WAY 20 1905 



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, May 19, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



Scientific Surveys of the Philippine Islands. . 761 



Anthropology and its Larger Problems: Dr. 

 W J McGee 770 



Scientific Books: — 



Cattell's Post-mortem Pathology: Dr. 

 Lewellys F. ]5arkek. Ames's Orchida- 

 ceae: Professor Charles E. Bessey 784 



Scientific Journals and Articles 787 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington : E. 

 L. IMoRRis. The Clemson College Science 

 Cluh: Dr. Haven Metcalf 787 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Suggestions toward a Phyto-geographic 

 Nomenclature: Dr. John W. Harshbergeb 789 



Special Articles: — 



On the Hahits of the Great Whale Shark: 

 Dr. Theo. Gill. A Faunal Survey of the 

 Forest Reserves in the Sandhill Region of 

 Nebraska and of the Lakes in that Region: 

 Dr. Robert H. Wolcott. The Mailed Cat- 

 fishes of South America: Professor C. H. 



ElGENMANN 790 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Kite-flying at Sea; Mountain Sickness; The 

 Monthly Weather Review; Floods in the 

 Sahara; The Guinea Current: Professor 

 R. Dec. Ward 



Scientific Notes and News 797 



University and Educational News 800 



MSS. inteudedfor publicatiou aud books, etc., intended 

 for review stiould be gent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 Bon-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



SCIENTIFIC SURVEYS OF THE PHILIPPINE 



ISLANDS. 



MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



To the Senate and House of Bepresenta- 

 tives: 



Circumstances have placed under the 

 control of this government the Philippine 

 Archipelago. The islands of that group 

 present as many interesting and novel ques- 

 tions with respect to their ethnology, their 

 fauna and flora, and their geology and min- 

 eral resources as any region in the world.- 

 At my request, the National Academy of 

 Sciences appointed a committee to consider 

 and report upon the desirability of insti- 

 tuting scientific explorations of the Philip- 

 pine Islands. The report of this commit- 

 tee, together with the report of the Board 

 of Scientific Surveys of the Philippine 

 Islands, including draft of a bill providing 

 for surveys of the Philippine Islands, 

 which board was appointed by me, after 

 receiving the report of the committee ap- 

 pointed by the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences, with instructions to prepare such 

 estimates and make such suggestions as 

 might appear to it pertinent in the circum- 

 stances, accompanies this message. 



The scientific surveys which should be 

 undertaken go far beyond any surveys or 

 explorations which the government of the 

 Philippine Islands, however completely 

 self-supporting, could be expected to make. 

 The surveys, while of course beneficial to 

 the people of the Philippine Islands, should 

 be undertaken as a national work for the 

 information not merely of the people of the 



