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, August 9, 1907 



CONTENTS 



Are we an Inventive People in the Field of 

 Education? De. Elmeb Ellsworth Brown 161 



Scientific Books: — 

 Danneel's Electrochemistry : Professoe Ar- 

 thur B. Lamb. Scripture's Researches in 

 Experimental Phonetics: Dr. Frederic Ly- 

 man Wells 170 



Scientific Journals and Articles 171 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine: Dr. Wm. J. GiES. The Torrey 

 Botanical Glub : Dr. C. Stuart Gagee. 

 Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences : Dr. Alexis 



A. JULIEN 172 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Administration of the Ohio University : 

 Db. Charles W. Super 178 



Special Articles: — - 

 Improvements on the Ultra-violet Micro- 

 scope: Walter T. Swingle and Lyman J. 

 Bbiggs. The Relationship of Phyllosticta 

 Solitaria to the Fruit Blotch of Apples: 

 John L. Sheujon. Holothurian Names: 

 Dr. Theo. Giii 180 



Current Notes on Meteorology a/nd Climatol- 

 ogy :— 



Monthly Weather Review; Coast Meteor- 

 ological Stations of Chile; Upper Air Cur- 

 rents over the Polar Sea; Humidity Charts 

 of the United States; Change of Climate in 

 Damaralandf Snow Garlands; Note: Pro- 

 fessor R. DeC. Ward 186 



Scientific Notes and News 188 



University and Educational News 191 



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 rOTiew should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



ARE WE AN INVENTIVE PEOPLE IN THE 

 FIELD OF EDUCATION?^ 



Every invention, I suppose, is made up 

 of individual and social elements, and com- 

 bines them in a way different from that of 

 every other invention. There is no more 

 interesting department of literary criti- 

 cism, or esthetic criticism generally, than 

 that which seeks to trace out the respective 

 contributions of the race and the individual 

 in any work of art. This is illustrated in a 

 recent discussion of the distinction between 

 the folk-epic and the art-epic,- the charac- 

 teristic difference, for example, between the 

 ' Iliad ' and ' Paradise Lost. ' Some Homer, 

 in the one instance, whatever his name, 

 gave the final form to a poetic tale that 

 must have been shaping itself in the tradi- 

 tions of his people for many generations. 

 In the other instance, in which we may 

 distinguish the poem from the contempo- 

 rary materials out of which it was con- 

 structed, the work of the poet looms large, 

 and the work of the people back of him is 

 obscured by his personal fame. Yet, when 

 we analyze even Milton 's art, with all of its 

 manifestation of a fearless and independ- 

 ent personality, we find it related in the 

 subtlest ways with the literary tradition 

 of his time. 



So it is in the history of mechanical in- 

 vention. We have seen recently a running 

 discussion of the origin of the electric trol- 



'An address before the chapter of Phi Beta 

 Kappa, at Vassar College, June 10, 1907. 



^ By Professor C. B. Bradley, The University 

 of California Chronicle, June, 1906. 



