SCIENCE 



Friday, June 6, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 Some Froilems of Medical Education : Dk. 

 Egbert LeFevke 847 



The Psychiatric Clinic and the Community : 

 Dr. Stewart Paton 856 



The Tenth International Veterinary Con- 

 gress: Dr. Adolph Eichhorn 858 



Scientific Notes and News 860 



University and Educational Neivs 863 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Types of Species in Botanical Taxonomy : 

 Walter T. Swingle. Mosquitoes Pollina- 

 ting Orchids : John Smith Dexter. . . . 864 



Scientific Boolcs: — • 



The New Realism and The World we live 

 in: PRorEssoR Arthur O. Lovejot. 

 Schroder's Entomologie : Dr. Nathan 

 Banks 867 



Trials and Tropism-s: Professor Harry 

 Beal Torrey 873 



An Aid to Stttdents : Dr. Edw. J. Nolan ... 8 "6 



Special Articles: — ■ 



The Survival of Bacteria at Temperatures 

 in the Vicinity of the Freezing Point of 

 Water: S. C. Keith, Jr. Eemophoric 

 Function of the Thoracic Duct in the Chick; 

 Adam M. Miller. The Sex of Maces in the 

 Mucors: Dr. A. F. Blakeslee. The Effect 

 of Molting on Bheota-xis in Isopods: W. C. 

 Allee. a Nevada Becord for the Canada 

 Otter: Professor Alexander G. Euthven, 

 Prederick M. Gaige 877 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Botanical Society of Washington: Dr. 

 G. L. Shear. The Anthropological Society 

 of Washington: Wm. H. Babcock 883 



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

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

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



SOME FJROBLEMS OF MEDICAL 

 EDUCATION '^ 



The education of medical students has 

 been a subject of perennial interest to both 

 teachers and practitioners for a long time, 

 and although great advances have been 

 made, there is still general dissatisfaction 

 with the results as shown by examination 

 tests and the ability of recent graduates to 

 meet the emergencies or even ordinary 

 duties of professional work. 



At the meetings of the council on med- 

 ical education of the American Medical 

 Association, the confederation of exam- 

 ining boards of the United States and our 

 own association, the faults in preliminary 

 education, in professional training, and the 

 needs of still greater clinical opportunities, 

 have been pointed out and are familiar to 

 you all. Out of all these discussions, two 

 general educational remedies have been 

 advocated. 



1. That one or two years of college work, 

 which shall include one year of chemistry, 

 physics and biology, be added to the pre- 

 liminary training. 



2. That a hospital or clinical year be 

 added, making the medical course, as meas- 

 ured by the standards of England and 

 Germany, six years. 



In. these two propositions certain ques- 

 tions arise which concern this association 

 especially. For us the questions are not 

 merely academic, but questions of admin- 

 istration, standards and pedagogics. 



The house of delegates of the American 

 Medical Association at its recent meeting 



' Presidential address, delivered before the As- 

 sociation of American Medical Colleges at Chicago, 

 February 26, 1913. 



