SCIENCE 



Friday, Decembeb 6, 1912 



CONTENTS 



The Lane Medical Library of Stanford Uni- 

 versity: President David Stabr Jordan . 763 



Antrittsvorlesung : Pbopessoe Chaeles Sedg- 

 wick MiNOT 771 



The Meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science at Cleveland 

 in 1S53 776 



Scientific Notes and News 783 



University and Educational News 786 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Professor de Groot on American Sinology: 

 De. George A. Doksey. The Relation of 

 Plasma-grown Tissue to Senility: Pro- 

 fessor H. M. Benedict. 787 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Eisler's Die Muskeln des Stammes: Pro- 

 fessor C. E. Bardebn. Cathcart on the 

 Physiology of Protein Metabolism: Pro- 

 fessor E. v. McCoLLUM. The Voyage of 

 the "Scotia": Dr. W. H. Dall. Duff's 

 Text-book of Physics: Dr. Louis A. Par- 

 sons. Meyer's MasehinenundApparate der 

 Starkstromtechnilc : Carl J. Fechheimer . 790 



Botanical Notes: — 



Mycological Notes; Systematic Notes; The 

 Return of the Native Flora: Professor 

 Charles E. Bessey 795 



Paleolithic Modelers in Clay: Professor 

 G-EORGE Grant MacCurdy 796 



The Progress of Mount Rose Observatory: 

 Professor J. B. Church, Jr 796 



Special Articles: — 



The Cultivation of an Ectoparasitic Nema- 

 tode of a Guinea-pig on Bacteriologic 

 Media: Wade W. Oliver. Recently Pro- 

 posed Species of the Genus Diceratherium : 

 Dr. O. a. Peterson 800 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Academy of Science of St. Louis: Pro- 

 fessor George T. Moore 802 



ytSS. intMidwl for publioatioB and books, etc., intended tor 

 rerieTr should be lent to the Editor of SaBHCz, Garriaon-OB- 

 Hudson, N. T. 



THE LANE MEDICAL LIBRARY OF 

 STANFORD UNIVERSITY^ 



We have met to-day to mark a milestone 

 in tlie history of Stanford University, on 

 the one hand, and in the history of medical 

 education, on the other. It is a milestone 

 that we mark, not an epoch, for epoch-ma- 

 king events do not often appear more than 

 once in a lifetime. But a milestone marks 

 progress, even though after it is set up all 

 shall go on as before. 



Stanford University is now twenty-one 

 years old. Its days were opened on a hope- 

 ful morning of October in California where 

 all days are hopeful, just twenty-one years 

 ago. It has come of age. It is old enough 

 to be doing the work of a grown university. 



And there is no work of the university 

 more worthy or more needed than medical 

 instruction and medical research, the train- 

 ing of men who shall help their fellows in 

 all their bodily ills, on the basis of the 

 best and fullest knowledge, while them- 

 selves adding day by day to the world's 

 stock of wisdom. In these days medical re- 

 search stands on the firing line of the ad- 

 vance of science. There is no branch of 

 knowledge which is moving more rapidly 

 and there is none which contributes equally 

 to the aggregate of human welfare. 



"We dedicate to-day the home of the Lane 

 Memorial Library of Stanford University 

 to medical practise and medical research. 

 It is the gift of the will of Mrs. Levi Cooper 

 Lane. It begins its existence with a hand- 

 some building, adequate for its needs for 

 years to come. When it must be extended 

 we hope that the grateful people of San 



* Address by David Starr Jordan at the dedica- 

 tion, November 3, 1912. 



