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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Eriday, November 23, 1906. 



C01<ITE'NT8. 

 The University and the World's Great Work- 

 shop: Dr. John A. Brasheae 641 



ScientifiG Books: — 



Hallock and Wade's Outline of the Evolu- 

 tion of Weights and Measures: Professor 

 J. H. Gore. Wiechmann's Notes on Electro- 

 chemistry : Professor Joseph W. Richards 652 



Scientific Journals and Articles 653 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society : W. H. 

 Bussey. The American Philosophical So- 

 ciety 654 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Correspondence Relating to a Study of an 

 Area of Crystalline Rocks in South Western 

 New England: Professor Wm. H. Hobbs. 655 



Special Articles : — 



A Statistical Study of American Men of 

 Science, the Selection of a Group of One 

 Thousand Scientific Men: Professor J. Mc- 

 Keen Cattell. a Note on Assortative 

 Mating : Professor Vernon L. Kellogg . . 658 



The Salaries of Professors 666 



ScientifiG Notes and Neics 671 



University and Educational Neivs 672 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE UNIVERSITY AND THE WORLD'S 

 GREAT WORKSHOP.^ 



President Drinker, Trustees, Alumni, Fac- 

 ulty, Students and Friends of Old 

 Lehigh: 



It was with a feeling of diffidence that 

 I consented to address you on this the 

 fortieth anniversary of the founding of 

 your university— knowing the difficult task 

 I should have in following the splendid 

 men who have addressed you on former 

 occasions, but your president, aided by 

 some of his good friends from the great 

 body of your alumni in western Pennsyl- 

 vania, so adroitly laid the trap for me that 

 escape was well-nigh impossible. 



However, I must say that I am not at 

 all reluctant to be found among my friends 

 at Lehigh. For many years I have been 

 more or less intimately associated with the 

 men who have been telling factors in 

 making Lehigh what she is to-day, men 

 who have not only helped to push outward 

 the borders of human knowledge, but have 

 do7ie things that count in the workshops of 

 the world. The Founder's Day you cele- 

 brate must be one of very happy memory 

 to many who are here. Could Judge 

 Packer look upon this scene that v/e are 

 permitted to witness to-day (and who can 

 say that he does not)— could he see these 

 splendid buildings you have completed,- 

 dedicated and used for the higher educa- 

 tion, others that are being constructed for 



^ An address by John A. Brashear, D.Sc, LL.D., 

 of Pittsburg, Pa., at Lehigh University, South 

 Bethlehem, Pa., October 11, 1906. 



