July 29, 1887.] 



SCIENCE. 



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will make an extended trip through the North-west. He will visit 

 Denver, and will probably establish there a station for the breeding 

 of trout, then proceeding to the Columbia River, where he will in- 

 vestigate the nature of the protection afforded by the State of Oregon 

 and Washington Territoiy to its fisheries. If his investigations are 

 satisfactory', he will take immediate steps toward the establishment 

 of several propagating and distributing stations along this river. 



— The following schedule shows the location of the vessels of the 

 United States Coast Survey and the officers ordered to them : the 

 ' Bache ' and the ' Eagre ' are continuing the hydrographic work on 

 the approaches to Vineyard Sound, Mass. ; naval cadets G. R. 

 Evans and H. A. Bispham have been ordered to the 'Eagre;' 

 naval cadet G. R. Slocum and ensign J. H. Oliver have been as- 

 signed to the ' McArthur,' now working off the coast of Washington 

 Territor}' ; nax'al cadets C. S. Stansworth and J. E. Shindel have 

 been ordered to the ' Blake,' Long Island Sound ; ensigns W. B. 

 Fletcher and M. Johnson, and naval cadet Joseph Strauss, have been 

 detached from the ' Endeavor,' and ordered to the ' Gedney ' off the 

 coast of Maine ; naval cadet Robert L. Russell has been assigned 

 to the ' Scorcesby ' on the coast of North Carolina ; Lieut.-Com- 

 mander W. H. Brownson, United States hydrographic inspector, is 

 now in Portsmouth, inspecting the new launch building at that 

 place for the Coast Survey. 



— The increasing interest which is felt in anthropological science 

 is shown by the number of treatises now in course of preparation by 

 eminent writers on different branches of this science. The Marquis 

 of Nadaillac has in hand a work to be entitled ' Moeurs et Monu- 

 ments des Temps Prehistoriques.' Professor de Quatrefages is 

 busy with the second part of his ' Introduction to the Study of the 

 Human Races.' This will be followed bv a volume on the black 



tions at Washington is due to the deceased, who devoted most of 

 his time and work to their study. His numerous writings on 

 American archaeology, contained in the annual reports of the 

 Smithsonian Institution and in foreign and American journals, and 

 his recent work, ' Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North America,' 

 will always be appreciated by scientists, and secure him a prominent 

 place among American archaeologists. 



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The Dermo-Tensor Patagii Muscle. 



Circumstances over which I had no control were responsible for 

 my forwarding recently the wrong drawings which appeared in my 

 letter to Science last month (No. 229). Although the essential part 

 of my communication was perfectly cori'ect, I did not intend to have 

 the patagial muscles' in the wing of a toucan stand for those 

 structures in the wing of a passerine bird. 



If you will kindly reproduce the three figures I here send you, the 

 matter will be made quite clear. 



The lettering of these figures remains the same as in those of my 

 first communication upon this subject. In Fig. I, we have Garrod's 

 representation of the patagial muscles in the wing of a picarian 

 bird (Rhamphastos), wherein the tensor patagii longus is found 



ctt.p. 



races, by Dr. Hamy ; by one on the yellow races, by J. Montano ; 

 and by a third on the red races, by Luciep Biart. Prof. G. J. 

 Romanes is engaged on a work on mental evolution in man, and 

 Mr. C. Staniland Wake is preparing one on the law of marriage. 

 Mr. Gladstone's forthcoming volume on the greater gods of Olympos 

 is shown, by the portions already published, to have an important 

 scientific as well as literary character. 



— A geological survey has recently been established in the State 

 of Arkansas, and Mr. John C. Branner has been appointed director. 

 The prime object of the Legislature was to develop the economic 

 resources of the State ; and no provision has been made for work 

 in botany or zoology. The annual appropriation is ten thousand 

 dollars. 



— Oliver P. Jenkins, M.A., M.S., professor of biology in De Pauw 

 University, and Barton W. Evermann, M.S., professor of natural 

 science in the Indiana State Normal School, have gone to Guaymas, 

 Mex., on a zoological collecting-trip for the museums of De Pauw 

 University, the Indiana State Normal School, and the Indiana 

 University. 



— Dr. Charles Rau, curator of the archaeological department of 

 the National Museum at Washington, died a few days ago at Phila- 

 delphia. The excellent arrangement of the large prehistoric coUec- 



pretty much the same as it occurs in the claraatorial birds (//. /.). 

 Fig. 2 is my copy of this anatomist's wing-muscles in a typical 

 passerine bird {Icterus vulgaris), and a is the stump of the tendon 

 I referred to in my letter in No. 229 : it is just possible that it may 

 be intended for the tendon of the dermo-tensor patagii. Lastly, 

 in Fig. 3, I give my own dissection of the patagial muscles in the 

 wing of a typical passerine bird, where dt.p. directs attention to 

 the muscle in question. My original description of it in Science 

 is correct in all particulars ; and the points in regard to it to be 

 briefly noted are, that Garrod apparently overlooked it, and failed 

 to recognize its taxonomical value; that it is characteristic of 

 the true Passeres ; that it is absent in the Passeres mesomyodi, 

 but present in such a form as Ampelis, and again absent in the 

 Caprimulgi, Trochili, and Cypseli. To this extent it is an im- 

 portant morphological character. R. W. Shufeldt. 



Fort Wingate, N.Mex., July 8. 



Mean Heights and Body Temperatures of the Eskimo in 

 Hudson Strait. 

 Within forty miles of North Bluff, Hudson Strait, I should 

 estimate there were sixty families. On such as visited our station, 

 I carried out my determination of their heights ; and, by several 

 references to a family who resided alongside of us, I obtained the 



