THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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gated Lake Titicaca. Mr. Agassiz has 

 done this entirely at his own expense. 

 The results have been published by him 

 through tne Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Harvard College, in thirty 

 volumes of memoirs and fifty-three 

 volumes of bulletins, mostly containing 

 the results of his own various expedi- 

 tions and of the work of the specialists 

 who examined his collections. Besides 

 the numerous publications through the 

 Harvard Museum, in 1888 Mr. Agassiz 

 published in two volumes the narrative 

 of his three cruises in the Gulf of 

 Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and along 

 the Atlantic Coast of the United States, 

 with charts and illustrations. 



Mr. Agassiz had been president of 

 the National Academy of Sciences, and 

 was a foreign member of the leading- 

 academies of the world. He was not 

 only the author of important contribu- 

 tions to science, but was also a great 

 man, possessed of complete courage and 

 frankness and a dominant will, which 

 gave him leadership throughout the 

 broad and rich experiences of his long 

 life. As he was happy in his birth and 

 in his life, it may be said that he was 

 not ill-starred in his death, for he died 

 with faculties undimmed, suddenly, on 

 the sea, which he loved so well and had 

 explored so persistently. 



CHARLES REID BARNES 

 The death of Dr. Charles Reid 

 Barnes, professor of plant physiology 

 at the University of Chicago, as the 

 result of a fall, is a serious loss to 

 botany. He was born at Madison, Ind., 

 in 1858 and was educated at Hanover 

 College and Harvard University. After 

 occupying successively the chairs of 

 natural history and of botany and geol- 

 ogy at Purdue University, he was called 

 to the chair of botany at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin in 1887, where he 

 remained until he took up his final 

 work at Chicago in 1898. During all 

 of these years he was associated with 

 Professor Coulter in the editorship 

 of the Botanical Gazette. Professor 

 Barnes had served as vice-president of 



the botanical section of the American 

 Association and as president of the 

 Botanical Society of America. Pro- 

 fessor Barnes's best known earlier pub- 

 lications dealt with the taxonomy of 

 mosses. Just before his death he com- 

 pleted the final proof-reading of the 

 physiological part of a general text- 

 book of botany that is expected soon to 

 appear from the Hull Botanical Labo- 

 ratory. Within the past few years 

 Professor Barnes had become greatly 

 interested in morphological problems 

 among the bryophytes, two papers hav- 

 ing been already published in conjunc- 

 tion with Dr. Land and several others 

 being partly ready. 



THE TROUBLES AT PRINCETON 

 The secret history of almost any 

 American university is not less com- 

 plicated than recent events at Prince- 

 ton, but it is certainly unusual for 

 such family quarrels to be so com- 

 pletely exploited before a public which 

 can scarcely be expected to understand 

 them. It is, however, probably not a 

 bad thing for a university to conduct 

 its affairs in the open and for large 

 numbers to become interested in them, 

 even though the principles involved 

 may not be so vital as they appear to 

 those immediately concerned. Probably 

 the circumstance of greatest general 

 interest at Princeton is the control 

 exercised by the alumni. This is a 

 factor likely to become increasingly 

 important in the history of our univer- 

 sities, and it is not without its dangers, 

 for the alumni bear gifts and are more 

 likely to be concerned with athletics 

 and fraternities than with scholarship. 

 The outlines of the Princeton story 

 are now common property. Dean West 

 has long urged with enthusiasm a 

 graduate college on the lines of the 

 Oxford colleges and President Wilson 

 approved the plan. Then came Presi- 

 dent Wilson's move against the clubs — 

 fraternities are forbidden at Princeton 

 — and in favor of more democratic 

 " quads," which divided the faculty and 

 trustees and awakened the opposition 



