32 Editors' Table. 
The mere arrangement of the houses does not, however, furnish 
sufficient protection to the timid or the warlike tribes. Artificial 
fortifications must be raised. These are of two general kinds, those 
intended for the whole village and those only for single houses. The 
former include palisades, sometimes erected at the end of the 
street, as in the Khond villages, and as is usual in Africa, sometimes 
continued around the whole settlement, when ic becomes a wall. 
The second class includes a great variety of expedents, dependent, 
chiefly, upon the ingenuity of the builder. Some, as in New Cale- 
donia, are satisfied with building a fence close to their dwellings ; 
others, as the Angain Nagas, surround themselves with a stone 
wall ; others, again, as the New Zealanders, barricade their doors 
and windows with strong bars. 
Rank and wealth have their influence upon dwellings. This is 
chiefly to be seen in their construction and size. The poor of every 
society, the lowest as well as the highest, live in meaner houses 
than do the wealthier classes. Not only will a rich man's house be 
larger than a poor man's, but in warm climates it will consist of 
more parts. The wealthy Kalmuck has a separate cooking tent, 
and the palace of a Javanese prince resembles a walled city. 
Eank is further indicated by sundry external forms ; for example, 
by the height of the dwelling, the elaboration of ornament, the 
shape and number of the roofs. The house of a Javanese chief has 
eight roofs, while the mass of the people are restricted to four. 
EDITORS' TABLE. 
EDITORS : E. D. COPE AlfD J. S. KINGSLEY. 
The American Society of Naturalists at its recent meeting in Bal- 
timore passed a resolution which requests its Executive Committee to 
consult with the corresponding representatives of certain other 
scientific bodies as to the next time and place of meeting. The 
societies referred to are all newly organized, and are : The Ameri- 
can Physiological Society, the Society of Anatomists, and the 
American Geological Society. One of these, the Geological Society, 
arranged to meet during the Christmas holidays at Ithaca, N. Y., 
and it was stated that several of the geological members of the 
American Society would probably prefer to attend the meetings of 
