SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVAN'-EMENT OF SCIENCE. 



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

 Astronomy ; T. C. Mbndenhall, Physics ; K. H. Thorston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

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

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

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

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

 Pathology ; J. McKben Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, November 28, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 



The Role of Chemistry in University Educa- 

 tion : Peofessoe H. W. Wiley 841 



The Huxley Lecture on Recent Studies of Im- 

 munity, ivith Special Reference to their 

 Bearing on Pathology, II.: Peofessoe Wil- 

 liam H. Welch 850 



Scientific Books: 



International Catalogue of Scientific hitera- 

 ture, Botany: Peofessoe Chaeles E. 

 Bessey. Catalogue of the Crosby Brown 

 Collection of Musical Instruments of All 

 Nations, Eiirope: Chaeles K. Wead. An- 

 nual Report of the Chief of the Bureau of 

 Steam Engineering of the Navy Depart- 

 ment: Peofessoe R. H. Thueston 861 



Scientific Journals and Articles 865 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 Chaeles K. Wead. The New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Astronomy, Physics and 

 Chemistry: De. S. A. Mitchell. The 

 Torrey Botanical Cluh : Peofessoe Edwaed 

 S. Burgess. Columbia University Geolog- 

 ical Journal Club : H. W. Shimee. The 

 Toronto Astronomical Society: 3. R. Col- 

 lins 865 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Question in Terminology: Peofessoe L. 

 M. Undeewood. a Point in Nomenclature : 

 President David Stare Jordan. New 

 York Archeology : De. W. M. Beadchamp. 

 Prickles of the Prickly Ash: Peofessoe J. 

 B. Dandeno. The Next Eruption of Pelee : 

 Db. T. a. Jaggae, Je 869 



Shorter Articles: — 



The Ethnological Significance of Esoteric 

 Doctrines: Peofessoe Feanz Boas 872 



The Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientifio 

 Papers 874 



Scientific Notes and News 876 



University and Educational Neivs 879 



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 RULE OF CHEMISTRY IN UNIVERSITY 

 EDUCATION." 



The installation of a new chemical labo- 

 ratory as an adjunct to university educa- 

 tion, while not unusual in our country, is 

 always attended with interesting features. 

 From a description of the plans of this 

 building, published in Science, in Decem- 

 ber, 1900, I learn that an attempt has been 

 made to combine all the modern features 

 of value which recent laboratories have 

 developed. It is true that the material of 

 which this edifice is composed is mostly the 

 product of Kansas. In fact, the stone, in 

 part, was taken from the very site on which 

 the laboratory stands. The plans, however, 

 which were adopted and the details which 

 were carried out are the results of an ex- 

 tensive inquiry and personal inspection on 

 the part of the director of the laboratory 

 and the architect. I could not but notice, 

 in looking over these detailed plans, how 

 many of the best features of modern labo- 

 ratories with which I have been acquainted 

 have been incorporated into the plans of 

 this building. We have here a complete 

 structure designed for a specific purpose, 

 built under the personal direction of those 

 most skilled and competent, both in archi- 

 tecture and technical knowledge, and now 



* Address delivered at the dedication of the new 

 chemical laboratory of the University of Kansas, 

 at Lawrence, October 16, 1902. 



