SCIENCE 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickerino, 



Astronomy ; T. C. Mendenfall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsbn, Chemistry ; 



Joseph Le Conte, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry P. Osboen, Paleontology ; 



W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Mereiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. E. Bessey, 



N. L. Beitton, 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. 



IFridat, Wovembee 2, 1900. 



CONTENTS: 



The Belaiion of Educated lien to the State : Pres- 

 ident Heney S. Pritchett 657 



Engineering Education in the United States at the 



End of the Century : lEA O. Baker 666 



Progress in Irrigation Investigations : W. H. BeAL. 674 



Bemeasurement of the Peruvian Are : I. W 676 



The Annual Sleeting of the Botanical Society of 



America: Peofessoe Geoege F. Atkinson... 677 

 Scientific Books : — 



Publications of the EarthqiiaJce Investigation Com- 

 mittee : Peesident T. C. Mendenhall ; The 

 International Congress of Applied Mechanics : 

 Peofessoe R. H. Thurston ; Fricker on the 

 Antarctic Begions : Peofessoe William Lib- 

 bey ; Elementary Text-hooks in Physiology : PEO- 

 FESSOE Fredeeio S. Lee ; Folk-lore in Borneo : 



A. C. F 678 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Newspaper Science : T. C. M. ; The Date of Piih- 

 lication of Brewster's American Edition of the 

 Edinburgh Encyclopaedia : Witmee Stone ; 

 Tlie Speneer-Tolles Fund of the American Micro- 

 scopical Society 684 



Societies and Academies : 



Torrey Botanical Club 686 



Notes on Oceanography : — 



The Deepest Fiord on the Labrador Coast ; Drift- 

 ice and the Theory of Ocean Currents; Nomen- 

 clature of Terms used in Ice Navigation : Dr. 



Reginald A. Daly 688 



American Electricians in London : Professor E. 



H. Thueston 689 



Wireless Telegraphy 690 



Species of Mosquitoes Collected for the British Mu- 

 seum 691 



Yellow Fever and Mosquitoes 692 



Scientific Notes and News 693 



University and Educational Neios 695 



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

 for review sliould be sent to tlie responsible editor, Profes- 

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



THE BELATION OF EDUCATED 3IEN TO THE 

 STATE.* 



I SHOULD fail to do justice to my own 

 feeling did I not pause for one moment to 

 acknowledge the kindly greeting which has 

 just been extended to me at the beginning 

 of my life among you. For the words of 

 encouragement which have been spoken, 

 for the assurance of cooperation and sup- 

 port, for the cordial personal welcome, I am 

 more grateful than I can say. The response 

 to such words and to such welcome is not 

 to be made at this time and at this place. 

 It can be given only in the years of service 

 which lie before us. 



In choosing a subject upon which I might 

 address you to-day, I have felt strongly in- 

 fluenced to call to j'our attention certain 

 conclusions which touch upon that great 

 interest which is the common bond which 

 brings us together to-day — the education of 

 men. 



It was my fortune some years ago to pass 

 from a university place to that of an execu- 

 tive ofiBce of the general government ; to go 

 from the work of training students to a 

 corps of men who are recruited almost 

 wholly frbm the ranks of college graduates. 

 In the attempt to secure for the government 

 service men of the best training, the relation 



* Inaugural Address of Dr. H. S. Pritchett, late 

 Superintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, as President of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



