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 



Friday, July 12, 1907 



CONTENTS 



The American Type of University: Dk. An- 

 drew S. Draper 33 



Scientific Books : — - 



Kraemer's Text-look of Botany and Phar- 

 macognosy: Professor H. H. IltrsBY. The 

 Cambridge Natural History ; G. N. C 43 



Scientific Journals and Articles 45 



Societies and Academies: — 



The St. Louis Chemical Society: Dr. C. J. 



BORGMEYER ' 46 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Dr. Eastman's Recent Papers on the Kin- 

 ship of the Arthrodires: Professor Bash- 

 ford Dean. Evolution Theories — Static, 

 Determinant, Kinetic: Dr. O. F. Cook ... 46 



Special Articles : — 

 Ionization in Closed Vessels: W. W. Strong. 

 Laboratory Apparatus for Measurement of 

 the Force on a Current-carrying Conductor 

 living in a Magnetic Field: Professor R. A. 

 Porter 52 



Quotations : — 



The New England College l6 



Notes OH Organic Chemistry : — 



Anhydrous Sulphocyanic Acid: Professor 

 J. Bishop Tingle 56 



Oeologic Work on the Coastal Plain 57 



■Cinder Cone National Monument 58 



A.n International Commission on Sleeping 

 Sickness 58 



The International Association of Academies . 59 



Address on the Occasion of the Dedication of 

 the Linncean Bridge 59 



Scientific Notes and News 60 



University and Educational News 64 



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

 jreview should be sent to tbe Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson. N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN TYPE OF UNIVERSITT'^ 



Mr. Chancelor, and Ladies and Gentlemen, 

 and, more particularly, you young men 

 and women of the Class of 1907: 

 There is no more fascinating, indeed no 

 more exhilarating, spectacle than a com- 

 mencement scene in an American univer- 

 sity, on a clear and bracing morning in the 

 rosy month of Jime. 



It is not only the hour when an eager 

 and ambitious class— justly proud of sub- 

 stantial intellectual accomplishments, with 

 the proper confidence which comes of very 

 considerable intellectual discipline, truly 

 courageous and sanely idealistic through 

 miTch contact with the very best in human 

 life— receives the standard stamp of ap- 

 probation and commendation which the 

 best scholarship can give ; but it is also the 

 hour when the university comes out into 

 the open and presents to the activities of 

 actual life the finest new energies which it 

 can generate and train. 



There are universities— and many of 

 them— in other countries which never have 

 commencements. They give credits for 

 work done, and when one has enough cred- 

 its he exchanges them for a degree. I say 

 lie because the women have little or noth- 

 ing to do with it. The whole thing is as 

 guiltless of ideality, of imagination, of in- 

 centive, of spirit in any form, as the build- 

 ing of a canal-boat or the buying of a pair 

 of shoes. There are universities in this 

 country which have inherited so much from 

 ' Commencement address at Syracuse University, 

 June 12, 1907. 



