SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTES TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHINQ THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, April 2, 1909 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Physical Eccercise from the Standpoint of 

 Physiology: Peofessoe Feedeeic S. Lee .. 521 



Departmental Organization for the Regula- 

 tion of Physical Instruction in Schools and 

 Collages from, the Standpoint of Hygiene: 

 Peofessoe Thomas A. Stoeet 527 



The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching: Peofessoe J. McKeen 

 Cattell 532 



Recent Steps in the Conservation Movement : 

 De. W J McGee 539 



Science iy Caile 540 



Scientific Notes and News 540 



University and Educational News 543 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



American Chemical History and Biog- 

 raphy : De. AlFEED TUCKEBMAN. NotCS 



on Fishes at Corson's Inlet, N. J.: Heney 

 W. FowuEE 543 



Scientific Books: — 

 Button's Mechanical Engineering: Peo- 

 fessoe E. C. Caepentee. Kolie's Intro- 

 duction to Electricity: Peofessoe S. J. 

 Baenett. Friedenthal's Experimental Phys- 

 iology: Peofessoe Lafayette B. Mendel. 

 Titchener's Elementary Psychology of Feel- 

 ing and Attention: Peofessoe W. B. Piiis- 

 BrrEY. Chapman's Camps and Cruises of an 

 Ornithologist : Wiueed H. Osgood 544 



Botanical Notes: — 



Oanong's Plant Physiology ; Economic Bot- 

 any; Papers on Fungi: Peofessoe Chasles 

 E. Bessey 550 



Special Articles: — 



The Otter in Eastern Massachusetts : De. 

 WlLUAM Beewstee 551 



Societies and Academies: — 

 The Geological Society of Washington: 

 Phujp S. Smith. The Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Washington: R. L. Faeis. The 

 Society for Experimental Biology and Medi- 

 cine: De. Eugene L. Opie. The American 

 Chemical Society : C. M. Joyce. The Amer- 

 ican Mathematical Society: Peofessoe F. 

 N. Cole 555 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 PHYSICAL EXERCISE FROM THE STAND- 

 POINT OF PHTSIOLOQT^ 



Mtthologists tell us that ^seiilapms, 

 the god of healing, was slain by a thunder- 

 bolt from Zeus because of complaints 

 which had reached that deity that -^scu- 

 lapius had become so skilful in his art that 

 Hades was fast being depopulated. His 

 tragic end, however, did not deter his cour- 

 ageous daughter, the goddess of health, 

 from carrying on a vigorous propaganda; 

 and, whatever the immediate result of her 

 efforts, I am quite sure that her followers, 

 the hygienists of the present day, are even 

 more successful than are the doctors in 

 delaying the day of our entrance into a 

 future life. It has been many centuries 

 since offerings to Hygeia were laid on her 

 altars on the Grecian hills, but the aim of 

 her cult has not changed. This aim, as I 

 conceive it, is to bring to, and maintain at, 

 its highest efficiency the organic machine. 

 An unhealthy body is a pathological body, 

 and any method is a legitimate hygienic 

 method which tends to keep the body in a 

 physiological status. Hygiene has been 

 well called applied physiology. 



"What are the criteria of efSciency in a 

 living body? One criterion is that the 

 body's chemical processes shall proceed 



^ An address delivered in a symposium on " The 

 Regulation of Physical Instruction in Schools and 

 Colleges, from the Standpoint of Hygiene" before 

 Section K (Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine) of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, Baltimore, December 29, 

 1908. 



