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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1409. 



I have mentioned one situation for the de- 

 velopment of curiosity. I hope that next 

 year someone else will give us a better situa- 

 tion for its development, and some other men 

 wiU give us chemical situations for the de- 

 velopment of some other original tendencies. 

 When we get all these situations worked out 

 from a chemical standpoint we can tell what 

 situation to put up to get a certain response 

 from a given original tendency just as the 

 chemist knows that he will get a certain re- 

 action from a given element when he subjects 

 it to a certain situation or condition. 



When we aU have gone back to the student 

 and begun to develop the teaching of chemis- 

 try on original tendencies, the teaching of 

 chemistry will become a science, and nothing 

 will hasten that day more than meeting to- 

 gether in an open forum as we have done 

 this week. It is a pity that the teaching of 

 chemistry is not recognized fully as a profes- 

 sion, but no one is at fault but ourselves. 

 Let us become worthy of the profession by 

 studying the teaching of chemistry in a sci- 

 entific way, and then people will not hesi- 

 tate to give the calling of teaching chemis- 

 try a proper place and the college professor a 

 living wage. 



Neil E. Gordon 

 Unitersity or Maryland, 

 College Park, Md. 



TMs minute we instruct tlie secretary to spread 

 on the records of the association, to have published 

 in Science, and to conmumicate it to Mrs. Grimes 

 and to the faculty of the College of William and 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



EARL JEROME GRIMES 



The executive committee of the Associa- 

 tion of Virginia Biologists has adopted the 

 following minute: 



The executive committee of the Association of 

 Virginia Biologists has heard with deep regret of 

 the death of Earl Jerome Grimes, associate profes- 

 sor of biology in the College of William and Mary. 

 Less than a month ago he was present in our fall 

 meeting and contributed largely to its success. By 

 his death the College of William and Mary has been 

 deprived of a faithful and inspiring teacher; this 

 association of a valued member and counselor; and 

 the science of botany of a young disciple of great 

 promise. To his family and to his college we wish 

 to express our most heartfelt sympathy in their 

 great loss. 



ELECTRIC POWER MAPS 



A MAP of ISTew York State showing the lo- 

 cation of the power stations and electrical 

 transmission lines used by public utility com- 

 panies has been published by the United 

 States Geological Survey, Department of the 

 Interior. It was originally planned to pub- 

 lish these maps as plates in water-supply pa- 

 pers, which were also to contain tabular in- 

 formation in regard to the equipment of the 

 power stations and the chief characteristics 

 of the transmission lines, but to avoid the 

 expense and delay incident to the publication 

 of such reports the maps will be issued sep- 

 arately and sold. The map of 'New York 

 State is the first one to be published and may 

 be bought for one dollar from the director of 

 the United States Geological Survey at Wash- 

 ington. The base map used is the Geological 

 Survey's map of the state, 64 inches long and 

 45 inches wide, scale 1:500,000. The map 

 shows the location of the stations and pri- 

 mary transmission lines and bears a num- 

 bered list of the power companies, the num- 

 bers corresponding to numbers assigned to the 

 stations on the map. Proof maps were first 

 made and sections of them were sent to the 

 companies for correction or revision. Similar 

 maps of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- 

 chusetts, Connecticut, Ehode Island, Maine, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and 

 Delaware are in course of preparation. 

 These maps will be valuable to those who are 

 studying interconnection of power companies 

 and to those who wish to establish manufac- 

 turing plants within reach of electric power — 

 in fact, they will be useful to any one con- 

 templating the use of power in any way. 



MEDALS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



At the anniversary meeting of the Eoyal 

 Society on November 30, Professor Sherring- 

 ton presented the medals (we quote from 

 Nature) as follows: The Copley medal to 



