444 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Report of Professor Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, for 1881; A Synopsis of the Scientific Writings of Sir William Herschel, 

 prepared by Prof. Edward S. Holden and Charles S. Hastings ; An Account of 

 Recent Progress in Geology and Mineralogy for the years 1879 and 1880, by 

 Geo. W. Hawes, Ph. D., curator of the National Museum; An Account of Re- 

 cent Progress in Physics and Chemistry for the years 1879 ^^^ 1880, by Prof. 

 Geo. F. Barker; An Account of Recent Progress in Astronomy for the years 

 1879 and 1880, by Prof. E. S. Holden; Bulletin No. 6, General Index and Sup- 

 plement to the Nine Reports on the Insects of Missouri, by Prof. Charles V. 

 Riley, M. A., Ph. D.; Apportionment under the Tenth Census of the U. S., 

 with remarks by Hon. S. S. Cox, M. C; Fourteenth Annual Report of the 

 Trustees of the Peabody Museum of American Archseology and Ethnology, Prof. 

 F. W. Putnam, Curator; Explorations in Idaho and Montana in 1878, Prof. E. 

 L. Berthoud; Science Teaching in District Schools, Prof. Paul Schweitzer, Ph. 

 D.; Priced and Classified List of Works on Political Economy and Political Sci- 

 ence, W. G. Sumner, David A. Wells, W. E. Foster, R. L. Dugdale and G. H. 

 Putnam; Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education of District No. i, 

 Denver, Colorado. 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



FIFTY YEARS' PROGRESS IN SCIENCE. 



BY SIR JOHN, LUBBOCK, PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



* * Certainly this is an opportunity on which it may be well for us to* 

 consider what have been the principal scientific results of the last half-century, 

 dwelling especially on those with which this Association is more directly con- 

 cerned, either as being the work of our own members, or as having been made 

 known at our meetings. * * My best course will be to take our differ- 

 ent Sections one by one, and endeavor to bring before you a few of the principal 

 results which have been obtained in each department. 



The Biological Section is that with which I have been most intimately asso- 

 ciated,- and with which it is, perhaps, natural that I should begin. 



Fifty years ago it was the general opinion that animals and plants came into 

 existence just as we now see them. We took pleasure in their beauty ; their 

 adaptation to their habits and mode of life in many cases could not be overlooked 

 or misunderstood. Nevertheless, the book of Nature was like some richly ilium- 



