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SCIENCE 



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The substantial requirements for entrance, the 

 broad outlook of the elective system, the inten- 

 sive thoroughness of the graduate professional 

 school, the glorification of the spirit of re- 

 search, all these are exemplified in the Har- 

 vard of to-day. The Harvard of to-morrow 

 will lead in the differentiation of the work of 

 men, the separation of boys and boys' teachers 

 from men and men's teachers. It wiU not be 

 Harvard College as it was, nor interchange- 

 ably Harvard College and Harvard University 

 as it is to-day. It will be a university resting . 

 on a college foundation, a university worthy 

 of the eighty millions of free men who form 

 its constituency, a university fit to frame the 

 highest aspirations of the noblest youth of the 

 republic. 



David Starr Jordan 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES 

 It is ever a wonder to us in America that 

 German biologists can so easily start and 

 maintain a new periodical. No sooner does a 

 science become well defined and gain a number 

 of workers than the proper periodical is forth- 

 coming. These remarks are called forth by 

 the appearance of the Internationale Revue 

 der gesamten Hydrohiologie und Hydro- 

 graphie (Leipzig: Klinkhardt), of which the 

 first (double) number appeared in May. The 

 backing of the magazine is indicated by the 

 names on the cover. E. Woltereek (of Leip- 

 zig and Lunz) is the editor. B. Helland- 

 Hansen (Berlin), G. Karsten (Bonn), A. 

 Penck (Berlin), C. Wesenberg-Lund (Hil- 

 lerod), R. and F. Zschokke (Basel) are the 

 other members of the editorial staff. The 

 Prince of Monaco, Agassiz, Chun, Forel, V. 

 Hensen, E. Hertwig, Murray, Nansen, O. 

 Pettersson and Weismann have lent their 

 names to the undertaking. The first number 

 contains 307 octavo pages, of which the first 

 half contain original contributions; those of 

 Weismann, Murray, R. Hertwig and Issel 

 being essays written especially for the intro- 

 duction of the new journal. A paper by 

 Nathansohn begins a projected series on the 

 biology of the plankton; one by A. Pischel 

 deals with very successful intravitam staining 



of Cladocera; one by Elausener treats of the 

 annual cycle of the fauna of alpine lakes; 

 and one by Gotziner in the first part of a 

 monograph on Mitter Lake at Lunz, in the 

 Austrian Alps. The remainder of the num- 

 ber contains abstracts of reports, summaries of 

 results, critical reviews, notices from stations 

 and a list of recent literature. There are 

 eight plates and numerous text-figures. Cer- 

 tainly the periodical starts out vnth the 

 highest ideals and it will be a great stimulus 

 to hydrobiology. It deserves, as it will re- 

 ceive, the most active support of the numerous 

 American workers in this field. C. B. D. 



The Independent begins with its issue for 

 January Y, 1909, a series of articles on the 

 fourteen universities of this country, vsrritten 

 by Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, of the editorial 

 staff and previously professor of chemistry in 

 the University of Wyoming. Harvard is the 

 first institution discussed and the others to 

 follow in the order named at intervals of one 

 month are: Tale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, 

 Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, California, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, 

 Cornell and Columbia. 



BOTANICAL NOTES 



TREES AND FORESTRY 



The University of California has done well 

 in publishing Mr. N. D. Ingham's bulletin 

 (No. 196) on " Eucalyptus in California." In 

 88 pages the author by means of plain descrip- 

 tions and 70 excellent half-tones gives his 

 readers some very clear and usually very new 

 ideas as to these wonderfully interesting trees 

 as they grow in California. 



Major George P. Ahern's " Annual Eeport 

 of the Director of Forestry of the Philippine 

 Islands," for the year ending June 30, 1907, is 

 of interest to forestry students in this country 

 as showing the considerably different problems 

 which pertain to work in the islands. Two 

 maps help to give a clearer idea as to the 

 available forest tracts in Negros Occidental 

 and Mindoro. 



Two years ago EoUand Gardner, of the 

 timber-testing laboratory at Manila, pub- 

 lished a bulletin (No. 4) on the " Mechanical 



