Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy, University of Glasgow. President of the on influence of examinations on teach-, Mr. Balfour, who presided over the ing, and on the course of experimental, meeting, remarked that the progeny of observational and practical studies every man who won his way from the most suitable for elementary schools, lowest ranks into the middle class was and one on conditions of health in likely to diminish because of later marschools. riages in that class. Hence it seemed that, as the state so contrived education as to allow this 'rising' from a lower to upper class, by so much did it do something to diminish the actual quality of the breed. It was, of course, not an argument against the state's attitude towards education in this respect; but there was, or seemed to be, no escape from the rather melancholy conclusion that everything done towards opening up careers to those of the lower classes did something towards the deterioration of the race. In a survey such as this, it has of course only been possible to select from the programs and printed abstracts a few topics from the large number which They indi A special session of the anthropolog ical section was devoted to the question of an anthropometric survey of Great Britain and the alleged deterioration of the people. Mr. J. Gray outlined a plan that had been presented to the Privy Council committee according to which the United Kingdom would be divided into 400 districts, in each of which a representative sample of about 1,000 adults of each sex would be subjected to a large number of measurements and observations. The whole of the school children would be measured, | because a thousand of each sex for each age interval of one year would be required, which would amount to about the whole of the school population. | came before the sections. The survey would be completed once every ten years, and the total number measured in that time would be about 800,000 adults and 8,000,000 children. It is much to be hoped that the work of the Bureau of American Ethnology may be enlarged so that a similar survey may be made in the United States. Professor D. J. Cunningham and Dr. F. C. Shrubsall read papers, the latter discussing the relations of the blond and brunette types and the fact that the former tends to disappear in cities. cate, however, the general subjects now engaging the attention of scientific men and call to mind the names of a few of the leaders of science of Great Britain. It seems that on the whole the more eminent British men of science are more likely to attend the meeting of their general association and to take a part in its proceedings than is the case in this country, and it appears also that Great Britain has, at least in the physical sciences, more eminent men than we have. INDEX. NAMES OF CONTRIBUTORS ARE PRINTED IN SMALL CAPITALS. ABBOTT, FRANCIS M., Three Decades of 86. Agriculture 86, 189, 478. ALUMNA, Alumna's Children, 45; AN- Art in Industry, FRANK T. CARLTON, Arts and Science, International Con- BALFOUR, ARTHUR JAMES, Reflections BALFOUR, HENRY, Ethnological Work of BATESON, WILLIAM, Heredity and Evo- BEACH, FREDERICK E., The Study of Beauty, Preservation of, J. MADISON Berzelium, Carolinium, Thorium, 188. Calorimeter, Respiration, Developments Cambridge, University, The New Build- ings of, 182; Meeting of the British CAMPBELL, W. W., Total Solar Eclipse Carolinium, Thorium and Berzelium, 188. Chattanooga Campaigns of the Civil Civil War, Physiographic Control of acteristic Curves of, ROBERT E. servation of Beauty, J. MADISON Correlation of Reflexes and the Prin- Cotton, Insect Enemies of, 189. DARWIN, FRANCIS, The Perception of De Vries's Theory of Mutations, A. A. Dextrality and Sinistrality, GEORGE M. Discovery and Invention, CHARLES Á. Discussion and Shorter Articles, 279, Dissociation, Electrolytic, The Develop- Ear, Human, Why is it Immobile? Eliot, President, 93. Energy, Human Conservation of, Pre- English, Spelling, A Question of Pref- Etna, Virgil's, A Second Century Criti- Evolutionists, Some Eighteenth Cen- LIAMS, 74, 170, 269; Copernicus, ED- HOLDEN, EDWARD S., Copernicus, 109; HUBER, JOHN B., The Great White HUBRECHT, A. A. W., Hugo de Vries's Identification, The Value of Teeth as Industry, Art in, FRANK T. CARLTON, Insect Enemies of Cotton, 189. International Congress of Arts and Sci- Japanese Zoological Station at Misaki, JORDAN, DAVID STARR, College of the Jubilee of the University of Wisconsin, KINGERY, H. M., Saving the Missis- KROPOTKIN, P. Geology and Geo-bot- of Lakes of New Zealand, KIETII LUCAS, Flower, Sir William, 281. LAMB, HORACE, Mathematical Physics Geography, The Mississippi's Source, GOULD, GEORGE, M., Dextrality and Gravity, the Force of, Perception of, LOVEJOY, ARTHUR, Some Eighteenth Magyar, Hebrew and Levantine Immi- gration, ALLAN MCLAUGHLIN, 432. Matter, Reflections suggested by the MCCAW, WALTER D., Walter Reed, 262. Immigration,. |