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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XII. No. 309. 



President J. E. Stubbs, of the University 

 of Nevada, presided at the general sessions 

 and delivered the president's annual ad- 

 dress. He took strong ground regarding 

 the fundamental necessity for the direct 

 and indirect teaching of sound moral prin- 

 ciples in our public educational institutions 

 of all grades. " It is character and not in- 

 telligence that determines the historical de- 

 velopment of nations. It is character and 

 not intelligence that distinguishes one in- 

 dividual from another and contributes to 

 social well-being. The morality of the 

 race, together with its strength and vigor, 

 must be the principal object of education ; 

 all else is secondary." 



A carefully prepared and eloquent ad- 

 dress on the career of the late Senator Jus- 

 tin S. Morrill, of Vermont, was delivered 

 by President G. W. Atherton, of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College. President Ather- 

 ton's close association with Senator Morrill 

 for many years and his intimate familiarity 

 with the history of the movement for the 

 establishment of colleges and agricultural 

 experiment stations under national auspices 

 enabled him to treat this subject in a very 

 thorough and satisfactory manner, so that 

 his address will have a permanent histor- 

 ical value. 



Dr. Bernard Dyer, of London, England, 

 as the representative of the Lawes Agricul- 

 tural Trust, delivered the biennial course of 

 lectures provided for in that Trust. In these 

 he gave a resume of the investigations at 

 the Eothamsted Experiment Station during 

 the past fifty years with different kinds of 

 fertilizers on wheat, pointing out especially 

 the effects of different systems of manuring 

 on the amount and availability of the fertil- 

 izing constituents in the soils experimented 

 with. It is expected that a detailed ac- 

 count of this work will be published later 

 by the Department of Agriculture. Besides 

 resolutions of thanks to Dr. Dyer, the As- 

 sociation adopted a memorial showing its 



high appreciation of the life and work of 

 Sir John Bennet Lawes and his associates 

 at the Rothamsted Station. 



One day was spent at Middletown, where 

 the Association was most cordially received 

 and hospitably entertained by Wesleyan 

 University. The delegates were also given 

 a reception at the residence of Professor W. 

 O. Atwater and had the opportunity of see- 

 ing the Atwater-Rosa respiration calori- 

 meter in operation. At a meeting held in 

 the University chapel. Dr. W. H. Jordan, 

 Director of the New York State Experiment 

 Station, gave a historical address on the 

 American Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tions. Besides reviewing the rapid growth 

 of this great enterprise from its beginning 

 at Middletown twenty- five years ago and 

 pointing out the great scientific and prac- 

 tical results which it has already achieved, 

 Dr. Jordan strongly urged that the stations 

 should use every effort to put their work 

 more fully on a high scientific level and 

 devote themselves very largely to original 

 investigations. 



He was followed by Professor W. 0. At- 

 water, who gave a number of interesting 

 details regarding the establishment of the 

 Connecticut Station as the first State Station 

 in this country and showed that the influ- 

 ence of this station had been very great in 

 shaping the organization and work of other 

 stations. He also pointed out that a rela- 

 tively large number of men, now promi- 

 nently identified with the experiment station 

 enterprise in this country, had been trained 

 at Yale University, Wesleyan University, 

 and in connection with the work of the , 

 Connecticut Experiment Stations. 



In the Section of Agriculture and Chem- 

 istry much attention was naturally given to 

 discussions of investigations on tobacco, 

 the Connecticut State Station being engaged 

 in important work in this line. Dr. E. H. 

 Jenkins, Director of the Connecticut State 

 Station, read a carefully prepared paper 



