Friday, April 11, 1913 



CONTENTS 



Genetics and Breeding: Professor Eaymond 

 Pearl 539 



The Metamorphosis of the Carnegie Founda- 

 tion : Professor Arthur O. Lovejot .... 546 



George Sarold Drew: Professor Alfred G. 

 Mayer 552 



Fur Seal Legislation: President David 

 Starr Jordan, George Archibald Clark 553 



The Eugenics Record Office 553 



The National Academy of Sciences 554 



Scientific Notes and News 555 



University and Educational News 558 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Electromagnetic Induction and Selativity: 

 Dr. S. J. Barnett. A Labeling Surface 

 for Laboratory Glassware: Dr. A. P. 

 Blakeslee. Most is — What? Professor 

 P. W. Martin 560 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Northrup on Methods of Measuring Elec- 

 trical Besistance: Dr. Prank Wenner. 

 BabcocTc's Metabolic Water: Professor 

 Eaymond J. Pool. Carrington on Fresh 

 Air and how to use it: Dr. Henry Sewall 562 



Scientific Journals and Articles 565 



The Influence of Various Educational Institu- 

 tions upon the Development of Agricultural 

 Science: Professor K. W. Th.atcher .... 566 



Special Articles: — 



The Distribution of Occidental Spiders: 

 Dr. Frank E. Lutz 567 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section D : G. W. Bissell 568 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Belminthological Society of Washing- 

 ton: Maurice D. Hall. The Anthropolog- 

 ical Society of Washington: W. H. Bab- 

 cock. The Clemson College Science Club: 

 F. B. Sweeny 



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

 reriew sliould be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudaon, N. Y. 



GENETICS AND BREEDING ' 

 One of the primary purposes for which 

 the American Breeders' Association was 

 founded was to bring together on a com- 

 mon ground those who were approaching 

 the problem of the improvement of plants 

 and animals by breeding, on the one hand, 

 from the side of practical breeding, and, on 

 the other hand, from the side of the scienti- 

 fic study of heredity. One of these groups 

 stands as the representative of the art or 

 craft of breeding, and the other as the rep- 

 resentative of the science of genetics. That 

 each of these two bodies of men has some- 

 thing to learn from the other there is no 

 doubt. Even with the continued and pros- 

 perous existence of such an association as 

 this it is certain that actually there is far 

 from being anything like as extensive a 

 mutual interchange of knowledge and opin- 

 ion between science and practise in breed- 

 ing as would appear from every point of 

 view to be desirable. 



It will have been perceived by all who 

 have followed my remarks so far that they 

 have been commonplace to the point of 

 utter banality. They constitute a thor- 

 oughly bromidic introduction to a conven- 

 tional treatment of that time-stained and 

 battle-scarred old theme of compulsory ora- 

 tory, the relation of science and practise. 

 Every one can foresee, with a moment's re- 

 flection, just what ought to come next, and 

 next, and on to the end. At the outstart 

 should be set forth the great achievements 



^ Papers from the Biological Laboratory of the 

 Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, No. 44. 



Address of the retiring chairman of the Animal 

 Section of the American Breeders ' Association at 

 its Columbia, S. C, meeting in January, 1913. 



