the hands of the Secretary at least three months before the meeting of the Society which is to act on them. Two months before said meeting, the Secretary shall cause to be prepared and sent to each active member of the Society a list of the nominees, indicating the residence, occupation and qualifications of each and the names of those recommending him." "The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. Their duties shall be those usually performed by such officers in other bodies, and such additional duties as may be prescribed by the Constitution of this Society. They shall hold office through the annual meeting following the year of election, and until their successors have been elected and qualified. An address shall be delivered by the President at the annual meeting two years after his election." "The officers, together with the last Past-President and two members elected by the Society at its annual meeting, shall constitute a Council, which shall be charged with such duties as are prescribed by the Society, and shall represent the Society in the interval between meetings of the latter, reporting any ad interim action at the next general meeting of the Society; but acts of the Council not specified in the Constitution, or for which special power has not been conferred by the Society, shall be binding on the latter only after they have been reported and approved at such general meeting. The Council shall constitute a Publication Committee, charged with editing, publishing and distributing such publications as may be authorized by the Society, and they shall have the power to select from their own number or the membership of the Society an editor to whom they may delegate the immediate duty of editing such publications. They shall all constitute a Board of Curators for the property of the Society, subject to such rules as are provided in the Constitution or otherwise prescribed by the Society." 66 The Society shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place as the Council each year may select; and special meetings for the presentation of papers or the transaction of business, at such other times and places as the Society or Council may from time to time deem necessary." The officers for the present year are: Prof. Wm. Trelease, Missouri Botanical Garden, President; Prof. N. L. Britton, Columbia College, New York City, VicePresident; Prof. C. R. Barnes, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., Secretary. PSYCHOLOGY. The department of Philosophy and Psychology at Chicago has been made this year one of the strongest in America. Professor Dewey, formerly of the University of Michigan, has accepted a call to the Head Professorship of Philosophy; Mr. G. H. Mead, also of the University of Michigan, has been made assistant Professor of Philosophy; Mr. J. R. Angell, formerly of the University of Minnesota, has been made assistant Professor of Psychology, and Mr. S. F. McLennan has been made assistant in Psychology. ARTICLES ON SCIENCE. Among the articles of scientific interest in the popular magazines are the following: A New Flying Machine, Abram S. Maxim (Jan. Century); Want of Economy in the Lecture System, John Trowbridge; The Genius of France, Havelock Ellis; Gallia Rediviva, Adolphe Cohn (Jan. Atlantic Monthly); The World's Debt to Astronomy, Simon Newcomb (Dec. Chautauquan); The World's Debt to Chemistry, H. B. Cornwall (Jan. Chautauquan); Mental Characterists of the Japanese, George Trumbull Ladd (Jan. Scribner's); Heredity, Part III., St. George Mivart (Jan. Humanita rian); Recent Science, Prince Krapotkin etc., which are important for psychology. (Dec. Nineteenth Century). Nature has reprinted (Dec. 13 and 20) in full the interesting address on Endowment for Scientific Research and Publication given by Mr. Addison Brown before the Scientific Alliance of New York, and published in the Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1892. Mr. Kumagusu Minakata has written, in view of the claims of priority recently made by two English writers, a letter to Nature (December 27), calling attention to the use. of 'finger-prints' as a means of signing documents and identification in the laws and usage of China and Japan as early as 650 A. D. The Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau is publishing in its current numbers an account of the sixty-sixth Versammlung der Gesellschaft deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte, held last year in Vienna. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS. AN Année Psychologique, edited by Professor Alfred Binet, will be issued in March. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co., announce for early publication A Rural Science Series, edited by Professor L. H. Bailey, of Cornell University. Some notes on the Leguminosa of Siam: GLENN Briefer Articles; Editorial; Current Litera- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, JAN. Hermann von Helmholtz and the New Psychology: C. STUMPF. The Theory of Emotion (II.); The Significance of Emotions: JOHN DEWEY. Following the publication of H. M.Ward's The Muscular Sense and its Localization in the A Location Reaction Apparatus: G. W. FITZ. There will be issued this month as a supplement to The Psychological Review a Bibliography of Psychological Literature for 1894, compiled by Dr. Livingston Farrand, of Columbia College, and Mr. Howard C. Warren, of Princeton College. The bibliography will include so far as possible all books, monographs and articles in Psychology, and those publications in philosophy, biology, anthropology, neurology ENER. THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE, JAN. Modern Theories as to Electricity: HENRY A. The Drainage System of the Valley of Mexico: Practical Hints for City Officials: E. C. GARD- Plumbing Trade Schools and Their Influence: Laboratory Training for Mining Engineers: January 9.