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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 415. 



H. W. Olds : ' Form in Bird Music' 



F. A. Lucas : ' Ancient Birds and their Asso- 

 ciates.' Illustrated with lantern slides. 



Paul Bartsch : ' Observations on the Herons 

 of the District of Columbia.' Illustrated with 

 lantern slides. 



Frank M. Chapman and Louis Agassiz 

 FuEKTES : ' Bird Life in the Bahamas.' Illus- 

 trated with lantern slides. 



Wm. Dutcheb: ' Report of the Chairman of 

 the Committee on the Protection of North 

 American Birds.' 



T. S. Palmer: 'Federal Game Protection in 

 1902.' 



Jonathan Dwight, Jr. : ' Some Variations in 

 the Piping Plover.' {Mgialitis meloda.) 



Wm. H. Pishee : ' Nesting of the Eed-bellied 

 Woodpecker in Harford County, Maryland.' 



B. S. BowDiSH : ' Some Food Habits of West 

 Indian Birds.' 



WiTMER Stone : ' The Significance of Trino- 

 mials in Nomenclature.' 



Elon Howard Eaton : ' An Epidemic of Roup 

 in the Canandaigua Crow Roost.' 



The next annual meeting will be held 

 at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phil- 

 adelphia, commencing November 16, 1903. 

 John H. Sage, 



Secretary. 



A GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 

 RESEARCH.'' 



In the charter granted to the incorpora- 

 tors of the Institute of Technology forty- 

 one years ago, they and their successors 

 were made a body corporate for the pur- 

 pose of instituting a society of arts, a mu- 

 seum of arts, and a school of industrial 

 science. In addition the purpose and aim 

 of the corporation was then declared to 

 be to aid 'generally by suitable means the 

 advancement, development and practical 

 application of science in connection with 

 arts, agriculture, manufacture and com- 

 ■ merce. ' 



This intention to advance and to develop 

 the practical applications of science has 



* Extract from an announcement about to be 

 issued by the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



been steadily kept in view, and the corpo- 

 ration and faculty of the Institute have 

 striven constantly, in the four decades of 

 its history, to advance the quality of in- 

 struction and to enlarge the facilities for 

 laboratory practice. The curriculum of 

 studies offered to undergraduate students 

 of the Institute has graditally changed 

 with the growing demands of the indus- 

 trial life of the country. New engineer- 

 ing courses have differentiated themselves 

 fiom those originally established. At its 

 foundation the Institute offered but three 

 distinct courses for engineers — civil, me- 

 chanical and mining engineering. To-day 

 it offers, in addition to these, courses in 

 electrical engineering, chemical engineer- 

 ing, sanitary engineering and naval archi- 

 tecture ; and in several of these branches 

 applications of science are employed which 

 forty years ago were unknown. Thus 

 biology brings to the aid of the sanitary 

 engineer to-day a technical knowledge ab- 

 solutely essential in his profession which 

 was impossible forty years ago. 



The demands of modern civilization call 

 for engineers who can do more than keep 

 abreast of the theory and practice of their 

 profession. They must be able to solve 

 new problems and to advance the state of 

 the art in which their Avork lies. In ap- 

 plied science no less than in pure science 

 there is need for research and for the de- 

 velopment of the research spirit. Prob- 

 lems of immense practical importance are 

 pressing for immediate solittion. Such 

 questions as the cheapening of electric 

 power, the problem of long-distance trans- 

 mission, the purification of streams and 

 the sanitary engineering of great cities, 

 the numerous applications of chemical 

 engineering to the arts, furnish numerous 

 problems of investigation whose solution 

 affords at once the keenest intellectual ex- 

 ercise and the most practical and useful 

 results. The larger industrial and manu- 



