SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, October 16, 1908 

 contents 



Democracy and Scholarship: Peofessoe 

 Datid Kinlet 497 



Professor Whitman and the Marine Biolog- 

 ical Laboratory 509 



Scientific Notes and News 510 



University and Educational News 515 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 An Unusual Meteoric Fall: De. Elihu 

 Thomson. Dr. W. J. Holland on the 

 Skull of Diplodocus: Db. Oijvee P. Hay. 

 The Spreading of Mendelian Characters: 

 0. F. Cook 516 



Scientific Books: — 



Dahlgren's Principles of Animal Histology: 

 Peofessoe E. G. Conklin. Anthropolog- 

 ical Publications of the American Museum 

 of Natural History : Robeet H. Lowie . . . 520 



Botanical Notes: — 



Papers on Archegoniates ; Miscellaneous 

 Botanical Papers ; Recent Papers on Fungi: 

 Peofessoe Chaeles E. Bessey 524 



Geology and Radioactive Substances: Da. 

 Abthtje L. Day 526 



Special Articles: — 



Preglacial Drainage in Central Western 

 New York: Peofessoe A. W. Gbabau. A 

 Small Collection of Shells from Texas: 

 De. Fbank Collins Bakee 527 



Societies and Academies: — 



The ." merican Mathematical Society: Peo- 

 fessoe F. N. Cole 536 



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

 review stiould be sent to ttic Editor of ScIl:^"CE, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, y. Y. 



DEMOCRACY AND SCHOLARSHIP 



The most noteworthy fact in nineteenth 

 century history is the onward sweep of 

 democracy. It has shown itself not only 

 in the formal establishment of republican 

 forms of government, but in the virtual 

 establishment of the power of the people in 

 countries where aristocratic and monarchic 

 forms of government have been main- 

 tained. Broadly speaking, democracy has 

 established itself in many directions, if not 

 in the complete absorption of political 

 power, in monarchic England and in im- 

 perial Germany, as truly as in the repub- 

 lican United States of America. It has 

 made its way sometimes by violence, as in 

 the revolutions which in the middle part 

 of the last century agitated various coun- 

 tries of Europe; but, generally speaking, 

 its greatest progress has been by agitation, 

 education and constitutional methods. 

 Nor is the movement stopped. It is rather 

 going on with increased momentum. The 

 world is destined to see more democracy 

 among a larger number of people and over 

 still wider areas and in more countries than 

 is the case now. The masses are demand- 

 ing a wider recognition, through a more 

 extended suffrage, in Germany, in Por- 

 tugal, in Austria-Hungary, in Russia, in 

 Persia and in India. Indeed, they have 

 already won it in Austria-Hungary, and it 

 is unlikely that the worn-out machinery of 

 the old Russian government can stand 

 much longer in their way. 



Democracy has not won its way, how- 

 ever, without arousing a good deal of crit- 

 icism and many somewhat doleful prognos- 



