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, November 30, 1906. THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURAL 



• ~ SCIENCE. 



CONTENTS. Tg^g Society for the Promotion of Agri- 



The Promotion of Agricultural Science: Pko- cultural Science was founded in the year 



1880, largely through the efforts of a few 

 Scientific Books: — , t> ^ ^ -, . 



Hilgard on Soils: Db. F. H. King. Hatch ^^n, most of whom have now passed to 



and Corstorphine's Geology of South Africa: their reward, who saw clearly the necessity 



W. M. D. Berlese's 'Gli Insetti: Dr. L. O. r. , ... 



Howard 681 ■'■^^ some such organization. 



Scientific Journals and Articles. .686 ^^ ^hat time the workers in agricultural 



„ . ,. , - , • science in the United States were few and 

 Societies and Academies: — 



The National Academy of Sciences. The scattered. While the oldest of the agricul- 



New York State Science Teachers' Associa- ^^^al colleges had been in existence for 

 tion: Professoe John F. Woodhull. Sec- .... 



tion of Geology and Mineralogy of the New SOme twenty-five years, these institutions 



York Academy of Sciences: Frofkssor A. ^^gj.e still comparatively feeble, with, in 

 W. Grabau. New York Section of the 



American Chemical Society : C. M. Joyce . . 686 most cases, few students, and struggling 



Discussion and Correspondence.— for recognition. The first agricultural ex- 



Principles which govern the United States periment station in the United States had 



Geological Survey in its Relations with the , ■, t -,-,-,, n ^ a j 



Geological Surveys and Working Geolo- been established but five years betore and 



gists: Dr. Charles D. Walcott. A New i^^d been fully taken over by the state two 

 Variety of Honorary Ph.D.: X. An Inter- n i • 



mittent Floxcing Well: Dr. S. W. Mc- years later. At the date of the foundation 

 Callie The Wireless Telegraph and Au- ^ ^y society, there existed in the United 



rora : C. J. Stuart. The Glacial Epoch .• •" 



Dr. J. M. ScHAEBERLE 692 States three state experiment stations, two 



Special Articles: university stations and one private station, 



Variation in Parthenogenetic Insects: Pro- ^j^^-^ fg^ means were available for personal 

 FESSOR Vernon L. Kellogg. A Statistical <. ■ i , , • 



Study of American Men of Science II.; the contact or exchange 01 ideas between m- 



Measurement of Scientific Merit: Profes- vestigators or for the publication of their 



BOR J. McKeen Cattell 69o ° ^, ^^ ^ ^ « A • 



results. The U. S. Department oi Agri- 



^'oXally'IttZ ^Zplundriohich contain culture was a comparatively small affair, 



no Asymmetric Atom: Dr. J. Bishop presided over by a commissioner, and its 



^^^^^^ '^^' scientific work was chiefly that of its chem- 



The Convocation Weelc Meetings of Scientific jg^ entomologist and veterinarian. 



Societies 70S jo 



The twenty-six years which have since 



Scientific Notes and Neios 709 , , , ., -, , i j„ 



elapsed have witnessed a phenomenal cle- 



University and Educational News 712 yelopment of agricultural education and 



; investigation, and the young student of the 



MSS. intended for publicatioB and books e^^^^ ,^^ ^ j^^^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^i, 



review should be sent to the Editor of bc^E^ct, (jarrison-on- i »' j 



T:ud.=o!i,K. Y. tions which existed a generation ago. Now, 



