SCIENCE 



Friday, Apkil 18, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 The Function of Research in the Regulation 

 of Natural Monopolies: Dr. Edward B. 

 Rosa 579 



The Ninth International Congress of Zoology 

 at Monaco: Professor Wm. E. Kellicott 593 



The Tarr Memorial Window 595 



Scientific Notes and News 596 



University and Educational News 599 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



On Methods of Teaching Modern Lan- 

 guages: Professor Charles Hart Hand- 

 SCHIN. Academic Freedom: Dr. Henry 

 Leffmann, Professor J. E. Creighton . . 600 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Minchin on Protozoa: Professor Gary N. 

 Calkins. Davis's Food in Eealth and Dis- 

 ease : Professor W. H. Jordan. The Some 

 University Library: Professor T. D. A. 

 COCKERELL. Salstcd's On the Foundation 

 amd Teehnio of Arithmetic: Professor 

 FLOELiN Cajoei. Uuygens's Treatise on 

 Light: H. C 603 



Special Articles: — 



The Sistory of Lost River: Robert W. 

 Sayles. The Heredity of Color in Tumbler 

 Pigeons: Dr. Orren Lloyd- Jones. A New 

 Walnut: De. Newton B. Pierce 611 



Societies and Academies: — 

 The Anthropological Society of Washing- 

 ton: W. H. Babcock. Philosophical Society 

 of the Uni/versity of Virginia: Wm. A. 

 Kepnee 614 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 OQ-Hudson, N. Y. 



TBE FUNCTION OF RESEARCH IN THE 

 REGULATION OF NATURAL 

 MONOPOLIES ' 

 The social and political unrest of the 

 present day, which manifested itself stri- 

 kingly in the recent presidential campaig-n, 

 is of course due to more than one cause. 

 Senator Root, in a notable speech recently 

 delivered before the New York Chamber 

 of Commerce, attributed this unrest in 

 large measure to the mutual distrust and 

 mutual misunderstanding existing between 

 the leaders of the financial and industrial 

 world, on the one hand, and the great body 

 of the American people, on the other. To 

 a large audience of bankers, merchants and 

 captains of industry he said: 



There are hundreds of thousands of people out- 

 side our great industrial communities who think 

 you are a den of thieves. There are hundreds of 

 thousands of people who think the bankers and 

 manufacturers are no better than a set of confi- 

 dence men. 



We have before us now great and serious ques- 

 tions regarding the financial problems of the coun- 

 try, and this is what stands in the way of their 

 solution: It is that the men who understand the 

 finances of the country and the merchants engaged 

 in great operations are under suspicion; great 

 bodies of people will not accept what they say 

 about finance. They will not accept what the 

 experts say because they do not believe their 

 motives are honest. ... On the other hand, what 

 is your attitude toward the people? There are 

 many in this room to-night who down deep in 

 their hearts believe that great bodies of the Amer- 

 ican people really want to destroy their business 

 and confiscate their property. Now, neither of 

 these things is true; but one misunderstanding 

 leads to conduct which seems to justify another. 



' Retiring presidential address before the Philo- 

 sophical Society of Washingion. 



