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EmiOEiAL C05IMITTEE : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeino, 



Astronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; E. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Eemsen, Chemistry ; 



Joseph Le Conte, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osborn, Paleontology ; 



W. K. Brooks, 0. Hart Meeriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. E. Bessby, 



N. L. Brixton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bowditch, 



Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 



J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, August 24, 1900. 



CONTEJVTS: 



The Missioii of Science in Education : Professor 

 John M. Coulter 281 



The Zeeman Effect : De. Herbert M. Eeese. . . 293 



European Apple Tree Canker in America : W. 

 Paddock 297 



Zoology at the American Association : Professor 



C. H. ElGBNMANN 299 



Scientific Books : — • 



Bourne's Introduction to the Comparative Anat- 

 omy of Animals : Professor J. S. Kingsley. 

 Professor Mosso's Lectures at the Clark Univer- 

 sity Decennial : Professor 6. V. N. Deae- 



BOEN 311 



Scientific Journals and Articles 313 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Three forgotten names for Birds : William J. 

 Fox 314 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L H 314 



The University of Birmingham : Peofessor E. H. 

 Thueston 315 



37(6 Prevention of Sail Storms '. . . 316 



The British Congress on Tuberculosis 316 



Scientific Notes and News 317 



I and Educational News 320 



MSS. inteDded for publication and books, etc., Intended 

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor. Profes- 

 sor J McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. y. 



THE 3nSSI0N OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION* 

 The average graduate from an American 

 university needs no counsel as to his con- 

 duct when he comes to face ' the untried 

 world.' He has had his eyes open, and has 

 tried the world more or less, often too much; 

 and has already been surcharged with ad- 

 vice from those of larger experience. If he 

 does not know the elements of success, it is 

 not because he has failed to hear of them ; 

 and it only remains for him to receive the 

 teaching which comes from experience. I 

 address these graduates, therefore, with the 

 consciousness that it is too late to add ef- 

 fective advice, and too early to appeal \;o 

 their experience. I come, therefore, not to 

 youths who are about to be sent away for 

 the first time from the fostering care of a 

 mother, but to university men and women, 

 interested in whatever concerns higher edu- 

 cation, and I wish to speak to them of the 

 mission of science in education. 



In its broadest sense science includes all 

 knowledge, but the reference here made is 

 to the ordinary application of the word in 

 schemes of education. Perhaps even this 

 needs limitation, if by chance any one has 

 confused reading about science with scien- 

 tific training ; for reference is made to science 

 taught by the laboratory method, which 

 merely means direct and personal contact 

 with the subject matter. 



* An address delivered at the annual commence- 

 ment of the University of Michigan, June 21, 1900. 