-MR. TALCOTT WILLIAMS, Some R. H. RICHARDS. Operating Machine GEORGE RICHMOND. Morroccan Relations. Tools by Electricity: January 16.-DR. DANIEL G. BRINTON, The Beginnings of the Fine Arts. First Principles in Architecture: WM. HENRY January 23.-MR. HENRY G. BRYANT, GOODYEAR. SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. THE Linnæan Society of New York City, in coöperation with the American Museum of Natural History, has arranged for a series of illustrated lectures to be given in the large lecture hall of the museum, on Tuesdays at 8 P. M. The lectures are:FRANK M. CHAPMAN, assistant Curator in the American Museum of Natural History. A Trip through the Lesser Antilles. Physical and Natural History of the Islands, their Products and Inhabitants. January 8. HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN, Sc. D., Da Costa Professor of Biology, Columbia College. The Great West, a Half Million Years Ago. An account of our Continent when it was separated from South America and joined to Asia, and the Climate and Vegetation were Sub-tropical. February 5. WILLIAM LIBBEY, JR., Sc. D., Professor of Physical Geography and Director of the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archæology, Princeton College, New Jersey. Hawaii, the Paradise of the Pacific. March 12. FREDERICK W. PUTNAM, Professor of Amer ican Archæology and Ethnology in Harvard University, and Curator of Anthropology in the American Museum of Natural History. Ancient Earthworks in the Ohio Valley. April 2. UNIVERSITY ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. The University Archæological Association of Philadelphia offers a course of lectures to be given at 4 p. m., in the Library building of the University of Pennsylvania, as follows: : Notes on the Most Northern Eskimos. January 30.-DR. HARRISON ALLEN, The Human Skull; what is its Place in a Museum of Archæology? February 6.-CAPTAIN RICHARD S. COLLUM, STEWART CULIN, Secretary. THE ROCHESTER ADADEMY OF SCIENCE. February 11.-J. STANLEY-BROWN, The Pri- March 11.-CHARLES H. WARD, The Teeth of Man. March 25.-PROF. W. W. ROWLEE, The Evolution of Seeds. April 8.-CHARLES WRIGHT DODGE, Diphtheria and Anti-toxine. April 22.-ADELBERT CRONISE, The Panama May 13.-RICHARD M. MOORE, The Coleop- June 10.-H. L. FAIRCHILD, The Geology of THE NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. January 15. Meeting at American Museum of Natural History. R. L. DITMARS, Notes on a collecting trip through Connecticut. LEWIS H. JOUTEL, Secretary. NEW BOOKS. Radiant Suns. AGNES GIBERNE. New York, Macmillan & Co. 1894. Pp. vii+328. Race and Language. ANDRÉ LEFÈVRE. New York, D. Appleton & Co. 1894. Pp. vi÷ 424. Die Samoanische Schöpfungs-Sage und Anschliessendes aus der Sudsee. ADOLF BASTIAN. Berlin, Emil Feller. 1894. Pp. 50. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge Europas. PROF. ERNST HOFMANN. 2d Ed. C. Hoffmann. 1894. Pp. xl+24. M. 28. Model Engine Composition with Practical Instructions to Artificers and Amateurs. J. ALEXANDER. London, Whittaker & Co.; New York, Macmillan & Co. 1894. Pp. viii+324. $3.00. Ein geologische Querschnitt durch die Ost-Alpen. A. ROTHPLETZ. Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart. 1894. Pp. iv+268. M. 10. Geotektonische Probleme. A. ROTHPLETZ, 1894. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Hall, Boston. GINN & Co. 1894. Pp. 242. Introduction to Chemical Analysis for Beginners. FR. RUDORFF. Translated from the Sixth Edition by CHARLES B. GIBSON and F. MENZEL. Chicago, The W. T. Keener Co. 1894. $1.00. The Etiology of Osseous Deformities of the Head, Face, Jaws and Teeth. EUGENE S. TALBOT, 3d Ed. Chicago. The W. T. KEENER Co. Pp. xvi+487, $4. Feb.23,1895. SCIENCE. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: S. NEWCOMB, Mathematics; R. S. WOODWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, As- J. S. BILLINGS, Hygiene; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology; position and prospects of some branch of mathematics with which I may be familiar and a more general and discursive review of the present position and future prospects of our Society. I have, after some hesitation, chosen the latter subject. It seems desirable, on the whole, that there should be made at this time some permanent record, however slight, of the steps by which so large and flourishing a society has come together, and of the views concerning its present scope and the hopes concerning its future possibilities which are entertained by those who have hitherto been most immediately concerned in the conduct of its affairs. The New York Mathematical Society, originating in 1888, was at first not much more than a small mathematical club meeting periodically at Columbia College. The first meeting was called by a circular signed by three young men. The number of those who could be expected to attend these meetings was not great, but all who were able and who were sufficiently interested to do so were invited to join the Society. It was fortunate in securing for its first president Professor Van Amringe, distinguished alike by scientific attainments, official eminence, and administrative ability. The professor of astronomy at Columbia was also active in it from the first. The meetings of the young Society were, as I am informed (for at that time I did not reside in New York), |