SCIENCE 



Feidat, Mat 8, 1914 



CONTENTS 



Frindples of Curriculum Making: Pkopessor 

 E. P. Lyon 661 



Industrial Fellowships of the Mellon Insti- 

 tute: The Late Professor Robert Ken- 

 nedy Duncan 672 



The New Peruvian Expedition under the Aus- 

 pices of Yale University and the National 

 Geographic Society: Professor Hiram 

 Bingham 679 



The Committee of One Hundred on Scientific 

 Sesearch of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science 680 



Sdentiflc Notes and News 682 



University and Educational News 686 



Discussion and Correspondence :— 



Multiple Factors in Heredity: Professor 

 W. E. Castle. Javel Water — a Simplified 

 and Corrected Spelling : J. P. Snell 695 



Scientific Books: — 



Johannsen's Manual of Petrographic Meth- 

 ods: Professor John E. Wolff. Catalogue 

 of Lepidoptera phalcenw: Dr. Harrison G. 

 Dyar. Goldschmidt on V ereriungswissen- 

 schaft: Professor A. Franklin Shull. 

 Hyde on Solvents, Oils, Gums, Waxes and 

 Allied Substances: Professor A. H. Gill. 690 



Special Articles: — 



Adaptation of the Tamarisk for Dry Lands : 

 Mark Alfred., Carleton 692 



Financial Statement of the Permanent Secre- 

 tary of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science . . . , 694 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Botanical Society of Washington: P. 

 L. EiCKER. The St. Louis Academy of Sci- 

 ence : Professor G. O. James 686 



Mas. intended for publication and boots, etc., intended for 

 MTiew Bhonid be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hodson, N. Y. 



PBINCIPLES OF CUBBICULUM MAKING^ 

 The favorite indoor sport of medical 

 educators is curriculum making. As a 

 game it ranks with jig-sawed pictures and 

 "pigs in clover." It is not yet entirely 

 clear whether this game should be played 

 according to Hoyle or Marquis of Queens- 

 bury rules. The scores are published in 

 our annual bulletins. Unfortunately no 

 clear method of recording results has been 

 devised. It is therefore hard to make com- 

 parisons, and no national champion has 

 ever been declared. An expert can usually 

 figure out the championship for any partic- 

 ular school. But the results wotild be 

 much clearer if printed in some such form 

 as this: 



Professor Smith, Champion. . . . 964 hours. 



Professor Jones, Runner -up. . . 807 hours. 



Professor Brown, Booby prize. 24 hours. 



It is evident that this game has interest- 

 ing possibilities. Its serious discussion on 

 this occasion may not be without value. 

 Several of the schools of this Association 

 have recently revised their curricula. 

 Others are engaged just now in this work. 

 These efforts are made necessary by a va- 

 riety of conditions. In general it may be 

 stated that dissatisfaction with the educa- 

 tional results obtained with existing courses 

 of study is the principal cause of the de- 

 sire for change. Furthermore, the new con- 

 ditions brought about by increased en- 

 trance requirements make a readjustment 

 of teaching desirable and perhaps impera- 

 tive. 



We Americans approach such a problem 



1 Presidential address at the meeting of the As- 

 sociation, of American Medical Colleges, February 

 25, 1914. 



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