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Friday, Mat 29, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 The Day of the Expert: Dr. Benjamin I\rES 

 GiLMAN 771 



A Tribute to Dr. Henry P. Walcott 779 



The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 

 of Teaching 780 



The Preliminary Announcement of the San- 

 Francisco Meeting of the American Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science 781 



Scientific Notes and News 782 



University and Educational News 784 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Modesty Overworked: PEorESSOK J. Plat- 

 TAIR McMUKRicK. The Fanny Emden 

 Prise of the Paris Academy: Peofessoe 

 Joseph Jasteow 785 



Scientific BooJcs : — 



Grah-am-Smith on Flies in Belation to Dis- 

 ease: Db. L. O. Howaed. Tilden on the 

 Progress of Scientific Chemistry : Peofessoe 

 Wilder D. Bancroft 787 



Botanical Notes: — 



Protococcus, not Pleurococcus ; Short Notes: 

 Peofessoe Chaeles E. Bessbt 790 



Special Articles:— 



The Solar Spectrum and the Earth's Crust: 

 Peofessoe Henry Noeeis Eussell 791 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section K — Physiology and Experimental 

 Medicine: De. L. O. Howard 794 



The American Physical Society: Peofessoe 

 A. D. Cole 796 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. II: 

 De. a. Parkee Kitchens 798 



MSS. iBtscded for publication and bosks, etc., iatended for 

 revisw siiould be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 OQ-Hudson. N. Y. 



TSE DA¥ OF TSE EXPEETt- 



The papers read before the American 

 Association of Museums during the eight 

 years of its life have covered a wide range 

 of topics, reaching, one might imagine, the 

 whole circle of museum interests. Yet 

 there is one question, antecedent to all 

 others, which has never been asked, and but 

 once approached, in your presence. This is 

 the question: Just what use are all these 

 papers ? We meet to develop and exchange 

 our ideas; but when we separate, what 

 power have we to put into effect what we 

 have concluded and learned? We have 

 the voice here. How much voice have we at 

 home? 



This question of official scope we share 

 with every similar association; and with 

 several it has recently become a burning 

 question. Just a year ago there was formed 

 an association of university professors for 

 the determination and maintenance of pro- 

 fessorial rights ; and last winter the Ameri- 

 can Political Science Association and the 

 Philosophical and Psychological Associa- 

 tions appointed committees to consider and 

 report upon like matters. 



A problem of problems like this offers 

 appropriate matter for an initial presiden- 

 tial address ; and its simultaneous agitation 

 elsewhere suggests treating it in the broad- 

 est possible way — as a concern, not of one 

 profession, but of all professions. Thus 

 amplified, the topic becomes that of the 

 present and future status of the specialist 

 in the United States. Par as this theme 

 stretches beyond the work of the permanent 



1 Presidential address, given at the ninth annual 

 meeting of the American Association of Museums, 

 held in Milwaukee, May 19-21, 1914. 



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