THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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Columbia University; \Y. F. Hille- 

 brand, chemist in the U. S. Geological 

 Survey; Win. B. Clark, professor of 

 geology, the Johns Hopkins University; 

 Whitman Cross, geologist, U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey; E. G. Conklin, professor 

 of zoology, University of Pennsylvania, 

 professor-elect of biology, Princeton 

 University; Theobald Smith, professor 

 of comparative pathology, Harvard 

 .Medical School; Simon Flexner, di- 

 rector of the laboratories of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research. 

 At Philadelphia the program was 

 twice as long and even more diverse. 

 as the Philosophical Society includes 

 in its scope the historical and philo- 

 logical sciences. Of the forty-two 

 papers presented, it is possible to men- 

 tion only three or four. Professor C. 

 S. Minot, of Harvard University, dis- 

 cussed the differentiation of the proto- 

 plasm of the cell in its relation to 

 reproduction ; Professor H. S. Jennings, 

 of the Johns Hopkins University, de- 

 scribed experiments on inheritance 

 among the protozoa. Dr. C. B. Daven- 

 port, of the Cold Spring Harbor Labo- 

 ratory, considered the extent to which 

 Mendelian inheritance obtains; and 

 Professors E. T. Reichart and A. P. 

 Brown, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, showed that the crystals of oxy- 

 hemoglobin from the blood of different 

 genera differ, and that even species can 

 be recognized by the crystals. Dr. H. 

 F. Osborn, president of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, gave a 

 lecture on the results of the Museum's 

 explorations in the Fayfun desert of 

 northern Egypt, preceding a reception 

 in the hall of the Pennsylvania His- 

 torical Society, and there was a con- 

 cluding dinner with speeches by the 

 ( hinese minister and others. 



DEDICATION' OF THE NEW BUILD- 

 INGS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE 

 CITY OF NEW YORK 



The beautiful and well-planned 

 buildings of the College of the City 

 of New York were dedicated with cere- 



monies adequate to the event on the 

 fourteenth of May. As shown in the 

 accompanying sketch, drawn by Mr. 

 Richard Rummell, they form a group 

 of buildings such as has rarely if ever 

 before been dedicated at one time to 

 academic purposes. The situation on 

 St. Nicholas Heights equals that of 

 Columbia University, a mile to the 

 south, and is less likely to be marred 

 by the encroachments of shops and 

 apartment houses. An institution of 

 this character, which embodies in its 

 external impressiveness as well as in 

 its work and aims civic duty and pride, 

 represents the best ideals of modern 

 civilization. 



The College of the City of New York 

 is maintained by the people of the city 

 for the education of its young men, 

 and is in some respects unparalleled 

 in this country or elsewhere. Phila- 

 delphia and Baltimore have high 

 schools of nearly college rank, and 

 Cincinnati has a municipal university, 

 and these four institutions represent a 

 movement likely to become general 

 throughout the country. The College 

 of the City of New Y'ork, in view of 

 what it has already accomplished and 

 in view of the great population and 

 wealth of the city, seems destined to 

 take the lead in an educational ad- 

 vance likely to be as important for the 

 next generation as the evolution of the 

 state universities has been for the 

 present generation. 



LEWIS HENRY MORGAN 



Under the auspices of the National 

 Academy of Sciences there are pub- 

 lished biographical memoirs of its de- 

 ceased members. These documents are 

 of value for the history of science in 

 this country, but are not as widely 

 circulated or as well known as they 

 should be. Just published is a memoir 

 of Lewis Henry Morgan by Mr. \V. H. 

 Holmes, chief of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology, which from several 

 points of view is of special interest. 



Morgan, who was born in Aurora, 



