SCIENCE 



Friday, April 16, 1915 



CONTENTS 

 The Universities a7id Investigation: Peofessoe 

 Ralph S. Lillie 553 



The National Academy of Sciences 566 



Eierhard Fraas: Professor Henry Faie- 



PIELD OSBOEN 571 



The SoeJcefeller Foundation and General 

 Gorgas 572 



fio Notes and News 572 



and Educational News 574 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Botany in Agricultural Colleges: A. N. 

 Hume. Some Notes on Albinism: De. 

 Arthur M. Banta. Albinism in the Eng- 

 lish Sparrow: H. S. Swaeth, Maunsell 



SCHIEPPELIN CEOSBY, De. F. L. WaSHBDRN, 



Gr. Bathuest Hony, Jas. Dkummond 575 



An Attack on the Sealth Law of New Yorlc 

 State 579 



He Books: — 

 Calkins 's Biology: Professor C. E. Mc- 

 Clung. Shimer's Introduction to the Study 

 of Fossils: Peofessoe Peecy E. Raymond. 580 



Special Articles: — 



On the Life of Animals with Suppressed 

 Kidney Function: Professor Maetin H. 

 Fischee 584 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Chicago Academy of Sciences. The 

 Biological Society of Washington: M. W. 

 Lyon, Jr. Anthropological Society of 

 Washington: Daniel Folkmar. Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis: C. H. Danforth. 586 



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

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

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



TBE UNIVERSITIES AND INVESTIGATIOm 



As a representative of the uidversity and 

 as one but recently come to live among 

 you, it is perhaps fitting that I should use 

 the opportunity which President Hall has 

 so kindly given me to discuss certain phases 

 of university work in which many of my 

 own chief interests lie, but which are not 

 often brought before the attention of our 

 public. I refer to the relations of the uni- 

 versities of the country to original investi- 

 gation, and particularly to scientific inves- 

 tigation, since it is with a part of this — 

 and necessarily in these days of specializa- 

 tion a small part — that I am personally 

 concerned. Mtiny of us in America have 

 lived through a period in which the pur- 

 poses and scope of the universities were 

 at first not very clearly conceived; but 

 as time has passed the situation has 

 changed, and on the whole an agreement 

 now prevails, which is likely to be perma- 

 nent, regarding certain features of univer- 

 sity policy which once were subjects of dis- 

 pute. One of these is that investigation is 

 an essential part of the work of every uni- 

 versity. "We now recognize that the uni- 

 versities have a double function to per- 

 form : one, that of disseminating liberal and 

 scientific knowledge ; the other, that of add- 

 ing to it. There is nothing new in the 

 idea that the chief concern of universities 

 is liberal knowledge; i. e., knowledge of a 

 kind not directed primarily toward special 

 or utilitarian or personal ends, but scien- 

 tific or humane knowledge, relating espe- 

 cially to those matters which have a broad 

 human significance and general applica- 



1 Founder 's Day Address at Clark University. 



