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 27, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



Technical Education in Relation to Industrial 

 Development: Chaeles G. Washbtjen... 97 



Scientific Books: — 



Holmes on the Biology of the Frog: E. 

 A. A. Lodge's Easy Mathematics: Pko- 



FESSOE G. A. MiLLEE 112 



Societies and Academies: — 



The St. Louis Chemical Society: C. J. 



BORGMEYEE 115 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Hailstorm of June 23: W. K. 

 Geegoey. Sauropodan Oastroliths : Geo. 

 L. Cannon. The Smithsonian Institution 

 an Institute of Research: Peofessor David 



M. MOTTIEB. 115 



Special Articles: — 



Evidences of Qlaciation in Southern Arizona 

 and Northern Sonora: De. Fbedeeick J. 

 . H. Meebill. Zygospores and Sexual 

 Strains in the Common Bread Mould, 

 Rhizopus Nigricans: De. A. F. Blakeslee. 

 Results from, Moore's Method of Shipping 

 Bacteria on Cotton: H. A. Haeding 116 



Quotations : — 

 Zoological Gardens and Scientific Research 124 



The Will of Alfred Beit 125 



Scientific Notes and Netos 125 



University and Educational News 127 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN RELATION TC 

 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT."^ 



The industrial development of the 

 United States has created a demand for 

 men with a technical education. The pres- 

 ence in the community of men with a tech- 

 nical education contributes to the more 

 rapid development of our industrial enter- 

 prises. Each factor is at once a cause and 

 a result and neither could be most effective 

 without the other. 



The history of industrial development 

 and of industrial education are naturally 

 inseparable. They must be treated to- 

 gether if one would understand their inter- 

 dependence. It was never intended by the 

 mother country that her New England col- 

 ony should ever engage in manufacturing. 



The Earl of Chathain once said that the 



Colonists had no right to manufacture so much 

 as a single horse shoe nail. 



In 1750 a law was passed by parliament 

 which prohibited the 'erection or continu- 

 ance of any mill or other engine for slitting 

 or rolling iron, or any plating forge to 

 work with a tilthammer, or any furnace 

 for making steel in the colonies under pen- 

 alty of two hundred pounds. ' Every such 

 mill, engine, forge or furnace was declared 

 a common nuisance which the governors of 

 the province were bound to abate. The 

 real cause of the revolution is to be found 

 in the discontent of the colonies with such 

 legislative oppression. 



The war of the revolution, stopping all 



^ Commencement address, June 14, 1906, at the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, by Mr. Charles 

 G. Washburn, president of the corporation. 



