SCIENCE 



Friday, No^'bmbee 15, 1912 

 contents 



The Need of Practical Cooperation of Edu- 

 cational and of Medical Departments in 

 Modern Universities-: Professor David 

 Spbnce Hill 647 



The Educational Work of a Great Museum: 

 Harlan I. Smith 659 



The Professional Work of Professor Morris 

 Loeh: Professor Charles Baskerville . 664 



The Geological Society of America 667 



Scientific Notes and News 668 



and Educational News 671 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Meaning of Driesch and the Meaning 

 of Vitalism: Professor Arthur O. Love- 

 jot. Winter Weather in Florida: A. J. 

 Mitchell 672 



Scientific Books: — 



The Life of Ellen H. Richards: Professor 

 H. P. Talbot. Gunther's Examination of 

 Prospects: Professor W. H. Emmons. 677 



Special Articles: — 



The Development of Ajnphiliiaii Larvce in 

 Sea-water: Professor Otto Glaser. The 

 Scales of Dermophis: Professor T. D. A. 

 CocKERELL. Mineral Content of Volcanic 

 Ashes from Kodiak: William H. Fry .... 678 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole. The Botanical Society 

 of Washington: Dr. W. W. Stockberger. 

 The American Philosophical Society 682 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



TSE NEED OF PE ACTIO AL COOPEBATION 



OF EDUCATIONAL AND OF MEDICAL 



DEPARTMENTS IN MODERN 



UNIVERSITIES 



The object of this paper is, first, to shovf 

 the present status of af&liation of schools 

 or departments engaged respectively in the 

 training of physicians and of teachers, and 

 secondly, to present a plea for a more gen- 

 eral and effective cooperation between 

 medical and educational departments 

 where the interchange is warranted by 

 technical training and material resources 

 in both departments. Herein we are con- 

 cerned particularly with the training of 

 teachers pursuing at least a four years' 

 course in a good college or university de- 

 partment of education and also, on the 

 medical side, with the supplementing of the 

 training of prospective physicians who in- 

 tend to participate in the work of the 

 schools. 



Our general topic suggests the whole 

 field of modern sanitation as it concerns 

 not only the teacher and the medical in- 

 spector, but also the engineer, economist, 

 etc., a field into which more than one of 

 our universities have entered. We shall 

 consider only hygiene and related topics 

 as mainly affecting the teacher, superin- 

 tendent, principal and the medical inspec- 

 tor, school nurse and assistants. 



The actual status of the affiliation be- 

 tween medical and pedagogical depart- 

 ments of universities in the United States 

 is revealed in the results of inquiry insti- 

 tuted by the writer in March, 1912. A cir- 

 cular of inquiry, including stamped return 

 envelope, sent through the Newcomb School 

 of Education, was mailed to the deans re- 



