SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 2, 1913 



CONTENTS 



The College President: President William 

 T. Foster 653 



The Imperial Bureau of Entomology: Dr. C. 

 Gordon Hewitt 659 



The Committee on the Pacific Coast Meeting 

 of the American Association: Professor 

 E. P. Lewis 660 



Minutes of the Council of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Scien-ce: 

 De. L. O. Howard 661 



The Anniversary Meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences 662 



Scientific Notes and News 663 



University and Educational News 666 



Discussion and Correspondence: — ■ 



A Method for maTcing Paraffin Bottles for 

 Hydrofluoric Acid: Professor Alban 

 Stewart. Notes on Cuban Fresh-ivater 

 Fishes : Barnum Bkown 666 



Scientific Books: — 

 Seawood's History of Geographical Dis- 

 covery: Professor Albert Perry Briq- 

 ham. Boux's EntwicTclungsmechanik : C. 

 M. C. Comstock's Handbook of Nature 

 Study: V. L. K. Jongma/n's Paleobotan- 

 isch Literatur: Dr. Edward W. Berry. 

 Winchell on the Aborigines of Minnesota: 

 Professor Alexander F. Chamberlain . . 668 



Special Articles: — 



The Nature of the Substances which cause 

 the Bioelectrical Potential Differences: Dr. 

 Jacques Loeb and R. Beutner. Meteor 

 Dust as a Measure of Geologic Time: Pro- 

 fessor Alfred C. Lane 672 



The Mihuaukee Meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. C. L. Parsons . . . 674 



Societies and Academies: — ■ 

 The American Philosophical Society 690 



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

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

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE COLLEGE PRESIDENCY 

 The only qualification I have for dis- 

 cussing the college presidency is the extraor- 

 dinary opportunity I have had for study- 

 ing colleges at first hand. During the past 

 three yeai-s I have visited one hundred and 

 five of the institutions listed in the reports 

 of the United States Commissioner of Edu- 

 cation as universities and colleges. These 

 one hundred and five institutions are in 

 twenty-nine states. 



The main object of my travels has been 

 to learn what I could about higher educa- 

 tion in the United States ; and, for various 

 reasons, I have learned much from the in- 

 side. I have been a guest of the household. 

 Trustees and faculty, students and citi- 

 zens, have appeared glad to find a member 

 of their profession, from afar, upon whom 

 they could unburden themselves with fair 

 assurance that the confidence would not be 

 violated. I trust that I can be sufSciently 

 concrete in discussing the college presi- 

 dency without proving myself an ungra- 

 cious guest. 



Of the one hundred and five colleges and 

 universities that I have visited I have be- 

 come sufficiently acquainted with possibly 

 fifty-one to form judgments concerning the 

 success of their presidents in meeting the 

 expectations of those whom they served. 

 In other words, I believe that, in fifty-one 

 cases, I have uncovered the sentiment of 

 teachers, students and graduates with re- 

 spect to their presidents. In the other 

 cases, I have not collected adequate evi- 

 dence for a valid generalization ; either the 

 testimony has been meager, or, though 

 abundant, it has not pointed unmistakably 

 in one direction. In these cases the presi- 



