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. 



Editorial Committed : S. Nkwcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 

 Astronomy ; T. C. Mkndenhall, Physios ; K. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Rkmsen, Chemistry ; 

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

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

 Bessey, N. L. Britton, Botany ; C. S. MiNOT, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

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

 Pathology ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, October 31, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 



Some Features of American Higher Educa- 

 tion : Presidekt Edmund J. James 681 



On the Position of the Northern Circiim- 

 polar Stai-s : Milton Updegeaff 689 



Tlie Carnegie Institution: Professor Joseph 

 Jastrow, Dr. Charles Wakdell Stiles, 

 Professor E. H. Richards, Bailey Wil- 

 lis 693 



Scientific Books: — 



Hay's Bibliography and Catalogue of the 

 Fossil Vertebrata of North Ame7-ica: Pro- 

 fessor Bashford Dean. Hardest.y on 

 Neurological Technique: Professor G. 

 Carl Huber 701 



Scientific Joiirnals and Articles 704 



Societies and Academics: — 



Research Club of the University of Michi- 

 gan: Professor Frederick C. Newcombe . . 704 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Question of Terminology: Professor 

 Douglas Houghton Campbell. The Ea;- 

 pansion of Gas into a Vacuum and the 

 Kinetic Theory of Gases : Peter Fireman . 705 



Shorter Articles: — 



Bacterium Truttce, a New Species of Bac- 

 terium Pathogenic to Trout: M. C. Marsh. 

 Discovery of a Musk-ox Skull (Ovibos cavi- 

 frons LeidyJ in West Virginia: J. B. 

 Hatcher. Exceptions to Mendel's Law: 

 W. J. Splllman. a Realistic Dream : 

 Charles A. White 706 



Recent Zoopaleontology : — 



A Remarkable New Mammal from Japan; 

 Eocene Sirenians in Egypt ; Progress in the 

 Exploration for Fossil Horses: H. F. Os- 

 born 713 



Scientific Notes and Neics 715 



University and Educational Neics 720 



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

 for review stiould be sent to tbe responsible editor, Pro- 

 fes'^or J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hiidson, N. Y. 



SOME FEATURES OF AMERICAN HIGHER 

 EDUCATION* 



The first characteristic, then, of our 

 American system of higher education is the 

 hearty cooperation of state, church and 

 private eiSort in the work of founding and 

 developing a group of institutions which 

 taken as a whole should supply the need 

 of higher training. And the educational 

 welfare of the country demands that this 

 cooperation shall continue, at least for an 

 indefinite time to come. 



We, as a people, cannot afford to let the 

 interest of the state, of the church, or of 

 private individuals in higher education 

 languish or die. It is a striking testimony 

 to the essential oneness of the American 

 people, to the essential soundness of our 

 educational life that all these different in- 

 stitutions are working consciously toward 

 the same ends ; that the fundamental quali- 

 ties of American citizenship are developed 

 in all alike and that the ideals of all these 

 various institutions in this respect are the 

 same. The alert, wide-awake, conscien- 

 tious, devoted lover of his country and his 

 kind, the prudent, painstaking, truth- 

 loving scholar is the product of all alike. 



Another peculiarity of American univer- 

 sities distinguishing them from their 



* From the inavigural addre.ss of Dr. Edmund 

 J. James as president of Northwestern University, 

 given on October 21, 1902. 



