SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 23, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 The National Academy of Sciences: — 

 Opening Address: President Ira Eemsen . 769 



The Belatio7i of Science to Eigher Educa- 

 tion in America: President Arthur T. 

 Hadlet 775 



Speeches at the Anniversary Dinner by the 

 Bight Honorable James Bryce and Br. S. 

 Weir Mitchell 779 



Soientifio Notes and News 785 



University and Educational News 788 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Laws of Nomenclature in Paleontol- 

 ogy: Dr. W. D. Matthew. Eo^v is the 

 Word Food to be defined? Dr. Ralph G. 

 Benedict. A Standard Form of Committee 

 Meetings: Professor Edward C. Pickering 788 



Quotations: — 

 University Life in Kansas 796 



Scientific Books: — 

 Mere's Eistory of European Thought in the 

 Nineteenth Century: Professor E. M. Wen- 

 ley. Gray's Electrical Machine Design: 

 C. W. Green 796 



Meteorological Observations at the University 

 of California: William G. Reed 800 



Beview of Forest Service Investigations: 

 Barrington Moore 802 



Special Articles: — 



A Laboratory Method of Demonstrating 

 the Earth's Botation: Db. Arthur Hollt 

 COMPTON. Crossopterygiun Ancestry of the 

 Amphibia: Dr. Wm. K. Q-kegort 803 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: D. 



E. Lantz 808 



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

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

 on-Hudson. N. Y. 



OPENING ADDBESS^ 



We have come together especially to take 

 note of the fact that fifty year.s ago a num- 

 ber of prominent workers in the field of 

 science founded the National Academy of 

 Sciences, receiving a charter from the 

 United States government. It would be 

 interesting and instructive to call the roll 

 of the founders and learn who they were, 

 but it will suiifice to refer to some of the 

 most conspicuous among these or, perhaps 

 it would be better to say, some of those 

 whose names are most familiar to the pres- 

 ent generation. High up on this honor list 

 are Louis Agassiz, James D. Dana, Wolcott 

 Gibbs, B. A. Gould, Asa Gray, A. Guyot, 

 Joseph Henry, J. Leidy, J. P. Lesley, Ben- 

 jamin Peirce, R. E. Rogers, W. B. Rogers, 

 L. M. Rutherfurd, Benjamin Silliman, Jef- 

 fries Wyman and J. D. Whitney. Fifty 

 names are included in the act of incorpora- 

 tion. Among those are several members of 

 the United States Army and Navy, as for 

 example, J. G. Barnard, J. A. Dahlgren, 

 Charles H. Davis, John Rogers, J. G. Tot- 

 ten, and others holding positions in the 

 United States Military Academy and the 

 United States Naval Observatory. 



A careful scrutiny of the list of incor- 

 porators will show that they can be classi- 

 fied under three heads. The majority were 

 engaged in scientific researches and had 

 reached results of value. They were the 

 leaders among the scientific investigators of 

 that day. Then there were those who had 

 gained distinction by their services as engi- 

 neers either in the army or navy; and a 



^ Delivered by the ijresident at the anniversary 

 meeting of tlie National Academy of Sciences, 

 April 22, 1913. 



