afternoon of January 1. Section H (Anthropology) 

 "will meet in the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago 

 (December 31 and January 1 and 2). The next regular 

 meeting of the Association will be held at Pittsburg, 

 Pa. (June 28 to July 3). A winter meeting is plan- 

 ned to be held at Washington during the convocation 

 week of 1902-3. 



The American Society of Naturalists will hold its an- 

 nual meeting at the University of Chicago (Decem- 

 ber 31 and January 1). In conjunction with it will 

 meet the Naturalists of the Central States and several 

 affiliated societies, including the American Morpho- 

 logical Society (beginning on January 1) ; The Amer- 

 ican Physiological Society (December 30 and 31) ; 



The American Psychological Association and the 

 Western Philosophical Association (December 31 and 

 January 1 and 2) ; The Society of American Bacteriol- 

 ogists (December 31 and January 1), and The Amer- 

 ican Association of Anatomists (December 31 and 

 January 1 and 2). 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America will meet in Washington (beginning on De- 

 cember 30). 



The Geological Society of America will meet at 

 Eochester, N. Y. (December 31 and January 1 and 2). 



The American Chemical Society will meet at the 

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (December 

 30 and 31). 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology 

 will hold its fifth annual meeting at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City (December 31 and January 1 

 and 2). 



WINTER MEETING OP SECTION H, ANTHRO- 

 POLOGY, OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA- 

 TION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE. 



The Secretary has received the following 

 titles of papers for presentation at the meeting 

 to be held in Chicago, December 31, 1901, and 

 January 1-2, 1902 : 



' The Beginnings of Anthropology ' : W J McGee. 



' Twenty Years of Section H ' : George Grant 

 MacCurdy. 



' The Exhibit of Hopi Ceremonies in the Field 

 Columbian Museum ' : George A. Dorsey. 



' On Some Painted Stone Slabs from the Graves of 

 the Euins of Walpi ' : C. L. Owen. 



' Basketry Designs in Northern California ' : Po- 

 land B. Dixon. 



' Pueblo Indian Settlements near El Pas(j, Texas ' : 

 J. Walter Fewkes. 



' Field Work in Arizona, 1901 ' : WALTER HouGH. 



' The Anthropological Work of the Hyde Expedi- 

 tion ' : Ales Hrdlicka. - 



' Some Observations concerning the Navaho Blanket 

 Industry ' : Frank Russell. 



' Certain Forms of Winged-Perforated Slate Ob- 

 jects ' : Warren K. Moorehead. 



' The Variability of Anthropometric Types ' : 

 Franz Boas. 



' A Voice Tonometer ' : C. E. Seashore. 



' The Psychological Elements of Visual Space 

 Orientation About a Horizontal Axis ' : EoBERT 

 MacDougall. 



' The Sherman Anthropological Collection, Hol- 

 yoke, Mass. ' : George Grant MacCurdy. 



' The Significance of the Cross ' : Paul Carus. 



