SCIENCE 



Friday, December 3, 1909 



COSTEyTS 



The Diitii of the Agricultural College: Pkesi- 

 DENT H. J. Waters 777 



Physics Teaching in the Secondary Schools of 

 America: Pbofessob C. R. JIann 789 



The Eighth Zoological Congress 798 



The Depart mcnt of Agricultural Education of 

 the Uniicrsity of Wisconsin 799 



The George Washington ilemoriul Building . 800 



Scientific Notes and News 801 



University and Educational News 803 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Effects of Rapid and Prolonged Deep 

 Breathing: Db. D. F. Comstock. Espe- 

 ranto: Pbofessor J. Bishop Tingle .... 804 



Scientific Boolcs: — 



Von Bansemann's Descendenz und Pathol- 

 ogy: Pbofessob Gaby N. Calkins. Eigen- 

 mann's Cave Vertebrates of America: Pbo- 

 fessob James Rollin Sloxakeb. Gager's 

 Effects of the Rays of Radium on Plants: 

 Pbofessob Raymond H. Pond 805 



Botanical Notes: — 



The Ear-rots of Indian Corn; More Darwin 

 Literature; A New Botanical History: Pbo- 

 fessob Chaeles E. Bessey 811 



An Industrial Commission: Pbofessob R. J. 

 H. DeLoach 812 



Special Articles: — 



Resting Spores of the Potato Fungus: Pbo- 

 fessob L. R. Jones. Collection of the 

 JEcial Stage of Calyptospora columnaris 

 (Alb. and Schw.) Kiihn: W. P. Fb.vseb. 

 The S)nooth Hound and some other Fishes 

 in New Jersey: Henby W. Fowleb 813 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Academy of Sciences — .Sfec- 

 tion of Biology: L. Hussakof. The An- 

 thropological Society of Washington: John 

 R. Swanton. The Washington Chemical 

 Society : 3. A. LeClebc 815 



JL^S. iDtcnded for publication and books, etc., Intended for 

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

 HudsoD, Jf, Y. 



THE DOTY OF THE AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE ' 



A QUARTER of a centurj'^ ago the sort of 

 education for which the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College stands was in its experi- 

 mental stage. Its right to a place among 

 the well-directed efforts of our people was 

 seriously questioned. 



That in this brief period these agricul- 

 tural and mechanical colleges should com- 

 pletely break down opposition, allay preju- 

 dice and come into a commanding position, 

 was beyond the hope of even their most 

 ardent advocates. 



' ' The influences which were set in motion 

 by the passage of the Morrill Act have 

 already developed a new education."" 

 President Schurman, of Cornell Univer- 

 sitj'', recently characterized the founding 

 of the land-grant colleges of America, 

 through which universal industrial educa- 

 tion was made possible, as the third and 

 perhaps the greatest epoch in the educa- 

 tional history of the world. 



The impress of these institutions upon 

 the systems of education has been no less 

 important than that upon the industries 

 themselves. From the very beginning the 

 instruction in the mechanic arts and engi- 

 neering was successful, and the men en- 

 gaged in these industries were quickly 

 brought to a realization of this fact and 

 accepted in full confidence the college-made 

 engineer. 



' Inaugural address of Professor H. J. Waters, 

 on the ocpasion of liis formal installation as 

 president of the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, Manhattan, Kansas, Xovember 11, 1009. 



' President W. E. Stone, serai-centennial cele- 

 bration of Michigan Agricultural College. 



