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 30, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 The Geographical Distribution of the Student 

 Body at a Number of Universities and Col- 

 leges : Pbofessor Rudolf Tombo, Je 577 



The Dublin Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion: De. Leo Feank Guttman 585 



The Sixteenth International Congress of 

 Americanists: Peofessoe Feanz Boas ... 597- 



The Fourth International Fishery Congress . . 599 



Memorial Exercises in Honor of William F. 

 Vilas 601 



The Darwin Anniversary Meeting of the 

 American Association 602 



Scientific Notes and News 603 



University and Educational News 606 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Teaching of Mathematics to Engineers : 

 Peofessoe K. E. Guthe. Concerning the 

 Real Unicorn: Peofessoe Spencee Teotteb 607 



Scientific Books: — 



Penhallow on North American Gymno- 

 sperms: Professor Charles E. Besset. 

 Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers : Peofessoe G. A. Millee 609 



Notes on Entomology: De. Nathan Banks 611 



Special Articles: — 



On a Communication between the Air- 

 bladder and the Ear in Certain Spiny- 

 rayed Fishes: Edwin Chapin Staeks. A 

 New Soil Sampler: Peofessoe W. H. Stev- 

 enson. Note on the Crystal Form of 

 Benitoite: Peofessoe Austin F. Roqees 613 



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

 re"view sbould be sent to tbe Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 



THE STUDENT BODY AT A NUMBER 



OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 



The accompanying table explains the 

 geographical distribution of the student 

 body of thirteen American universities, six 

 New England colleges for men, five colleges 

 for women, two technological schools and 

 one Pennsylvania college for men, for the 

 academic year 1907-1908, the summer ses- 

 sion students being in every instance 

 omitted. Missouri, Bowdoin, Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, Purdue, 

 Wesleyan, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, 

 Smith, Vassar and Wellesley have been 

 added to the table. An effort has been 

 made to group the institutions, instead of 

 arranging them entirely in alphabetical 

 order as heretofore. 



Comparing the attendance by divisions 

 of the six eastern universities {Columbia, 

 Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, 

 Yale) with the corresponding figures for 

 the same universities in a similar table 

 published in Science (N. S., Vol. XXVI., 

 No. 656, July 26, 1907, pp. 97-104), we 

 note in the first place that there has been a 

 gain for these universities taken as a whole 

 in every division, the largest increase in 

 the actual number of students, leaving the 

 North Atlantic division — in which all of 

 these six universities are located— out of 

 consideration, having been recorded in the 

 North Central division, where there has 

 been an increase of 117 students, this being 

 exactly the same gain as was made last 

 year. Foreign countries come next, as they 

 did last year, with an increase of 92 



