SCIENCE 



Friday, Octobee 22, 1909 

 contents 



A Career in Medicine and Present-day 

 Preparation for it : Professor Hknry A. 

 Christian 537 



Suggestions for the Construction of Chemical 

 Laboratories: Professor Augustus H. 

 Gill 548 



The Principles of the Calculus as applied in 

 the Technical Courses offered at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois: Db. Ernest W. Ponzer. 552 



Scientific Notes and News 557 



University and Educational News 560 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Need of Internation-al Congresses : J. D. 

 Hailman. Theory and Hypothesis in Geol- 

 ogy: Fred H. Lahee. The Behavior of a 

 Snake: C. H. Turner 500 



Quotations : — 

 Incorporated Benefactors 564 



Scientific Books: — 



Jones and Anderson on the Absorption 

 Spectra of Solutiojis: Professor Arthur 

 B. Lamb. Clements on The Genera of 

 Fungi: Professor Charles E. Bessey ... 565 



Scientific Journals and Articles 568 



Deleterious Ingredients of Food: Br. E. E. 

 Smith 569 



Special Articles: — 



A New Form of Light Filter for Use in 

 Examining Flame Colorations: H. E. Mer- 

 wiN. The Scombroid tishes: Dr. Edwin 

 Chapin Starks. Luminous Termite Hills: 

 Db. Frederick Knab. The Plant Remains 

 of Pompeii: Professor John W. Harsh- 

 berger. Notes on a Nematode in Wheat : 

 Edw. C. Johnson 571 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson. N. Y. 



A CAREER IN MEDICINE AND PRESENT- 

 DAY PREPARATION FOR IT'^ 



Mr. President, Members of the Govern- 

 ing Boards and of the Faculty of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, Students iit 

 the University and Guests: It is my privi- 

 lege to come at the invitation of this tini- 

 versity to share in the inauguration of a 

 new department in the university. To-day 

 you are commencing a work which means 

 much for the progress of medicine in this 

 fair land of oura, and to be permitted to 

 share in these exercises is a privilege and 

 an honor which I esteem highly. 



I come, too, bearing to you the greetings 

 and good wishes of the faculty of medicine 

 of Harvard University, who welcome you 

 into the fellowship of university medical 

 schools. This band of university medical 

 schools is as yet but a small one. However, 

 in the last decade and a half a slowly in- 

 creasing number of medical schools have 

 developed as integral parts of universities, 

 constituting genuine university medical 

 schools. Unfortunately this number is 

 even smaller than is at first apparent, for 

 in some instances the union between med- 

 ical department and university is merely 

 nominal. Small, however, as is this group, 

 it has already exerted a powerful influence 

 on medical education and has been one of 

 the forces at work changing medical in- 

 struction and medical schools to keep pace 

 with recent wonderful developments in 

 medical science, and it will play a yet 

 larger part in the medical uplift of the 

 future. To strengthen this group with a 



• Address at the dedication of the department 

 of medicine in Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 September 8, 1909. 



