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. Nbwcomb, Mathematics ; K. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Piokkeing 

 Astronomy ; T. C Mendenhall, Physics ; E. H. Thukston, Engineering ; Ira Rkmsen, Chemistry ; 

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

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Meeeiam, Zoology ; S. H. Soudder, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bkssey, N. L. Beitton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

 ditch, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene; William H. Welch, Pathol- 

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



Friday, October 3, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 

 The Carnegie Institution: Pkofessoe Hugo 



MtlNSTERBEKG, PROFESSOR SiMON HeNEY 



Gage, Professor J. C. Beanner, Presi- 

 dent David Starr Jorda;^ 521 



The Impending Crisis in the History of the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory: Professor 

 C. 0. Whitman 529 



The Address of the President of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, I,: Professor James Dewar 533 



Scientific Books: — 



Thorpe's Essays in Historical Chemistry: 

 President T. M. Drown 551 



Scientific Journals and Articles 552 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Investigation versus Erudition: 0. F. 

 Cook 552 



Shorter Articles: — 



Prepotency in Polydactylous Cats: Dr. 

 Harry Beal Toerey 554 



Magnetic Work of the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey: Dr. L. A. Bauer. . 555 



The Hugh Miller Centenary 556 



The British Association 556 



Scientific Notes and News 557 



University and Educational News 560 



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. 



THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. 



The situation that confronts the Car- 

 negie Institution seems to me this: We do 

 not desire a break with the historical devel- 

 opment; the energies which have brought 

 about the rise of American scholarship to 

 the present level must work toward its fur- 

 ther advance. We are bound to the special 

 conditions and limits of those energies if 

 we do not wish to lose their benefits. Their 

 characteristics, it seems to me, are deter- 

 mined by two factors, utterly unknown, for 

 instance, in Germany. First, the supporting 

 activity in the periphery of the national 

 circle as over against the German govern- 

 mental support. In Germany the aid came 

 in centrifugal paths, in America in cen- 

 tripetal ones. Secondly, the order of the 

 five hundred higher educational institu- 

 tions in a sliding scale as over against the 

 sharp demarcation lines of German schools 

 and universities. These two factors belong 

 of course together; both were necessary 

 under the conditions of American history, 

 and their influence must not be impaired, 

 but rather turned to use in planning new 

 progxess. 



For our concrete question the first factor, 

 the activity in the periphery, seems to me 

 to work in a negative way, as a limitation 

 on all those plans which suggest themselves 

 at the first glance. Everywhere we see de- 

 partments, laboratories, whole institutions, 



