Friday, June 20, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 Livingstone as an Explorer: SiK Harry H. 

 Johnston 923 



Lecture and Secitation Metliods in University 

 In-striiction : Professor E. S. Moore 929 



The Kahn Foundation ; E. M, W 932 



The National Conference Committee : Pro- 

 fessor Frederick C. Ferry 933 



The Dana Centenary 935 



Scientific Notes and News 935 



University and Educational News 939 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Character of the Endosperm of Sugar 

 Corn: Dr. Henri Hus. The Telloiostone 

 Parle: Jesse L. Smith. The Metric Sys- 

 tem of Weights and Measures: Fred J. 

 Miller. The Teaching of English Com- 

 position : William Kent. University Life 

 in Idaho: Dr. J. M. Aldrich 940 



Scientific BooJcs: — 



Wilson and Lewis's The Space-time Mani- 

 fold of Melativity: Professor James 

 Byrnie Shaw. Salpeter's Higher Mathe- 

 matics for Scientists and Physicians: Dr. 

 R. Beutner. Hooker's Chloride of Lime in 

 Sanitation: Professor George C. Whipple. 

 Henry's The Plant AlJcaloids: E. K 943 



The Temperature assigned Tjy Langley to the 

 Moon: Dk. F. W. Very 949 



The Ore Deposits of the Western United 

 States: Dr. M. E. Wadsworth 957 



Societies and Academies: — 

 Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences: Charles 

 P. Berkey and Charles T. Kirk 958 



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

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

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



LIVINGSTONE AS AN EXPLOBEB^ 

 David Livingstone, it is scarcely neces- 

 sary to remind yon, was of Highland de- 

 scent, his grandfather having been a crofter 

 on the little island of Ulva, off the west 

 coast of the larger island, Mull. In ap- 

 pearance he showed clearly that the pre- 

 dominant strain in his ancestry was what 

 we call Iberian for want of a more definite 

 word. That is to say, that he was of that 

 very old racial strain still existing in west- 

 ern Scotland, western Ireland, Wales and 

 Cornwall, which has apparently some kin- 

 ship in origin with the peoples of the Medi- 

 terranean, and especially of Spain and 

 Portugal. Indeed, according to such de- 

 scriptions as we have of him, and .such por- 

 traits as illustrate his appeai'ance, he was 

 not luilike a Spaniard, especially in youth 

 and early middle age. His height scarcely 

 reached to 5 feet 7 inches, his hair and 

 moustache, until they were whitened with 

 premature old age, were black, his eyes 

 hazel, his complexion much tanned by the 

 African sun, but at all times inclining to 

 sallow. He possessed a natural dignity of 

 aspect, however, which never failed to make 

 the requisite impressions on Africans and 

 Europeans alike. Bubbling over with sly 

 humor, with world-wide sympathies, and 

 entirely free fi'om any narrowness of out- 

 look, he possessed a very strong measure of 

 self-respect, coupled with a quiet, intense 

 obstinacy of purpose. 



* From the address to commemorate the centen- 

 ary of the birth of Livingstone given before, the 

 Boyal Geographical Society, London, and the Eoyal 

 Scottish Geographical Society and printed in the 

 journals of these societies. 



