SCIENCE 
Fripay, Aprin 12, 1912 
CONTENTS 
The Present Educational System and the 
Training of Economic Entomologists: Dr. 
10, Wily NOREEN gaccogduocconsce LR oereacord 557 
On the Improvement of Medical Teaching: 
PrRoFEssor C. M. JACKSON 566 
Scientific Notes and News 
University and Educational News .......... 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
Are Horns in. Sheep a Sex-limited Char- 
acter? PROFESSOR W. H. CastLe. The Moth 
of the Cotton Worm: Dr. LEONARD HASE- 
MAN. Crystallographic Tables: DR. OLIVER 
BowusEs. House Air: G. L. MANNING .... 574 
Quotations :— 
Most Recent Investigations on the Deter- 
mination, Preservatwe Action and Admissi- 
bility of the Use of Benzoic Acid: K. B. 
LEHMAN 577 
Scientific Books :— 
Steuer on Planktonkunde: PROFESSOR 
CHARLES ATwoop Koromw. Ward’s The 
Realm of Ends or Pluralism and Theism: 
PROFESSOR R. M. WENLEY 585 
Botanical Notes :— 
The Passing of the Slime Moulds; The 
Secret of the Blueberries; The Grama 
Grasses; Botanical Notes: PROFESSOR 
CHARLES (HE BESSEYg cis cinmicies oe elec cle 589 
The Relation of Pigmentation to Tempera- 
ture in Deep-sea Animals: CHas. E. Woop- 
RUFF 591 
Physiological Sex Determination: BENJI. C. 
GRUENBERG 593 
Societies and Academies :— 
The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 
FESSOR F. N. Conte. New York Section of 
the American Chemical Society: Dr. C. M. 
Joyce. The Section of Biology of the New 
York Academy of Sciences: DR. WILLIAM 
K. GREGORY 
MSS, intended for publication and books, etc., intonded for 
review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. 
THE PRESENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 
AND THE TRAINING OF ECONOMIC 
EN TOMOLOGISTS? 
Av the beginning, I wish to call your 
attention to the fact that this paper deals 
with a system and its relation to the prepa- 
ration of a class of men to meet certain 
insistent economic conditions brought 
about by a twentieth-century civilization. 
I do not wish to place the instructor in any 
other position than that of a more or less 
willing or unwilling agent of this system, 
or the university graduate in any other 
light than that of the inevitable result of 
the workings of that system. 
The world of to-day demands the carry- 
ing out of certain undertakings, the doing 
of certain difficult things, which, in turn, 
demands certain qualifications in the men 
who are to do them, and demands them 
as never before in the world’s history. 
These men must be taken as lads and 
so trained as to meet these imperative 
demands. Where can the American boy 
get this preparation that these existing 
conditions demand? Who has the abil- 
ity, willingness and the freedom to train 
him therefor? If I were the only one 
asking these questions, or were the sci- 
ence of entomology alone involved, there 
would be grounds for suspecting that there 
was something wrong with the entomolo- 
gists. But this is not the situation. 
Several years ago Mr. F'. W. Taylor, who 
is not only not a man with a grouch, but 
one of the foremost engineers in the coun- 
try, stated that he had long ago made up 
1Read before the Washington, D. C., meeting of 
the Entomological Society of America, December 
27, 1911. 
