256 Scientific Intelligence. 



G. F, Wright: Discussion of the relics from the sands deposits on the Lalor 

 farm. 



H.C.Mercer: Report of an examination of the trenches dug on the Lalor 

 farm, July 25-29. 



Thomas Wilson : Investigation in the land deposits of the Lalor field. Origin 

 of art as manifested in the work of prehistoric man. 



R D. Salisbury : Geologic age of the relic-bearing deposits at Trenton, N. J. 



F. H. CushinG: Genesis of implement-making. 



H. P. Parmelee: Prehistoric implements from Charlevoix, Michigan. 



W. K. Morehead : An archseologic map of Ohio. 



Alice C. Fletcher: The import of the totem — a study of the Omaha tribe. 

 Right of adoption as practiced by the Osage tribe 



D. C. Worcester: The Tagbanuas of the Philippines. The Mangyan of the 

 Philippines. 



W. W. Tooker: The significance of Johu Eliot's Natick. 



A. Hrdlicka: Anthropologic work of New York State pathological institute. 

 Description of an ancient skeleton found in adobe-deposits in the valley of Mexico. 



H. T. Smith: Ethnologic arrangement of archseologic material. Popular anthro- 

 pology in museums. 



Lightner Witmer : Experimental analysis of the relations of rate of move- 

 ment to certain other mental and physical processes. 



J. McK. Cattell : Statistical study of eminent men. 



Carl Lumholtz: Case of trepanning in northwestern Mexico. 



0. T. Mason : Artificialization of animals and plants. 



Section I. Economic Science and Statistics. 



W. H. Hale: Civil service reform. (1) Conflict with the spoils system in the 

 State of New York. (2) Relation of the system to the question of the State and 

 municipal ownership of the quasi-public works. 



Mary Forster: The competition of gratuitous workers. Economic position 

 of women. 



C. P. Hart: Labor restrictions as potent factors in social evolution. 



L. Irwell: Racial determination: The increase of suicide. 



Henry Farquhar: Wheat consumption in the United States. 



H. W. Wiley : True meaning of the sugar schedule of the new tariff 



Marcus Benjamin: Contributions to the development of the meterology by 

 the Smithsonian Institution 



1. P. Roberts: The promotion of agricultural science. 



C. P. Gillette: Weights of bees and the loads they carry. 

 W. R. Lazenbt: Annual growth of forest trees. 

 C. C. James: The municipal system of Ontario. 

 Archibald Blue: Note on the silver question. 



B. W. DeCourcy: The U. S. idea in laying out the public lands and the evils 

 resulting therefrom. 



2. The Transactions of the American Microscopical Society ', 

 volume xviii. — This volume contains the report of the nine- 

 teenth annual meeting held at Pittsburgh in August, 1896, 

 and gives in full a large number of papers with the discussions 

 which they called out. The presidential address by A. Clifford 

 Mercer discusses the experimental study of aperture as a factor in 

 microscopic vision, and is accompanied by a series of plates giv- 

 ing reproductions of photomicrographs. 



