SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, July 24, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 The Salaries of Professors at American Col- 

 leges and Vniversilies 97 



The Teaching of Mathematics to Engineering 

 Students in Foreign Countries: Pbofessok 



AlEXANDEK ZlWET 109 



Tlie British Bureau of Sleeping Sickness . . . 113 



Beauperthuy- on Mosquito-horn Diseases .... 114 



Scientific Notes and News 114 



University and Educational News 120 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Continuous Calorimeter: Pbofessob 



LiNDLEY PTLE 121 



Quotations : — 



Academic Control in Germany 122 



Scientific Books: — 



Vialleton's XJn proileme de I'evolution: 

 Pkofessoe Chaeles S. Minot. Spargo's 

 The Comm,on Sense of the Milk Question: 

 Db. Wm. Cbeighton Woodwaed 122 



Scientific Journals and Articles 124 



Special Articles: — 



Observations on Chamge of Sex in Garica 

 Papaya: M. J. Ioens. Observations on 

 Medicago Lupulina L. : G. T. Feench . . . 125 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Geological Society of Washington: Dr. 

 Kalph Arnold. The New York Section of 

 the American Chemical Society: Db. C. M. 

 Joyce 127 



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

 review sliould be sent to tbe Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y., or during the present summer to Wood's Hole, 



THE SALARIES OF PROFESSORS IN AMERI- 

 CAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES^ 



The Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching, in seeking to carry 

 out its primary object of establishing a re- 

 tiring allowance system in the colleges, 

 universities, and technical schools of the 

 United States, the Dominion of Canada, 

 and Newfoundland, has found it necessary 

 to conduct various enquiries into the con- 

 dition of education in these three coun- 

 tries. Among the first of these studies 

 was one which had to do with the salary 

 and tenure of office of the professor and 

 of other officers of instruction. The re- 

 sults of that study are given in the present 

 bulletin and are based upon data supplied 

 by some seven hundred and fifty institu- 

 tions in the United States and Canada, the 

 figures given in all cases being presented 

 exactly as they were received from the 

 officers of these institutions. 



The organization of colleges and univer- 

 sities in the United States is fashioned 

 very much after that of business corpora- 

 tions; the board of trustees corresponding 

 to the board of directors, the chairman of 

 the board to the chairman of the board of 

 directors, the president of the college to 

 the general manager. The president is the 

 connecting link between the administra- 

 tive body of trustees on the one side and 

 the teaching body on the other. 



^ From Bulletin number two of the Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. 

 This bulletin, entitled " The Financial Status of 

 the Professors in America and in Germany," eon- 

 tains much additional information and discussion. 



