SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Fkiday, August 3, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 

 To what Extent should the University In- 

 vestigator ie freed from Teaching? Presi- 

 dent David Starr Jordan 129 



Scientific Books: — 

 Loeb on the Dynamics of Living Matter: 

 Dr. S. J. Meltzer 145 



Scientific Journals and Articles 147 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Appeal for an Aero-physical Observatory in 

 ■Japan: Dr. S. T. Tamura. An Unusual 

 Meteor: E. E. Davis 148 



Special Articles: — 



On the Occurrence of Desmostylus, Marsh: 

 Professor John C. Merriam 151 



Quotations : — 



The Faculties in American Universities... 152 



Professor Henry A. Ward: Dr. Oliver C. 

 Farrington 153 



Fritz Schaudinn: Professor Gary N. Cal- 

 kins 154 



The Royal Botanic Society of London 155 



The International Institute of Sociology.... 156 



Results of the German Census 157 



Scientific Notes and News 158 



University and Educational News 160 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD THE UNIVER- 

 SITY INVESTIGATOR BE FREED FROM 

 TEACHING?^ 



There can be no single, direct answer to^ 

 this question. The answer depends on the 

 man ; on what he is doing or how he is try- 

 ing to do it. And if the man be really a 

 capable investigator, he will be most com- 

 petent to answer this question for himself. 

 There is then no collective problem admit- 

 ting of a single answer. The important 

 element lies in the premise that the uni- 

 versity must foster research as an integral 

 part of its work, for its own sake as an 

 institution, and for the good of hunianity. 

 It is research which has made universities 

 possible, and they must provide for the 

 continuance of the succession. Again,, 

 teaching without research is not university 

 teaching. In this sense, we must give a 

 broad definition to the word 'research.'' 

 Teaching from second-hand sources is 

 never good teaching. 



It is the duty of the university to dis- 

 cover, to coordinate and to disseminate 

 truth; and with this, to train scholars and 

 workers, and to develop personality and 

 character. In this many-sided work all 

 members of the university should take some 

 part, but this part in the nature of things 

 must be very unequal ; not many men excel 

 in all phases of university usefulness. 

 Some rare men are useful in the highest 

 degree — but in one line only. Around 

 those preeminent in the discovery of truth, 

 chairs of investigation may be built up. 



^ Read before the Seventh Annual Conference of 

 the Association of American Universities, held at 

 San Francisco, Berkeley and Palo Alto, Cali- 

 fornia, March 14-17, 1906. 



