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6. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 

 XII. Part I. Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North 

 America, including their transformations and origin of the larval 

 markings and armature. Part III. Families Ceratocampidse (ex- 

 clusive of Ceratocampince), Saturniidse, Hemileucidae, and Brah- 

 maeidse ; by Alpheus S. Packard, edited by Theodore D. A. 

 Cockerell. Pp. ix, 516 ; 113 pis. — Earlier parts of this great 

 work by the late Professor Packard are contained in volumes VII 

 and IX of these Memoirs. 



7. Samuel Franklin Fmmons Memorial Fellowship. — The 

 friends of the late Dr. Emmons have established a fund whose 

 income may be used in support of a fellowship to promote inves- 

 tigations in geology, especially on the economic side. The choice 

 of the fellow and expenditure of the income are entrusted to a 

 committee consisting of Professors J. F. Kemp, J. D. Irving, and 

 Waldemar Lindgren. The committee is prepared to award in 

 March, 1915, a fellowship of $1,000 for the year July 1, 1915, to 

 June 30, 1916, inclusive. Applications, stating the problem pro- 

 posed for study, must be made on blanks furnished by the Secre- 

 tary of Columbia University, New York City. These, accompanied 

 by testimonials and statements of the applicant's qualifications, 

 will be submitted to the committee on March 1, 1915. The inves- 

 tigation (to be made under the oversight of the committee) may 

 be taken at anyplace or institution preferred by the holder of 

 the fellowship and approved by the committee. The applicant 

 must give his entire time and energies to the problem selected, 

 but the results may be used as a dissertation for the degree of 

 Ph.D. in an approved university. 



8. Feeblemindedness: Its Causes and Consequences / by 

 Henry Herbert Goddard, Ph.D. Pp. 599. New York, 1914 

 (The Macmillan Co.). — This book will take its place by Seguin's 

 " Idiocy and its Treatment by the Physiological Method," as one 

 of the distinctive contributions of America to the many-sided 

 subject of feeblemindness. Dr. Goddard is Director of the 

 department of Research of the Vineland (N. J.) Training School 

 for feebleminded boys and girls, and this new publication is a 

 report of five years of investigation into the origin of feeble- 

 mindness. 



The work is in the nature of a case book : in it 327 unselected 

 cases of high, low and middle grade mental defect are described 

 and family-charted (pp. 4*7-435) as the basis for a statistical and 

 critical analysis of the causes of feeblemindedness. Of all causes 

 feeblemindedness in the ancestors is the most potent, accounting 

 for about 65 per cent of all the cases. The author considers 

 direct heredity the cause least open to question. Neuropathic 

 ancestry (insanity, epilepsy, neuroses, migraine, etc.) also plays a 

 large part in the production of feeblemindedness, but the data 

 cast doubt on the importance of alcohol, syphilis, and traumatism 

 as causative factors. 



The question "Is Feeblemindedness a Unit Character?" is raised 

 and answered somewhat hesitatingly in the affirmative ; tables 



