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cated natural selection as the sole cause of or- 

 ganic evolution and pronounced the inheritance 

 of acquired characters to be impossible. Mr. 

 Wallace called his book ' Darwinism.' In time 

 these opinions were called the ' New Darwin- 

 ism,' although some of them were quite at va- 

 riance with those always held by Darwin up to 

 his death. 



A little later Dr. Eomanes' book called 'After 

 Darwinism' appeared, in which he amplified the 

 views held by Darwin in a way to which, I 

 think, Darwin himself would have agreed. 

 This also has been called by some the ' New- 

 Darwinism' with, as I think, a much better 

 right to the title than those advocated in Wal- 

 lace's book, which should have been called 

 Wallaoeism. I object to Mr. H. Spencer and 

 others using the term New-Darwinism for Wal- 

 lace's opinions ; for, when it is shown that 

 these are wrong, the unscientific public will 

 naturally conclude that Darwin was also wrong, 

 although he would himself have repudiated 

 this New- Darwinism. 



f. w. hutton. 



Canterbury Mdseum, 

 Christ Church, New Zealand, 

 February, 21, 1900. 



' THE ESKIMO OF SMITH SOUND. ' 



To The Editor of Science : The attention 

 of the readers of Science is specially invited to 

 a pamphlet of sixty pages, published by the 

 American Museum of Natural History, entitled 

 'The Eskimo of Smith Sound,' by A. L. 

 Kroeber. The Smith Sound Eskimo stand 

 ethnologically between those of Greenland and 

 the Central Eskimo and form a transition from 

 the latter to the former. The theory of Holm 

 that the Angmagsalingmiu't (East Greenlanders) 

 reached their present abode by following the 

 ice-bound shores of Northern Greenland, is held 

 to be untenable. Again, in examining Kroeber's 

 illustrations, the opinion long ago published by 

 this writer that no unsophisticated Eskimo ever 

 etched on bone, ivory or antler is sustained. 

 The small amount of engraving present is evi- 

 dently the work of steel tools. 



But, most interesting of all the accounts in 

 the pamphlet is that concerning the loss and 

 recovery of the kaiak. These Smith Sound 



Eskimo were discovered by Sir John Ross, in 

 1818, and were afterwards visited by Franklin, 

 Kane, Hayes, Hall and others. Now, none of 

 the explorers saw kaiaks in the sound. The 

 art of building them had apparently been for- 

 gotten, though the word 'kaiak' remained in 

 the language. From the time of Boss abund- 

 ance of material for the structure was at hand, 

 the environment was there begging for kaiaks, 

 but the culture-hero had to come and teach 

 them their own lost art. Between 1868 and 

 Peary's visit the Adlet (Ellesmere Land Eskimo) 

 had furnished the culture-hero and now the 

 fisherman recovers his skill. The arts of the 

 Smith Sound Eskimo are clearly set forth and 

 compared with the Central tribes of Boas, and 

 the traditions given at length. 



O. T. Mason. 



-A chronological Index. 



To THE Editor of Science : — Every scientific 

 writer who has read with open mind the entrea- 

 ties of recent writers on the subject has already 

 adopted the plan of giving the year (as well as 

 the volume) of any journal to which he has 

 occasion to refer ; few people wish to look up 

 the reference (only those who are about to write 

 on the subject), but every one who reads the 

 article at all is interested in knowing the 

 date of the contribution to the subject re- 

 ferred to — often, in fact, the reference wholly 

 loses its point from a lack of this knowl- 

 edge. Since, moreover, there are still many 

 scientific writers who do not belong to the 

 above described category, I wish to suggest that 

 it would be a work of very great value if some 

 one would issue a finding list, covering several 

 hundreds of the principal scientific journals, 

 which would enable the reader to pass at a 

 glance from volume to year. Such a list would 

 involve very little trouble on the part of who- 

 ever would be so good as to make it up, and it 

 would certainly be a very great convenience. 

 It might be printed on separate cards for separate 

 subjects, and the scientific reader could have 

 these cards (or as many of them as interested 

 him) always at his elbow. 



If both year and volume cannot be given 

 when articles are referred to (for economy of 

 space — there can be no other reason), it seems 



