Friday, April 25, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 The Scope and Method of State Natural 

 History Surveys: Professor F. C. New- 

 combe 615 



Secent Legislation affecting Educational In- 

 stitutions in Kansas: Dr. Charles A, 

 Shull 622 



Scientific Notes and Neics 624 



University and Educational Neirs . . . .■ 627 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Conventional Position of Monoclinic Crys- 

 tals, a Question in Crystallographic Usage: 

 PKorEssoR A. C. Gill, 628 



Quotations : — 



Universities and Intellect 629 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Clarice and Buedemann on the Eurypterida 

 of New York: Dr. C. R. Eastman. Munro's 

 Paleolithic Man and Terramara Settle- 

 ments in Europe: "W". D. Wallis. Balls on 

 the Cotton Plant in Egypt: T. H. K. 

 BlancTcenhorn's Naturivissenschaftliche Stu- 

 dien am Toten Meer und im Jordantal: Dr. 

 Ellsworth Huntington 631 



Special Articles: — 



The Perfect Stage of Cylindosporium on 

 Prunus avium: B. B. Higgins. On the His- 

 tory of Cottons and Cotton Weevils: Dr. 

 Charles H. T. Townsend 637 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America: Dr. Philip Eox 639 



MSS. intended for publication and hooks, oto., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. ilcKeen Cattell, Garrisou- 

 on-Hudsou, N. Y. 



THE AMEBIC AN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



THE SCOPE AND METHOD OF STATE 



NATUBAL HISTORY SUBFEYS' 



It is a matter of common knowledge that 

 before the middle of the last century many 

 of the states of the union had established 

 state surveys, and the national government 

 was exploring the great west, fixing bound- 

 aries, locating routes and trails, and map- 

 ping the physical features in those vast 

 areas. In both state and national surveys, 

 geology received a large share of attention, 

 but physiography, zoology and botany 

 were not neglected. Many of the states, 

 after making a recognizance of the geolog- 

 ical features, identified and listed their 

 plants and animals, as did the states of 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 

 New Jersey, Ohio and Indiana. A condi- 

 tion to be noted in the establishment of a 

 number of these early state surveys is 

 that they were organized for the purpose 

 of exploring and studying all of the nat- 

 ural resources of the commonwealth, scien- 

 tific as well as economic. The survey of 

 Michigan was established at the admission 

 of the state to the union in 1837 as geolog- 

 ical, zoological, botanical and topographic. 

 The i^revailing idea in these early surveys 

 in the various states seems to have been 

 what we may designate by the word recog- 

 nizance, including geology, physiography, 

 botany and zoology. 



As the century continued through its 

 third and entered its fourth quarter, the 

 main attention of the state surveys became 



' Address of the vice-president and eliairnian of 

 Section G, American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, Cleveland, December 31, 1912. 



