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SCIENCE. 



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that has conscious respect for ascertainable 

 facts of human nature. 



The effect of the ancient misunderstanding 

 between science and religion could not be slight. 

 In early Greek thought what we now call sci- 

 ence was all one with what we now call philos- 

 ophy and with the intellectual side of religion. 

 The sciences have been completely segregated 

 from other intellectual interests, in fact, scarcely 

 more than a century. No doubt science and 

 religion have both gained by the separation, but 

 it may reasonably be asked whether their going 

 apart, Is not, after all, a merely temporary ex- 

 pedient to enable the intellect to regain its 

 unity upon a higher plane. 



George A. Coe. 



NOETHWESTEEN UNIVEESITY. 



BOOKS BECEIVED. 



The Cell in Development and Inheritance. Edmund B. 

 Wilson. New York and London, The Macmillan 

 Company, 1900. Pp. xxi + 483. 



Lehrbuch der Zoologie. Eichaed Heetwig. Jena, 

 Gustav Fischer, 1900. Pp. xil -f 622. 11 Mark, 

 50 Pf. 



Catalogue of the Fossil Bryozoa in the Department of 

 Geology, British Museum (Natural History), Vol- 

 ume I. The Cretaceous Bryozoa. J. W. Geegoey. 

 London, The British Museum, 1899. Pp. xiv -|- 

 457 and seventeen plates. 



Catalogue of the Areiiadse. SlE Geokge F. Hampson. 

 London, The British Museum, 1900. Pp. xx + 589. 



A Monograph of Christmas Island, Physical Features and 

 Geology. Chaeles W. Andeews. London, The 

 British Museum, 1900. Pp. xiii + 337. A map 

 and twenty-two plates. 



Anatomic etphyaiologie vegetates. Ee. Belzung. Paris, 

 Alean, 1900. Pp. iii-f 1320. 



Micro-organisms and Fermentation. Alfeed JoEGEN- 

 SEN. Translated by Alex. K. Millee and A. E. 

 Lennholm. London and New York, The Macmil- 

 lan Company, 1900. Pp. vi + 318. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The Journal of the Boston Society of Medical 

 Sciences for April opens with an abstract of the 

 ' Histology of Acute Pneumonia,' by Joseph H. 

 Pratt, giving a summary of the examination of 

 fifty cases. G. B. Magrath has a preliminary 

 study of ' The Relation of Age, Physique, and 



Preliminary Training to Class Rank in Pathol- 

 ogy,' training not unnaturally seeming to have 

 the most marked bearing on scholarship. F. P. 

 Denny presents a ' Report on the Examination 

 for Diphtheria Bacilli of Cultures from Four 

 Hundred and Seventy-five Individuals,' an im- 

 portant conclusion being that while such bacilli 

 are rarely present in healthy persons, a large 

 number may be infected by healthy individ- 

 uals who do have the bacilli in their throats. 

 J. H. "Wright describes ' A Case of Multiple 

 Myeloma,' and Franklin Dexter has some ' Ad- 

 ditional Observations on the Morphology of the 

 Digestive Tract of the Cat,' while Wm. Hallock 

 Park gives the results of ' A Few Experiments 

 upon the Effect of Low Temperatures and 

 Freezing on Typhoid Bacilli,' showing that 

 they possess great powers of endurance and that 

 infection may be caused in spring by fecal ma- 

 terial thrown out in winter. The final paper, 

 by E. "W. Taylor, describes a case of ' Diffuse 

 Degeneration of the Spinal Cord.' 



The Popular Science Monthly, established in 

 1872 by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. and Dr. E. 

 L. Youmans, will hereafter be published by 

 Messrs. McClure, Phillips and Company and 

 edited by Professor J. McKeen Cattell. The 

 table of contents for June is as follows : 



Professor Woloott Gibbs, President of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. (Frontispiece.) 



Preventive Inoculation. (1) De. W. M. Haff- 



KINE. 



Professor Ewart's Penycuik Experiments. (Illus- 

 trated. ) 



Colonies and the Mother Country. (1) James 

 Collier. 



The Future of the Negro in the United States. 

 Peofessoe N. S. Shaleh. 



The Physical Geography of the Lands. Peofessoe 

 W. M. Davis. 



The New York Botanical Garden. (Illustrated.) 

 De. D. T. Mac Dougal. 



Gas and Gas Meters. (Illustrated.) Hdbeet S. 

 Wynkoop. 



The Sun's Destination. Peofessoe Haeold 

 Jacoby. 



A Biographical Sketch of an Infant. Chaeles 

 Daewin. 



Correspondence : Comparative Longevity and Great- 

 ness. Peofessoe Joseph Jasteow. School Reform. 



Scientific Literature : Chemistry ; Zoology ; Bot- 

 any; Anthropology. 



