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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, November 9, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



The Dedication of the Engineering Building 

 of the University of Pennsylvania: — 

 A Comparison of University and Industrial 

 Discipline and Methods: Dr. Frederick W. 

 Taylor 577 



The Engineer as a Citizen: President 

 Alex. C. Humphreys 583 



Scientific Books: — 



Folsom's Entomology : J. G. N. Norton's 

 Elements of Geology: Dr. Mark S. W. 

 Jefferson 589 



Scientific Journals and Articles 591 



Discussion and Correspondence:— 



A Definition of Fluid: OswiN W. Willcox. 

 Why do Herring Culls kill their Young?: 

 Henry L. Ward. An Unusual Meteor: C. 

 A. Chant. A Correction: J. W. Beede. . . £92 



Special Articles: — 



A New Artemia and its Life Conditions: 

 Professor Vernon L. Kellogg. Some Un- 

 usual New Jersey Fishes: Henry W. 

 Fowler 594 



Quotations : — 

 Botany in England 597 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



The Monthly Weather Review; Mammato- 

 cumulus Clouds; Bird Migration and 

 Weather in Hungary; Notes: Professor R. 

 DeC. Ward ..." 600 



Botanical Notes: — 



Papers on Fungi; California Trees: Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Bessey 601 



Degrees conferred hy the University of Aber- 

 deen 602 



The Franco-American Expedition to explore 

 the Atmosphere in the Tropics 603 



Society for the Promotion of Industrial Edu- 

 cation 603 



Scientific Notes and News 604 



University and Educational Neios 608 



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

 review sliould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrisou-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE DEDICATION OF THE ENGINEERINO 



BUILDING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



A COMPARISON OF UNIVERSITY AND IN- 

 DUSTRIAL DISCIPLINE AND METHODS. 



The point from which I view college 

 education is that of the employer, not that 

 of the educator. I have had no experience 

 with the difficult and complicated problem 

 that faces the professors and the governing 

 boards of our colleges. On the other hand, 

 I have been engaged for years in organ- 

 izing the shop, office and commercial man- 

 agement of quite a wide range of engineer- 

 ing and manufacturing establishments. 

 This has brought me into intimate personal 

 contact with a large number of college 

 graduates, and I have become well ac- 

 quainted with their strong points, which 

 are many, and at the same time with a few 

 of those points in which it would seem that 

 as a class they might be improved. And 

 in what I shall say I have principally in 

 mind the preparation of young men for 

 success in commercial engineering and in- 

 dustrial enterprises ; in other words, enter- 

 prises outside of the four learned profes- 

 sions. 



I despise the pessimist who sees nothing 

 but the defects and blunders of mankind, 

 and the scold, whose pleasure it is to com- 

 plain of all things as they are. 



Let me say at the start, that without 

 question our college graduates as a class- 

 represent the finest body of men in the^ 

 community. And as to the value of an 

 engineering course for men in our profes- 

 sion, our fellow-townsman, Mr. Jas. M. 



