SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 

 OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 

 FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, March 24, 1905. 



CONTENTS: 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: 

 Section H — Anthropology : George H. 

 Pepper 441 



Section I — Social and Economic Science : Dr. 

 John Franklin Crowell 44t5 



The Saint Petersburg Conference on the Explo- 

 ration of the Atmosphere: Dr. A. Lawrence 

 RoTCH 461 



Scientific Books: — 



Leach's Food Inspection and Analysis: Dr. 

 Wm. Frear. Angell's Psychology: Pro- 

 fessor Edward L. Thorndike 465 



Scientific Journals and Articles 469 



Societies and Academies : — 



The New York Academy of Sciences, Sec- 

 tion of Anthropology and Psychology : Pro- 

 fessor R. S. WooDWOETH. The Torrey Bo- 

 tanical Club: Edward W. Berry. The Sci- 

 ence Club of the Uni versity of Wisconsin : 

 F. W. WOLL 469 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Blunders in the Scientific Record: Dr. 

 Leonard Stejneger. The Metric Fallacy: 

 Henry B. Hedeick. A Request for Ma- 

 terial: Professor Harris Hawthorne 

 Wilder 470 



Special Articles: — 



Elliptical Human Erythrocytes : Dr. Melvin 

 Dresbach 473 



Quotations : 



Compulsory Greek at Cambridge 475 



Students of the German Universities 476 



The Geographical and Geological Surrey of 

 Sao Paulo 476 



The Program of Studies of Columbia College 476 



Scientific Notes and News 477 



University and Educational Neics 480 



MSS. inteuded for pubhcatiou aud books, etc., intended 

 for review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 son-on -Hu Ison, N. V. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 SECTION H. ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Section H of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science held its 

 regular sessions at the fifty-fourth meeting 

 of the association, which was in progress 

 in Philadelphia, Pa., during convocation 

 week. The American Anthropological As- 

 sociation and the American Folk Lore So- 

 ciety affiliated with Section H. 



The officers for the meeting were as fol- 

 lows : 



V ice-President — Walter Hough. 



Secretary — George H. Pepper. 



Member of Council — C. B. Moore. 



Sectional Committee — ^M. H. Saville, vice-presi- 

 dent, 1904; George H. Pepper, secretary, 1904; 

 Walter Hough, vice-president, 1905; George H. 

 Pepper, secretary, 1905-'08; F. W. Hodge, W J 

 McGee, Alice C. Fletcher, George Grant MacCurdy, 

 Ales Hrdlicka. 



Member of General Committee— 'B. T. B. Hyde. 



Press Secretary — Secretary of Section. 



Officers of the American Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation — President, W. H. Holmes in the absence 

 of W J McG^e. Secretary, George Grant MacCurdy. 



Officers of the American Folk Lore Society — 

 President, George A. Dorsey in the absence of 

 George Lyman Kittredge. Secretary, W. W. 

 Newell. 



The address of the retiring vice-presi- 

 dent of Section H, Marshall H. Saville, 

 entitled 'Mexican and Central American 

 Archeology,' was delivered Friday after- 

 noon. 



WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28. 



The afternoon session began with the 

 paper on 'Anthropometric Work at the St. 

 Louis Exposition: (a) Sense Tests of Vari- 



