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Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy, University of Glasgow.
Economic Science and Statistics Section.

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
College Women, 350.
Academy, Prussian, of Science and the
Fine Arts, EDWARD F. WILLIAMS, 74.
Agricultural Work in the Philippines,

86.

Agriculture 86, 189, 478.

ALUMNA, Alumna's Children, 45; AN-
OTHER ALUMNA, 279.
Antarctic Exploration, 87.
ARRHENIUS, SVANTE, The Development
of the Theory of Electrolytic Dis-
sociation, 385.
Arrhenius, Professor, Scientific Work
of, 89.

Art in Industry, FRANK T. CARLTON,
414.

Arts and Science, International Con-
gress of, SIMON NEWCOMB, 466.
Astronomy, Development of a New
Method of Research, GEORGE E. HALE,
5; Total Solar Eclipse of August 30,
1905, W. W. CAMPBELL, 97.

BALFOUR, ARTHUR JAMES, Reflections
suggested by the New Theory of Mat-
ter, 495.

BALFOUR, HENRY, Ethnological Work of
Lane Fox, 437.

BATESON, WILLIAM, Heredity and Evo-
lution, 522.

BEACH, FREDERICK E., The Study of
Physics, 52.

Beauty, Preservation of, J. MADISON
TAYLOR, 397.

Berzelium, Carolinium, Thorium, 188.
Birth Rate, Alumna's Children, AN
ALUMNA, 45; ANOTHER ALUMNA, 279;
Three Decades of College Women,
FRANCES M. ABBOTT, 350.
Botany, English Herbals, AGNES ROB-
ERTSON, 65; Geo-Botany of Asia, P.
KROPOTKIN, 68; Some Plants which
entrap Insects, FORREST SHREVE, 417.
BOWEN, EDWIN W., A Question of Pref-
erence in English Spelling, 38.
British Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, A Traveler's View
of, HENRY S. PRITCHETT, 484; The
Cambridge Meeting of, 560; Presi-
dent's Address, 562; The Work of
the Sections, 565.

Calorimeter, Respiration, Developments
in the, 185.

Cambridge, University, The New Build-

ings of, 182; Meeting of the British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, 560; Traveler's View of,
HENRY S. PRITCHETT, 484; Presi-
dent's Address, 562; The Work of
the Sections, 565.

CAMPBELL, W. W., Total Solar Eclipse
of August 30, 1905, 97.
CARLTON, FRANK T., Art in Industry,
414.

Carolinium, Thorium and Berzelium,

188.

Chattanooga Campaigns of the Civil
War, The Physiographic Control of,
FREDERICK V. EMERSON, 148.
Children, Alumna's, AN ALUMNA, 45;
ANOTHER ALUMNA, 279.

Civil War, Physiographic Control of
the Chattanooga Campaigns of the,
FREDERICK V. EMERSON, 148.
College, of the West, DAVID STARR
JORDAN, 27; Women, Three Decades
of, FRANCES M. ABBOTT, 350.
Composition, The Significance of Char-

acteristic Curves of, ROBERT E.
MORITZ, 132; T. C. MENDENHALL, 373.
Conservation of Human Energy, Pre-

servation of Beauty, J. MADISON
TAYLOR, 397.
Consumption, The Great White Plague,
JOHN B. HUBER, 298.
Copernicus, EDWARD S. HOLDEN, 109.

Correlation of Reflexes and the Prin-
ciples of the Common Path, C. S.
SHERRINGTON, 549.

Cotton, Insect Enemies of, 189.
Curves of Composition, Characteristic,
on the Significance of, ROBERT E.
MORITZ, 132; T. C. MENDENHALL, 373.

DARWIN, FRANCIS, The Perception of
the Force of Gravity by Plants, 532.
DEAN, BASHFORD, Japanese Zoological
Station at Misaki, 195.

De Vries's Theory of Mutations, A. A.
W. HUBRECHT, 205.

Dextrality and Sinistrality, GEORGE M.
GOULD, 360.

Discovery and Invention, CHARLES Á.
PARSONS,

Discussion and Shorter Articles, 279,
373.

Dissociation, Electrolytic, The Develop-
ment of the Theory of, SVANTE ARR-
HENIUS, 385.

