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 



Feidat, July 26, 1907 



CONTENTS 



The Geographical Distribution of the Student 

 Body at a Number of Universities and Col- 

 leges: PEOFESSOE EtIDOLF ToMBO, Je 97 



The Relations of the Engineering Schools to 

 Polytechnic Industrial Education: Peo- 

 FESSOE DUGAUJ C. Jackson 104 



Soientific Books: — 

 Lewis's Stohr's Histology arranged upon an 

 Embryologioal Basis: W. S. M Ill 



Scientific Journals and Articles 113 



Societies and Academies: — 



American Society of Biological Chemists: 

 De. WiiilAM J. GiES. The Biological So- 

 ciety of Washington: M. C. Maesh 113 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Dr. Montgomery's Proposed Amendment to 

 the Rules of Nomenclature: De. William 

 H. Dall. The Rules of Nomenclature: 

 Aethtje Eewin Beown. The Distances of 

 the Fixed Stars: Peofessob J. M. Schae- 



BEELE 117 



Special Articles: — 

 Hens that have laid Two Eggs in a Day: 

 Pbofessor Gilman a. Deew. On the Origin 

 of Limestone Sink-holes: Peofessoe A. H. 



PUEDUE 119 



Quotations : — 

 The Future of the Tropics 122 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol 

 ogy : — • 



Royal Meteorological Society's Lectures _ 

 Africa and the White Man; Indian Meteor- 

 ologicaT Memoirs; Rainfall of Northern 

 Germany; Maryland Weather Service, 

 Rain-making again; Moon and Clouds; 

 Climate of Victoria, B. C; Sonnblick 

 Verein; Notes: Peofessoe K. DeC. Waed 122 



Scientific Notes and News 124 



University and Educational News 128 



MSS. intended for puWicatlon and boots, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to the Editor of Scienck, GarriBon-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 



THE STUDENT BODY AT A NUMBER 



OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 



The aeeompanying table explains the 

 geographical distribution of the student 

 body of twelve American universities and 

 four New England colleges and one Penn- 

 sylvania college for the academic year 

 1906-7, the summer session students being 

 in every instance omitted. Brown, Ohio 

 State and Virginia have been added to the 

 table, while the Lafayette figures are 

 omitted this year. The University of Cali- 

 fornia figures include only the students in 

 the academic colleges and are exclusive of 

 the 174 students in the professional schools 

 in San Francisco. In making comparisons 

 with 1905-6, it should also be noted that 

 the California figures in last year's table 

 were those of 1904-5. 



Comparing the attendance by divisions 

 of the six eastern universities {Columbia, 

 Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Prince- 

 ton, Yale) with the corresponding figures 

 for the same universities included in a 

 similar table published in Science, N. S., 

 Vol. XXIV., No. 606 (August 10, 1906), 

 pp. 166-173, we note in the first place that 

 there has been a gain for these universities, 

 taken as a whole, in every division, the 

 largest increase in the actual number of 

 students, leaving the North Atlantic divi- 

 sion—in which all of these six universities 

 are located— out of consideration, having 

 been recorded in the North Central division, 

 where there has been an increase of 117 

 students, followed by foreign countries 



