SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Nbwoomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering ; 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physios; R. H. Thdrston, Engineering; Ira Remsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; Henry F. Osborn, Paleontology ; W. K. 



Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology; S. H. Scudder, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. 



Brixton, Botany; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



J. S. Billings, Hygiene; J. McKeen Cattbll, Psychology; 



J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, February 2, 1900. 



CONTENTS: 



Elliott Coues: Dr. J. A. Allen 161 



The New Department of Vertebrate Paleontology of 



the Carnegie Museum ; Dr. J. L. WoKTMANN.. 163 

 An International Plan for the Future Study for the 



Variation of Latitude : Dr. Geo. A. Hill 166 



The American Morphological Society : Professor 



J. S. KiNGSLEY 167 



Scientific Books : — 



Leitfaden der Kartenentwurfslehre : JDn. A. LiN- 

 DENKOHL. Bibot's, The Evolution of General 



Ideas: Joseph Jastrow. Books Beceiwd 181 



Scientific Journals and Articles 187 



Societies and Academies : — 



Geological Society of America : F. L. Ran- 

 SOME, David White. Biological Society of 

 Washington : T. W. Stanton. Chemical So- 

 ciety of Washington: Wm. A. Krug. The 

 New York Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety : DurAND Woodman. Zoological Club 

 of the University of Chicago : De. C. M. Child. 



Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 187 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Buckley on the Building and Ornamental Stones 

 of Wisconsin : C. R. Van Hise. Hydrostatic 

 vs. Lilhopiestic Theory of Gas Well Pressure : 

 Professor Arthur M. Miller. Hearing in 

 Ants: Professor Maynard M. Metoalf.... 191 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. L. H 194 



Cambridge University 195 



Graduate Study and the Smithsonian Institution 195 



The Missouri Botaniial Garden 196 



Scientific Notes and News 197 



University and Educational News 200 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Profes- 

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



ELLIOTT COUES. 

 Elliott Coues, the eminent ornithologist, 

 died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 

 Md., December, 25, 1899, at the compara- 

 tively early age of 57 years. Dr. Coues 

 was born in Portsmouth, N. H., September 

 9, 1842. In 1853 his father, Samuel El- 

 liott Coues, removed with his family to 

 Washington, D. C, where Dr. Coues was 

 educated. He was fitted for college at the 

 Jesuit Seminary, now known as Gonzaga 

 College, and in 1857 entered what is now 

 the Columbian University, taking his de- 

 gree of A. B. in 1861, and his medical de- 

 gree in 1863, and receiving later from the 

 same institution the honorary degrees of 

 M. A., and Ph.D. While yet a medical stu- 

 dent he was enlisted as a medical cadet, and 

 soon after graduation was appointed assist- 

 ant surgeon in the United States Army, 

 his first station being Fort Whipple, Ari- 

 zona. Later he was assigned to Fort Macon, 

 North Carolina, and afterwards to Fort 

 McHenry, Baltimore. In 1873 he was or- 

 dered to Fort Randall, Dakota, and thence 

 assigned as surgeon and naturalist to the 

 United States Northern Boundary Commis- 

 sion, which surveyed the line of the forty- 

 ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods 

 westward to the Rocky Mountains. The 

 following six years were spent in Washing- 

 ton, the first two in the preparation of the 

 scientific report of the Northern Boundary 

 Survey, on the conclusion of which he was 



