SCIENCE 



Friday, July 2, 1920 THE FOUNDING OF THE WISCONSIN 



—CONTENTS ^ ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS 



„. ^ .. . , w ... . AND LETTERS 



The Founding of the Wisconsin Academy of 



Sciences, Arts and Letters: Professor The event we are met to commemorate 



Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1 was a quiet one in itself. It took place with- 

 out noise or pageantry. But none the less, 

 Scientific Events: — • ii, • j. n i. i i,- j. s ^x. ^ n 



in the intellectual history oi the people of 

 Aitoff's Equal-area Projection of the ,, . i^i ■, • , 



Sphere; Retirement of Civil Service Em- ^^^^ commonwealth, it was a Signal event. 



ployees; The Mayer Memorial Medal; Hon- The founding of the "Wisconsin Academy of 



orary Degrees at Yale University 8 Sciences, Arts and Letters, though quite 



without the paraphernalia of a great event. 

 Scientific Notes and News 10 ^gs yet a most distinctive Step in the pas- 



University and Educational News 13 '^^^ *™™ *^^ ^'■'* '^^' '"^ *^^ intellectual 



evolution of our people into this, the second 



Discussion and Correspondence: — stage. 



'Orthogenesis among Fishes: Dr. David The first stage, it is needless to say, was 



Starr Jordan. Einstein's Theory and that of pioneer development. It began with 



Shift of Spectrum Lines: Dr. Euzabeth ^^^ coming of our forefathers into this 



E. Laird. Anopheles Larvce in Salt Water: tiiti^ ,i/-. ,t-i t 



Dk. James Zetek 13 goo<ily land between the Great Lake and 



the Great River. The territory was then in 



Quotations: — its virgin state, tenanted by the wild life 



The Lister Institute 15 that had taken possession of it on the re- 

 treat of the Great lee Invasion. This first 



Scientific BooTcs:— s^-^ge ^^^ ^ ^QvioA of pioneer struggle and 



Pasteur the History of a Mind: ^^o^sso^ this Struggle almost necessarily delayed 



L. R. Jones 15 . . •' •' 



certam forms of scientific and cultural de- 



Notes on Meteorology:— velopment. This pioneer stage continued 



The Distribution of Maximum Floods; i^ot only until the virgin prairies, the wild 



JVoies; Dr. C. LeEot Meisinger 17 meadows, the park-like groves, and the 



trackless forests of "Wisconsin had been re- 

 Special Articles: — i j i, li- j. j j2 u c i_ -li 



placed by cultivated fields, comfortable 

 A Simple Method for Titrating Electro- i ti- i ^ i , , ., 

 metrically to a Desired End Point in Acid dwellings and prosperous townS, but until 

 Alkaline Beaetions: Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg. 18 ^^^ ^hese had been bound together by a net- 

 work of roadways and railways that united 

 The American Society of Mammalogists : Dr. the whole into an intercommunicating go- 

 Hartley H. T. Jackson 19 operative community ready to enter upon a 



common organized career in pursuit of its 



MSS. intended for 'publication and books, etc., intended for Viio'llpr intprPS+S 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-OQ- '^ 



Hudson, N. Y. , The sccond stage could really begin only 



