SCIENCE 



Friday, Februabt 5, 1915 



CONTENTS 

 The Present and Future of Botany in America: 

 Propessoe Douglas H. Campbell 185 



The Carnegie Institution, of Washington .... 191 



The Bureau of Mines 200 



The University of Cincinnati Bureau of City 

 Tests 201 



The Retirement of Charles Horton Fech 202 



Scientific Notes and News 202 



University and Educational News 207 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Fundamental Equation of Mechanics: 

 Professor Edward V. Huntington. Geo- 

 logic History of Lake Lahontan: Hoyt S. 

 Gale. Botany in the Agricultural Col- 

 leges: C. V. Piper. In Begard to the 

 Poisoning of Trees iy Potassio Cyanide: 

 Professor Fernando Sanford 207 



Quotations: — 

 The Organisation of Science 214 



Scientific Boohs:- — ■ 



Cabrera's Fauna liSrica: Dr. W. J. Hol- 

 land. Johnston on The Modern High 

 School: Clayton C. Kohl 214 



Plant Autographs 218 



Special Articles: — 



Inheritance in the Honey Bee: Wilmon 

 Newell. Tillite in New Hampshire: Eob- 

 ERT W. Satles 21 8 



The Philadelphia Meeting of the American 

 Anthropological Association: Bobert H. 

 LowiE 221 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE PSESENT AND FUTUBE OF BOTANY 

 IN AMEBICAi 



If we go back a generation, say to the 

 early '80 's, we find up to this time most of 

 the work published by American botanists 

 was taxonomie. For some time before this, 

 however, evidences of an awakening to 

 other aspects of the science were evident 

 and the next decade brought an extra- 

 ordinary extension of botanical interest 

 in other lines of work. Morphology, 

 physiology, and especially cytology began 

 to demand attention. 



This was the period also when the gov- 

 ernment began to consider seriously the 

 application of botanical science to the great 

 agricultural problems of the country. Most 

 of the agricultural experiment stations, 

 date from this time, and it is unnecessary 

 to point out the great influence which these 

 have had in directing the activities of so 

 many of the ablest workers in the field of 

 botany. 



As one looks back over this period of 

 some thirty-five years one can not but be 

 struck with the great increase in the num- 

 ber of botanical workers and the enormous 

 number of publications recording the re- 

 sults of their work. 



During the 70 's and early 80 's the oppor- 

 tunities for advanced work in botany, aside 

 from purely taxonomie work, were very in- 

 adequate, even in our best universities ; and 

 students who were ambitious to avail them- 

 selves of the best instruction in botanical 

 methods were almost perforce obliged to 



1 Presidential address of Professor Douglas H. 

 Campbell, of Stanford University. Eead before 

 the Botanical Society of America at their dinner 

 on December 30, 1914. 



