SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 21, 1915 



CONTENTS 

 ^Reminiscences of the Woods Sole Labora- 

 tory of the Bureau of Fisheries: Peo- 

 FEssoB Edwin Linton 737 



The International Engineering Congress .... 753 



Edith Jane Claypole 754 



Scientific Notes and News 754 



University and Educational News 757 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Balanced Solutions and Nutritive Solutions: 

 De. Jacques Loeb. The Typical Case Ex- 

 emplified: X. A Typical Case: S. L. Mac- 

 Donald 757 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Keen on Animal Experimentation and Med- 

 ical Progress: Peopessob Feedeeig S. Lee. 

 Sosenhain's Introduction to the Study of 

 Physical Metallurgy: Peofessoe W. Camp- 

 bell 760 



Special Articles: — 

 The Temporal Fossce of Vertebrates in re- 

 lation to the Jaw Muscles: De. W. K. 

 Geegoey and L. a. Adams 763 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section D — Mechanical Science and Engi- 

 neering: Peofessoe Aethue H. Blanchaed. 765 



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

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

 es-Hndson, K. Y. 



EEMINISCENCES OF THE WOODS HOLE 



LABORATORY OF TEE BUREAU OF 



FISHERIES, 18S2-S91 



On February 9, 1871, a law was passed 

 by Congress which directed the President 

 to appoint a man of approved scientific and 

 practical knowledge of fish and fisheries, to 

 be chosen from among the civil officers of 

 the government, who was to serve as U. S. 

 Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries with- 

 out additional salary. 



This act virtually defined Spencer F. 

 Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, who thereupon was appointed com- 

 missioner by the President. The commis- 

 sioner was clothed with unusual powers; 

 for the act instructed the heads of the vari- 

 ous executive departments to render the 

 commissioner such assistance as might lie in 

 their power. Frequent acknowledgments 

 of the cooperation of the departments of the 

 treasury, war, interior and navy are found 

 in the earlier reports of the Fish Com- 

 mission. 



The immediate problem before the com- 

 missioner was : An inquiry into the decrease 

 of food fishes. It is interesting to note that 

 Professor Baird chose Woods Hole as the 

 place for beginning research on this prob- 

 lem. That was in the summer of 1871. 

 Those associated with him were Professors 

 A. E. Verrill, Theodore N. Gill and Sydney 

 I. Smith. 



The headquarters in 1872 were at Bast- 

 port, Maine; in 1873 at Portland, Maine; 

 in 1874 at Noank, Connecticut; in 1875 

 again at Woods Hole. During the year 



1 A lecture delivered before the Marine Biolog- 

 ical Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., August 7, 

 1914. 



