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, April 16, 1909. 



CONTENTS 

 Post-graduute Study m Applied Chemistry: 

 DB. WnilAM McMURTEIE 601 



The Program of the International Commis- 

 sion of the Teaching of Mathematics: Pbo- 

 FESSOB L. C. Karpinski 605 



Lieutenant Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 606 



The Resignation of President Angell 607 



Scientific Notes and News 608 



University and Educational News 613 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



William Keith Brooks: De. Theo. B. Com- 

 STOCK 614 



Scientific Books: — 



Schneider's Histologisches Practicum der 

 Tiere: Professor Ulric Dahlgeen. Dof- 

 lein's Prohleme der Protistenkunde : Dk. 

 Lekoy D. Swingle. Searle's Experimental 

 Elasticity : Professor A. P. Cabman 616 



Special Articles: — 

 A New Gemts of Carnivores from the Mio- 

 cene of Western Nebraska: O. A. Peterson. 

 Notes on Mushroom Spores: David R. 

 StiMSTiNE. Tanks for Soil Investigation at 

 Cornell University: Pbofessor T. L. Lyon 620 



The Geological Society of America: Db. Ed- 

 mund Otis Hovet 623 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: 

 M. C. Marsh. The Torrey Botanical Club: 

 Percy Wilson 639 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Iludson, N. Y. 



POST-GRADUATE STUDY IN APPLIED 

 CHEMISTRY 



The subject assigned to me in this dis- 

 cussion seems to have been somewhat 

 mixed. I have been asked to discuss: 



1. To what extent is post-graduate 

 training recognized or desired by employ- 

 ers of chemists? 



2. What should be the attitude of tech- 

 nical interests toward post-graduate work? 



3. What should be the attitude of tech- 

 nical institutions toward post-graduate 

 study? 



It matters little how the subject of our 

 discussion is stated, it really becomes, 

 What shall be the training or education of 

 young men whose life work shall be the 

 applications of chemistry, or physics, or 

 both, in the industries? It is a question 

 which the experience of a century at least 

 has scarcely solved. The elements which 

 enter into the answer are too varied, the 

 results to be attained too manifold, the 

 conditions available too perplexing, the 

 personal equation too persistent. Shall 

 the training be confined to the storage of 

 the facts and laws of chemistry and phys- 

 ics in the minds and memories of the 

 young students, trusting to the exigencies 

 which may arise to find their application, 

 and that when the exigencies do arise the 

 facts and laws will be brought forth and 

 be wisely applied ? Or shall we first cause 

 storage of facts, principles and laws, and 

 afterwards offer training in the methods 

 whereby these shall be applied and em- 

 ployed in the solution of the problems 

 likely to arise in the industries and to de- 

 mand treatment with satisfactory results? 



