SCIENCE 



APR 241911 



Friday, April 24, 1914 



CONTENTS 



The Predicament of Scholarship in America 

 and One Solution: Dr. F. C. Beown 587 



The New Mechanics: Professor Louis T. 

 More 595 



George Westinghouse: S. T. Wellman 599 



Biological Station Worh at the University of 

 Wisconsin 601 



Pacific Association of Scientific Societies .... 602 



Scientific Notes and News 603 



University and Educational News 606 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Priority Overworked: Professor A. E. 

 Verrill. The Educational Value of Mathe- 

 matics: Professor Charles N. Moore. 

 Sex in Multiple Births: Dr. Edward N. 

 Wentworth 607 



Scientific Boohs: — 

 CsapeJc on Biochemie der Pflamen: Pro- 

 fessor Edward Kremers. Scott's History 

 of Land Mammals in the Western Hemi- 

 sphere: Professor Eichard S. Lull. 

 Danielson and Davenport's The Hill Folk: 

 Dr. a. C. Eogers. Lee's The Microtomist's 

 Vade-mecum: B. P. Kingsbury 612 



The Official List of Zoological Names: Dr. C. 

 W. Stiles 619 



Special Articles: — 

 A Must — New on Apples, Pears and Other 

 Pome Fruits: Dr. P. J. O'Gara. A Pos- 

 sible Mutant in the Bellwort which Prevents 

 Seed Formation: DrS. A. F. Blakeslee 

 and a. F. Schulze 620 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Anthropological Society of Washing- 

 ton: Dr. Daniel Folkmar. The New Or- 

 leans Academy of Scienoes: R. S. Cocks . . 622 



MSS. Intendea for publication and books 

 review should be sent to Professor J. MoKeei 

 On-Hudson. N. Y. 



etc., intended for 

 Cattell, Qarrison- 



THE PBEDICAMENT OF SCHOLARSHIP IN 

 AMEBICA AND ONE SOLVTIOm 



What is scholarship? The answer is: 

 The discovering, the organizing and the 

 explaining of new facts. Only the unin- 

 formed and unscholarly are in the habit of 

 designating the mere diffusion of knowl- 

 edge as scholarship. The man who merely 

 reads and speaks what he reads is no 

 scholar, nor is the man a scholar who 

 merely requires others to study what is al- 

 ready known. Any nation that believes 

 only in the diffusion of knowledge is on the 

 road to decay. But it is not my purpose to 

 prove the generally accepted notion that 

 productive scholarship is the only scholar- 

 ship. We must, however, agree on the 

 value of scholarship or the argument in this 

 paper can have no importance. That no 

 one may say that our subject is idle talk, I 

 want to say, I believe for any nation that 

 has any hope of perpetual existence that 

 the scholars are the most essential of any 

 class of society. And may we postulate, for 

 the sake of the argument, that God will 

 not provide and take care of the scholars? 



And what is the predicament of scholar- 

 ship in America? Simply this: That the 

 institutions that have attempted to foster 

 scholarship have not lived up to their op- 

 portunities. We may inquire into the rea- 

 sons later. The one solution that the au- 

 thor proposes is to establish a new and 

 higher institution, whose sole purpose 

 would be to promote scholarship, and 

 thereby furnish a new inspiration to edu- 

 cational, industrial and private establish- 

 ments. 



1 Bead before the Outlook Club of the Univer- 

 sity of Iowa at the February meeting. 



