544 KELATIONS BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND GERMANY. 



Membership in it is considered one of the highest honors that can be 

 attained by a scientific man. It is made by hiw the accredited 

 scientific adviser of the Government. Another of the more important 

 American academies is the Washington Academy of Sciences, which 

 acts as tlie federal head of a series of affiliated societies devoted to 

 anthropology, archaeology, general biology, botany, chemistry, ento- 

 mology, forestry, geograjDhy, geology, history, medicine, philosophy, 

 t,nd physical sciences. There should also be mentioned the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Edu- 

 cational Association. Besides these I will here mention the Stanford 

 University, at Palo Alto, Cal., as an institution of the first rank. It 

 was established in 1891, has an endowment valued at $40,000,000, and 

 has on its stalf of teachers some of the first scientific men in the 

 United States. Its president is the eminent ichthyologist, Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan. Finally, I must not omit one of the youngest of the 

 great establishments of this kind, the Carnegie Institution, estab- 

 lished in 1902 by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, with an endowment of 

 $10,000,000. It has for its special object the furtherance of original 

 scientific research. 



I was repeatedly able to personally satisfy myself upon the spot as 

 to the progress which is being made, esj^ecially in the biological sci- 

 ences and their application. I also had an opportunity, at the St. 

 Louis Exposition, of examining the educational sections in all their 

 ramifications. I find that over there they are equal to us in all essen- 

 tial respects — in the kind and method of scientific work, in the value 

 of the same, in the fitting up and equipment of laboratories, in the 

 materials for instruction, in the style and method of imparting 

 Jcnowledge. Visit the great workshop of Alexander Agassiz at Cam- 

 bridge; the anatomical laboratories of Huntington, in New York, at 

 Columbia I^niversity ; and of Mall at Baltimore ; the Peabody Museum 

 r.t Yale University in New Haven, so richly filled by Marsh ; the 

 Anthropological Museum at New York, and others, and you will say 

 {hat I am right. J. Orth recently published a similar opinion.* In a 

 few years the new buildings of the medical school of Harvard Uni- 

 versity will be ready, and what I saw of the plans at the St. Louis 

 Exposition leads me to think that in them we shall have the best yet 

 produced. 



I have sought to give a concise sketch of what the great American 

 Union has done for science up to the i)resent time and what it is in a 

 condition to offer us to-day. AVhat should we do to maintain and 

 increase the natural ties tliat now knit together the scientific interests 

 of that great country and our own? 



Orth, .J.: Vbev iirztliclie Schulen iind Anstalten in Nordamerika, Berliner 

 klin, Wochensehrift, 1905, No. 2. 



