SCIENCE 



Friday, October 18, 1912 



CONTENTS 



The State Museum and State Progress: De. 

 Heney Faiepield Osborn 493 



Address of President Taft at the Fifteenth 

 Intern^itional Congress on Hygiene and 

 Demography 504 



Twelfth Annual Intercollegiate Excursion of 

 New England 508 



The Study of Malaria 509 



The Eskimos of Coronation Gulf 510 



Retirement of Professor Henry Shaler 

 Williams 510 



Scientific Notes and News 511 



University and Educational News 513 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Gyrococcus fla-ccidifex and the " Flach- 

 erie" : William Beifp. A New Fly Trap: 

 Professor F. L. Washbuen 515 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Lunge's Technical Methods of Chemical 

 Analysis and Lunge's Manufacture of Sul- 

 phuric Acid and Alkali: J. L. H. Kiaig on 

 the Elements of Statistical Method: Pko- 

 PESSOR H. L. RiETz. Popular and Tech- 

 nical Books on Heredity: Dr. A. Franklin 

 Shull 517 



A Classification of the Departments of Bot- 

 any and an Arrangement of Material based 

 thereon: Professoe John W. Harshbeeger 521 



The New Catalogue of Chiroptera in the Brit- 

 ish Museum: De. Geeeit S. Miller 525 



Special Articles: — 



The Production of Sperm Iso-agglutinins 

 hy Ova: Peofbssor Frank E. Lillie. Pre- 

 liminary Note on Pristina and Naidium: 

 Horace Edwin Hayden, Jr. Concurrent 

 Infection hy Five Species of Intestinal 

 Worms: Professor William A. Rilet ... 527 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society: 

 James M. Bell 532 



MSS. Intended for publication and boots, etc., intended for 

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE STATE MUSEUM AND STATE 

 PBOGBESS 1 

 It has been the good fortune of the people of 

 this Commonwealth to have elected those men to 

 preside over its interests who were positively in- 

 strumental in promoting science and learning, and 

 who were especially active in promoting Agricul- 

 ture, and the branches allied thereto. Tour own 

 recommendations and influence, touching these 

 great interests, are highly appreciated by the 

 people, as is evident from their united movements 

 in establishing institutions which are designed to 

 bear directly upon those objects, and which are 

 specially designed to place them upon a scientific 

 basis. (Ebenezer Emmons to His Excellency 

 Hamilton Fish, Governor, Albany, December 25, 

 1851.)^ 



The citizens of New York and their 

 representatives in the legislature are those 

 especially addressed on this historic occa- 

 sion rather than the distinguished com- 

 pany of scientific men gathered here for 

 this celebration. While the present is a 

 critical period in the moral and economic 

 welfare of our people we predict that the 

 twentieth century, which is still in its 

 youth, is destined to reach its maturity 

 with a far more general distribution of 

 human happiness than the nineteenth. 

 The unequal distribution of the good 

 things of life is the underlying cause of 

 all present social agitation, and by the 

 good things of life we do not mean riches, 

 but family health, food, sunshine, pure air, 

 labor, the beauty of nature, the creative 

 works of man. A redistribution will come 

 about, not through politics which seems to 



'Address delivered on October 15, 1912, to the 

 citizens and legislature of New York State on the 

 occasion of the opening of the new State Museum 

 at Albany. 



^ ' ' Natural History of New York, Part V. Agri- 

 culture," 4to. New York, Boston, Albany, 1851. 



