SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 14, 1909 



CONTENTS 

 Some Trends in Higher Education: Peofessoe 

 GuiDO H. Maex 759 



Scientific Notes and News 787 



University and Educational News 790 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Occurrence of the Killer Whale on the 

 New Jersey Coast: F. W. Tbue. The Ptar- 

 migan and the Sonnet: H. L. Seavek. 

 Johannsen's Determination of Rock-forming 

 Minerals: L. McI. Luqueek. Family Rec- 

 ords : C. B. Davenpoet 790 



Scientific Books: — 



Harm's Handbuch der Klimatologie : Peo- 

 fessoe R. DeC. Wabd. Schuyler's Reser- 

 voirs for Irrigation: F. W. Hanna 791 



Scientific Journals and Articles 792 



The Epidermis of a/ti Iguanodont Dinosaur: 



PKOFESSOB HeNEY FaIEPIELD OSBOE?f 793 



Botanical Notes: — 

 Short Notes : Peofessob Chables E. Bessey 795 



Special Articles: — 



A Fossil Gar-pike from Utah: Peofessoe 

 T. D. A. CocKEEEii. The Nucleation of a 

 Close Lecture Room: Lauea C. Beant . . . 796 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society: Peo- 

 fessoe F. N. Cole. The Utah Academy of 

 Sciences: A. O. Gabbett. The Anthro- 

 pological Society of Washington: John R. 

 Swanton. The New York Section of the 

 American Chemical Society: C. M. Joyce. 

 The Torrey Botanical Cluh : Peect Wilson 797 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



SOME TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION^ 

 The student of the higher educational 

 system can not help becoming impressed 

 by certain very pronounced phenomena. 

 These grow most obvious if the graphical 

 method is used for the expression of tabu- 

 lated data, and that method has therefore 

 been relied upon here to visualize the 

 movements under discussion. 



First among the phenomena, and bear- 

 ing all the others in its train, is the re- 

 markable growth and spread of interest 

 in higher education, and the consequent 

 tremendous increase in the number of 

 those pui'suing advanced studies and re- 

 ceiving higher training. 



Chart No. 1 deals with the conditions 

 in Germany as disclosed by a study of 

 educational statistics compiled from ofScial 

 sources.^ It is natural for las to look 

 to Grermany for significant educational 

 movements and well-kept statistics. An 

 examination of Curve B of the combined 

 ^ The charts which form the basis of this paper 

 are part of those which have been constructed by 

 the writer for his use in studying certain move- 

 ments bearing upon the problem of educational 

 efficiency. Effort has been made to have the data 

 as complete and accurate as the time at his dis- 

 posal for this work would permit, although it is 

 too much to hope that no minor errors or dis- 

 crepancies have been overlooked. 



For data furnished, other than those available 

 in official publications, he wishes to make especial 

 acknowledgment to Presidents Schurman, Van 

 Hise, Wheeler and Jordan and their respective 

 secretaries. 



" Lexis's " Public Education in the German Em- 

 pire " ; Ascherson's " Kalender der deutschen 

 Universitaten " and " Minerva." 