Ear, Human, Why is it Immobile?
WALTER SMITH, 228.
EASTMAN, CHARLES R., A Second Cen-
tury Criticism of Virgil's Etna, 452.
Eclipse, Total Solar, of August 30,
1905, W. W. CAMPBELL, 97.
Education, The College of the West,
DAVID STARR JORDAN, 27; Scientific,
in Schools, 190; Chicago School of,
285; More Men in Public Schools,
RICHARD L. SANDWICK, 443.
Electrolytic Dissociation, The Develop-
ment of the Theory of, SVANTE ARR-
HENIUS, 385.

Eliot, President, 93.

Energy, Human Conservation of, Pre-
servation of Beauty, J. MADISON
TAYLOR, 397.

English, Spelling, A Question of Pref-
erence in, EDWIN W. BOWEN, 38;
Herbals, AGNES ROBERTSON, 65.
Entomology, Economic, The San Jose
Scale, C. L. MARLATT, 306.
Ethnological Work of Lane Fox, HENRY
BALFOUR, 437.

Etna, Virgil's, A Second Century Criti-
cism of, CHARLES R. EASTMAN, 452.
Evolution, of the Human Hand, ROBERT
MACDOUGALL, 457; Hugo De Vries's
Theory of Mutations, A. A. W. Hu-
BRECHT, 205; and Heredity, WILLIAM
BATESON.

Evolutionists, Some Eighteenth Cen-
tury, ARTHUR LOVEJOY, 238, 323.
Exploration, Antarctic, 87.

LIAMS, 74, 170, 269; Copernicus, ED-
WARD S. HOLDEN, 109.

HOLDEN, EDWARD S., Copernicus, 109;
The Conflict of Science and Religion,
290.

HUBER, JOHN B., The Great White
Plague, 298.

HUBRECHT, A. A. W., Hugo de Vries's
Theory of Mutations, 205.

Identification, The Value of Teeth as
Means of, ALTON HOWARD THOMPSON,
161.
Immigration, ALLAN MCLAUGHLIN, 164,
224, 342, 432.

Industry, Art in, FRANK T. CARLTON,
414.

Insect Enemies of Cotton, 189.
Insects, Plants which entrap, FORREST
SHREVE, 417.

International Congress of Arts and Sci-
ence, SIMON NEWCOMB, 466.
Invention and Discovery, CHARLES A.
PARSONS, 553.

Japanese Zoological Station at Misaki,
BASHFORD DEAN, 195

JORDAN, DAVID STARR, College of the
West, 27.

Jubilee of the University of Wisconsin,
282.

KINGERY, H. M., Saving the Missis-
sippi's Source, 318.

KROPOTKIN, P. Geology and Geo-bot-
any of Asia, 68.

of Lakes of New Zealand, KIETII LUCAS,
370.

Flower, Sir William, 281.
Fox, Lane, Ethnological Work
HENRY BALFOUR, 437.
FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS W., Mountains
and Mankind, 543.

LAMB, HORACE, Mathematical Physics
of the Nineteenth Century, 507.
Latin Immigrants, Hebrew and other,
ALLAN MCLAUGHLIN, 341.
Le Conte Memorial Lodge, 379.
Levantine, Magyar and Hebrew Immi-
gration, ALLAN MCLAUGHLIN, 432.

Geography, The Mississippi's Source,
H. M. KINGERY, 318; The Lakes of
New Zealand, KIETH LUCAS, 370.
Geological Photographs, 382.
Geology and Geo-botany of Asia, P. Linnaeus, 91.
KROPOTKIN, 68.

GOULD, GEORGE, M., Dextrality and
Sinistrality, 360.

Gravity, the Force of, Perception of,
by Plants, FRANCIS DARWIN, 532.
Gutta-percha and Rubber in the Philip
pines, 478.

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LOVEJOY, ARTHUR, Some Eighteenth
Century Evolutionists, 238, 323.
LUCAS, KIETH, The Lakes of New Zea-
land, 370.

Magyar, Hebrew and Levantine Immi-

gration, ALLAN MCLAUGHLIN, 432.
MARLATT, C. L., The Discovery of the
Native Home of the San Jose Scale
and the Importation of its Natural
Enemy, 306.

Matter, Reflections suggested by the
New Theory of, ARTHUR JAMES BAL-
FOUR, 495.

MCCAW, WALTER D., Walter Reed, 262.
MACDOUGALL, ROBERT, Evolution of the
Human Hand, 457.
MCLAUGHLIN, ALLAN,
164, 224, 341, 432.

Immigration,.

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