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. 



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

 Astronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering. ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Charles D. Walcott, Geology ; "W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osborn, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Meeriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessky, N. L. Brixton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

 DITOH, Physiology ; J. S. BiLLiNGS, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, Pathol- 

 ogy ; J. McKebn Cattell, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, June 27, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 



The Royal Society of Canada: — 



The Universities in Relation to Research: 



President James Loxidon 1001 



Section of the Geological and Biological 



Sciences: Dr. G. U. Hay 1009 



Section of the Mathematical, Physical and 

 Chemical Sciences: Professor W. Lash 

 Miller 1012 



Proilems in the Chemistry and Toxicology of 

 Plant Substances : Db. V. K. Chesnut. . . . 1016 



Scientific Books: — 



Reports on Plans for the Extermination of 

 Mosquitoes on the North Shore of Long 

 Island: Professor John B. Smith. Cross 

 and Sevan's Researches on Cellulose: 

 Dk. a. F. Woods 1028 



Scientific Journals and Articles 1030 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. Biological Society of 

 Washington: F. A. Lucas. The Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis: Professor Wil- 

 liam Tbelease , 1030 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Explosive Force of Volcanoes: Rob't 



H. Gordon ' 1033 



Shorter Articles : — 



Black Rain in North Carolina: Professor 

 Chas. Baskerville and H. R. Weller. 

 The Range of the Fox Snake: Ma:s Mouse. 1034 



A Proposed American Anthropologic Asso- 

 ciation: W J M 1035 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science 1036 



Scientific Notes and Neics 1036 



University and Educational News 1040 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- 

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



TEE UNIVERSITIES IN RELATION TO 

 RESEARCH.* 



It is noAv many years since I came to the 

 conclusion that the provision of adequate 

 facilities for research is one of the prime 

 necessities of university education in Can- 

 ada ; and it is with the object of accelerat- 

 ing the movement Avhich has already begun 

 in this direction that I have selected the 

 relation of the universities to research as 

 the topic of my remarks on this occasion. 



It will perhaps be expedient for me at 

 the outset to say that I propose to use the 

 word research in its widest meaning, i. e., 

 as indicating those efforts of the human 

 mind which result in the extension of 

 knowledge, whether siich efforts are exerted 

 in the field of literature, of science or of 

 art. It is a common mistake to apply the 

 term research to what we somewhat erro- 

 neously denominate as 'science,' meaning 

 thereby the physical and natural sciences. 

 This limitation is comparatively modern, 

 and science so defined is after all only a 

 part of hiunan knowledge. 



The limits of research in its wider sense 

 are coterminous with the knowable, and re- 

 search itself is of very ancient date. The 

 fund of knowledge accimiulated even be- 

 fore the Christian era was enormous. This 

 great fund, however, remained stationary, 



* Address of the President of the Royal Society 

 of Canada at the Toronto Meeting, May 27, 1902. 



