374 i General Notes. 
“ Any person who has conducted and published an original 
research in Physiology or Histology (including Pathology and 
experimental Therapeutics and experimental research in Hygiene), 
or who has promoted and encouraged Physiological research, and 
who isa resident of North America, shall be eligible for elections 
as an ordinary member of the Society.” 
It will be observed that histologyoa subject almost purely mor- 
phological, is included (doubtless frm its fundamental usefulness 
to the physiologist), while nothing is said of embryology, which, 
though largely physiological, has passed almost wholly into the 
hands of morphologists. The name “ American,” moreover, seems 
here better justified by the geographical limit adopted than is usual 
in the case of such organizations. 
THE PLACE or BACTERIOLOGY IN MODERN Scrence.—The 
preceding paragraphs may serve to show to which hemisphere of 
the great biological globe this new science belongs. -For if bacte- 
riology has a place anywhere, it is surely in experimental pathology 
and experimental hygiene. 
Botanically speaking, bacteria are of no unusual interest on the 
morphological side. They are too small and too undifferentiated to 
yield great morphological harvests, at least with our present means 
of study. But from the physiological side they are just now with- 
out a parallel among living things, both in interest and in import- 
ance. The deeds which they do, the marvellous effects which they 
produce, are out of all proportion to their apparent anatomy. Some 
of the steps in the progress of this new physiological science will 
hereafter noted in this department, and workers are cordially 
invited to send to its editor brief notes, or items of interesting news 
in bacteriology. 
ARCHAZOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY.’ 
At the late meeting of the Society of Anthropology, Washington, 
D. C., interesting papers were read,—one by Mr. H. M. Reynolds 
on the subject of Algonquin metal-smiths. The writer treated with - 
care the important question whether the Indians were acquainted 
with the art of smelting copper. He argued that the working of 
the copper-mines of Lake Superior was not of such high antiquity 
as has been supposed, and may have been continued until compara- 
tively modern Indian times. “The other paper was by Mr. Jeremiah 
Curtin, on Moqui myths. 
1 This department is edited by Thomas Wilson, Esq., Smithsonian In- — 
stitution, Washington, D.C. 
