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, Septembee 20, 1907 



CONTENTS 



The American College for Germany: Pro- 

 fessor Hugo Munsterbekg 361 



The American College: Professor J. McKeen 

 Cattell 368 



Scientific Books: — 



Bernard on the Poritid Corals: Dr. T. 

 Wayland Vaughan 373 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The First Species Rule, an Objection: S. S. 

 BucKMAN. Holothurian Names: W. K. 

 Fisher 378 



Special Articles: — • 



The Occurrence of Middle Tertiary Mam- 

 mal-'bearing Beds in Northwestern Nevada: 

 Professor John C. Merriam. Physio- 

 graphic Changes bearing on the Faunal 

 Relationships of the Russian and Sacra- 

 mento Rivers, California: Professor Ru- 

 uff S. Holway. Fowler's Toad: H. A. 

 Alt.ard. Preliminary Note on a New Dis- 

 ease of tlie Cultivated Vetch: Professor 

 Geo. F. Atkinson and 0. W. Edgerton 380 

 Marine Biological Association of San Diego 386 



Newspaper Science 388 



Reorganization of the Journal of Morphology 389 



Scientific Notes and News 389 



University and Educational News 391 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Soiehck, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN COLLEGE FOR GERMANY^ 

 It seems so natural and so delightful to 



listen on such festival days of college joy 



and of college pride to the voices of men 

 ^Address at the celebration of the seventy-fifth 



anniversary of the founding of Lafayette College. 



whose memories are intertwined with the 

 noble traditions of the celebrating college. 

 Those who passed the happy days of 

 inner growth from the immaturity of school 

 work to the maturity of life work on the 

 lovely campus of Lafayette are the welcome 

 speakers, indeed, at this symposium on 

 college ideals, and their words, filled with 

 gratitude, transform this huge assembly 

 into a mighty family circle. But harsh and 

 disturbing seems in such hours of intimacy 

 the word of an outsider who never before 

 enjoyed the charm and the inspiration of 

 this place. If you are yet generous enough 

 to invite the stranger's intrusion into your 

 assembly of alumni ; yes, if you kindly wel- 

 come the messenger of the Harvard faculty, 

 your motive, it seems, can be only one : on 

 such a day of historic retrospection Lafay- 

 ette College desires to acknowledge the 

 unity of the country 's growth and academic 

 development, desires to remember, vener- 

 able to-day herself, those places of learning 

 which were venerable when she began her 

 successful career, and therefore looks back 

 in friendly fellowship to the oldest uni- 

 versity of the land. Simple arithmetic 

 leads us quickly back to those ancient days. 

 It was seventy-five years ago that Lafayette 

 College was born; if we double the figure, 

 exactly 150 years ago, in 1757, the gallant 

 Frenchman was born for whom this college 

 was named; and if we double that figure, 

 exactly 300 years ago, in 1607, was born the 

 pious Englishman who founded the first 

 American college, John Harvard. What a 

 glorious national development in the life- 



