SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, July 6, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



The Formal Opening of the Laboratory of the 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search : — 



A Sketch of the Development of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research: Dk. 

 L. Emmett Holt 1 



The Endowment of Research: Dr. William 



H. Welch 6 



Address hy President Nicholas Murray 

 Butler 12 



Address hy President Charles W. Eliot . ... 13 



Scientific Books: — 



Fine's College Algebra: Pbofessoe J. Ed- 

 mund Weight 18 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: De. F. H. Pough. The 

 Torrey Botanical Club: C. Stuabt Gagee.. 19 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Intercollegiate Athletics and Scholarship: 

 Peofessoe William Tbufant Fostee. 

 Note on the Ypsiloid Apparatus of Crypto- 

 branchus: B. G. Smith. A Newly-found 

 Stony Meteorite: De. G. P. Meeeill 21 



Special Articles: — 



The Great Catalogue and Scientific Investi- 

 gation of the Eeber R. Bishop Collection 

 of Jade : De. Geoege Feedebick Kunz. The 

 Rock of the Pelee Obelisk and the Condition 

 of the Volcano in February, 1906: De. 

 Angelo Heilpein 23 



The Commission for Brain Investigation.... 26 



William T. Sedgwick 27 



Scientific Notes and News 28 



University cmd Educational News ,, 31 



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 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. saa ' 



THE FORMAL OPENING OF THE LABORA- 

 TORY OF THE ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE 

 FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH.^ 



A SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OP THE 



ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE FOR 



MEDICAL RESEARCH. 



Five years ago there were in France, 

 Germany, England, Russia and Japan well- 

 equipped and endowed institutions for re- 

 search in medicine. In this country not 

 one existed. For pure and applied science, 

 all our higher institutions of learning had 

 their laboratories, their corps of instructors 

 and fellowships, and both opportunity and 

 encouragement were given to students to 

 take up original work. But how great the 

 contrast when we turn to medicine, whose 

 problems are related not only to the health 

 but even the life of the race. The poverty 

 of the resources of the medical institutions 

 was truly pitiful. Their laboratories were 

 for the instruction of students and pos- 

 sessed but little equipment beyond what 

 was necessary for this end. 



It was at this time that a group of five 

 men met in the Arlington Hotel at Wash- 

 ington just five years ago last week, at the 

 request of the founder of this institute, to 

 consider the question of the establishment 

 of an institution to promote research in 

 medicine. There could be but one opinion, 

 and, at the conference only one was ex- 

 pressed, viz., That the most urgent need 

 existed and that the time was ripe for the 

 foundation of such an institution in rJiis 

 country. 



^May 11, 1906. 



