SCIENCE 



Friday, October 29, 1909 



The Relations of Colleges to Secondary Schools 

 in Respect to Physics: Pbofessor Kdwin H. 

 Hall 577 



The International Congress of Radiology and 

 Electricity: Peofessor G. F. Hull 586 



Winter Meeting of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety : Pbofessob Chables L. Pabsons. . . . 587 



The 'National Conference Committee on Stand- 

 ards of Colleges and Secondary Schools: 

 Feedebick C. Febby 590 



The New England Geological Excursion: De. 



ROBEET M. BSOWN 591 



Wisco7isin Geological and Natural History 

 Survey 592 



Scientific Notes and News 593 



University and Educational News 596 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Recommendatiotis regarding the Treatment 

 of Genera mithout Species : Dr. J. A. Allen. 

 Stable Nomenclature practically unattain- 

 able: Dr. a. S. Hitchcock. The Magnetic 

 Storm of September 25: J. E. Bubbank 596 



Scientific Books: — 



Some Recent Books on Chemistry: Pbo- 

 fessob E. Rexouf. Terworn's Allgemeine 

 Physiologic: Pbofessor Fbedebic S. Lee. 

 The Opisthobranchiate Mollusca of the Bran- 

 ner-Agassiz Expedition to Brazil: Pbofes- 

 sor W. H. Dall 599 



Summaries of Four Opinions by the Inter- 

 national Commission on Zoological Nomen- 

 clature : Dr. C. W. Stiles 603 



Special Articles: — 



Carbon Dioxide as a Factor in Heart Beat: 

 Dr. Hugh ilcGuioAN, R. H. Nicholl. The 

 In/Juence of Cliemicals in stimulating 

 the Ripening of Fruits: A. E. Vinson. 

 Notes on the Parasitism of Cytodites Nudus 

 and Haemaphysalis Chordeilis: Dr. Philip 

 B. Hadley 603 



The Winnipeg Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science: — 

 Section H — Anthropology: De. Geoege 

 Geant :MacCuedy 607 



M.SS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

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

 Uudson, N. Y. 



THE RELATIONS OF COLLEGES TO SEC- 

 ONDARY SCHOOLS IN RESPECT 

 TO PHYSICS 



The interesting meeting of physicists 

 which was held at Worcester from the 

 seventh to the tenth of September, as a 

 part of the twentieth-year celebration of 

 Clark University, was almost imique in the 

 amount of attention secured, from a body 

 consisting mainly of university or college 

 teachers, for questions relating to the best 

 methods of teaching physics and the proper 

 relations of school physics to college phys- 

 ics. The credit for this, as for the many 

 other successful features of the meeting, 

 was largely due to Professor Webster, who 

 arranged for a number of conferences to 

 consider such questions as the following, 

 proposed by himself, and took a leading 

 part in the resulting discussions: 



1. What can be done to give the public a greater 

 knowledge of physics? 



2. What is the object of teaching physics in 

 school and college? 



3. How shall we increase the popularity of 

 physics in the schools? 



4. Shall physics be taught as if all students 

 were to be potential physicists? 



5. Shall physics be taught with more mathe- 

 matics or less ? 



6. Is it desirable that physics and mathematics 

 be taught by the same teachers in the schools? 



7. What proportion of time must be devoted to 

 dynamics? 



8. Is a course of descriptive physics alone with- 

 out mathematics or laboratory work desirable? 



9. Is it desirable that the college prescribe a 

 course in physics? 



10. Can the colleges be got to prescribe a course 

 in physics for all students? 



11. What is the proper function of general 

 physics in the curriculum of the college of liberal 

 arts? 



