1895.] Scientific News. 515 
The literature of games, a subject which has come prominently before 
the public since the remarkable exhibit of the games of all countries 
shown by Stewart Culin, in the Anthropological Building at the 
Columbian Exhibition at Chicago, will shortly receive a noteworthy 
addition in a work on “ Korean Games,” by Mr. Culin and Mr, Frank 
= Hamilton Cushing, of the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington. The 
special field of Korea has been selected for illustration from the re- 
markable survivals that are found there. Mr. Edward B. Tylor bases 
his argument as to the Asiatic origin of Aztec culture largely upon the 
similarity of the Mexican game of Patolli with the Hindoo game of 
Pachsi. The resemblances which he noted will be shown to practically 
extend over all culture, and a theory of the origin of games formulated 
as the result of a searching examination of the games of all people. 
The book will be published by subscription as an edition de luxe, with 
twenty-two full-page colored plates from brilliant pictures by a skillful 
Korean artist, and with native sketches in black and white, of corre- 
sponding games of China and Japan. 
Natural Science will be published hereafter by Messrs. Rait & Hen- 
derson Co., No. 22 St. Andrew St., Holborn Circus, London, England. 
Professor James Dwight Dana, the eminent geologist, who 
for fifty years was a professor at Yale University, died at 10.30 P. M., 
April 14, 1895, of heart failure, aged 82 years. 
Professor Dana had been ill for about eight weeks, but had, how- 
ever, been able to be about on the streets attending to his usual routine. 
On Friday after being out for a walk he returned to his home slightly 
indisposed. The family physician, Dr. J. P. C. Foster, was summoned, 
but after making an examination said that the Professor’s illness was 
nothing serious. ‘Shortly after 10 o’clock that night (April 14th), how- 
ever, there was a change in Professor Dana’s condition and, becoming 
alarmed, the members of the household sent for the physician. Dr. 
Foster went immediately, but when he arrived at Professor Dana’s 
residence he was dead. 
Although well advanced in years Professor Dana was very active. 
He was a familiar figure about the streets of New Haven, as his daily 
routine was commenced with a visit to the post office for his mail. 
When he resigned his position as professor of geology and mineral- 
ogy, the action was forced by his family because of the decline of his 
health. He had previously been asked by his friends in the Univer- 
sity to give his work up, but he declined, preferring to continue. He 
was succeeded by Professor Henry S. Williams, of Cornell. 
