SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR TSflB ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



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

 Astronomy ; T. C Mendenhall, Physios ; K. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Iea Remsbn, Chemistry ; 

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

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

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

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

 Pathology ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, December 26, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 



The Scientific Aspect of Modern Medicine: 

 Professor Frederic S. Lee 1001 



Histories and Bibliographies of Physios: 

 Peofessob C. R. Mann 1016 



University Registration Statistics: Rudolph 

 TOMBO, Jk 1021 



NeiD Departures in the Bibliographical Work 

 of the Concilium Biiliographicum 1023 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science. The Geological Society 

 of Washington: Alfred H. Brooks. Nortli 

 Eastern Section of the American Chemical 

 Society: Arthur M. Comet. The Neic Eng- 

 land Association of Chemistry Teachers. 

 Columbia University Geological Journal 

 Club: H. W. Shimbr. Boston Society of 

 Natural History: Glover M. Allen 1027 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Stratigraphic Position of the Judith 

 River Beds : T. W. Stanton. The Prickles 

 of Xanthoxylum: Alfred Rehder. Natural 

 History in England: Professor E. B. 

 Titchener. , Tree Trunks found with 

 Mastodon Remains : Reginald Gordon. The 

 Carnegie Institution: A. L. Heereea 1031 



Shorter Articles: — 



The First Use of Mammals and Mwmmal- 

 ians: Dr. Theo. Gill. The Starting Point 

 for Generic Nomenclature in Botany: C. L. 

 Shear. Mosquito Development and Hiber- 

 nation: J. W. DupREE, H. A. Morgan. 1034 



The Convocation of Scientific Societies 1038 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 1038 



University and Educational News 1040 



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

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

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



THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECT OF MODERN 

 MEDICINE.* 



The origin and development of medical 

 science are contemporaneous with tlie 

 origin and development of mankind. So 

 long as man has been, so long has been 

 disease; and whenever man has suffered, 

 man has tried to heal. The foundations 

 of medicine lie deep in that soil of common 

 knowledge from which arose all the sci- 

 ences, and throughout its history it has 

 freely absorbed the discoveries of them all. 

 From the first it has been, and it must ever 

 remain, their common meeting-place. In 

 proportion as its spirit and its methods 

 have been scientific it has progressed 

 toward ultimate perfection. Yet, notwith- 

 standing the importance of science to medi- 

 cine, from first to last medicine has been 

 permeated by the pernicious influence of 

 empiricism. A wise man once said that all 

 true science begins with empiricism, and 

 medical science is a striking example of 

 this fact. But it made an early effort to 

 free itself. The most brilliant epoch of 

 Grecian history is marked no more im- 

 mortally by the wisdom of Socrates, the 

 histories of Herodotus, the tragedies of 

 iEsehylus, and the art of Phidias, than 

 by the medicine of Hippocrates and his 

 followers, for this represents the first re- 



* An address delivered before the School of 

 Medicine at the quarto-centennial celebration of 

 the University of Colorado, November 14, 1902. 



