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Vol. lvi August 4, 1922 No. 1440 



CONTENTS 



A Graduate School of Geography : Professor 

 W. M. Davis 121 



The Researches of Alfred Goldsborough 

 Mayor: Dn. Chas. B. Davenport 134 



A Scientifio Expedition to the Islands off the 

 West Coast of California 135 



Scientific Events : 



The Chemical Foundation; Lectures on 

 Science at Teachers College; Pittsburgh 

 Meeting of the American Chemical Asso- 

 ciation; The Southwestern Division of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science 137 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 140 



University and Educational Notes 143 



Discussion and Correspondence : 



Concerning the Botulinus Toxin: Dr. 

 Eaymond L. Steele. The Periodical Cica- 

 da: James Nelson Gowanlock. Some 

 Sidelights on the Life of Russian Pro- 

 fessors: Dr. M. I. WoLKOFF 143 



Scientific BooTcs: 



Walter's Genetics: Professor J. A. Det- 

 LEFSEN 145 



Special Articles: 



The Emergency Function of the Adrenal: 

 Professor Frank A. Hartman. Sealing 

 Qiiartz to Glass with Silver Chloride: Dr. 



E. 0. HULBERT 146 



The North Carolina Academy of Science: 

 Dr. Bert Cunningham 147 



A GRADUATE SCHOOL OF 

 GEOGRAPHYi 



A Castle in the Air 

 In spite of a wide-spread prejudice against 

 building castles in the air, I propose this after- 

 noon to consider a construction of that kind; 

 for if castles are not to be built in the air, 

 where in the world are they to be built; surely 

 not underground or in the water! All the 

 castles I have ever seen were built in the air; 

 their foundations were in the ground, of course, 

 but the castles themselves were in the air. My 

 proposal therefore needs no defense. 



In view of the good number of castles already 

 built, some of them very high in the air, even 

 on mountain tops, for occupation by the de- 

 fendants of various sciences, it is gratifying to 

 learn that plans are advancing for the erection 

 here in Worcester of a castle of the particular 

 kind in which my own interest is most excited, 

 a geographical castle. But it is on the other 

 hand regrettable to find that the proposal to 

 erect a castle, a stronghold, dedicated to geog- 

 raphy alone seems, even in intellectual circles, 

 to need explanation if not justification; so 

 little is the vast and varied content of geog- 

 raphy understood, so imperfectly is the great 

 opportunity for original research in geography 

 appreciated, so halting is the recognition of the 

 importance that the results of such research 

 will have in the conservation and consecration 

 of the wide spaces of the earth to the better 

 advantage of mankind. Let us try to rise to a 

 realization of the geographical opportunity be- 

 fore us. 



The Epoch of Geographical Description 

 We must remember that the geographical 

 epoch, in which the first discovery of the gen- 



1 An address at tfie annual commencement of 

 Clark University, Worcester, Mass., on June 12, 

 1922. 



