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, Novbmbeb 22, 1907 



CONTENTS 



Inaugural Addresses in the University of 

 Illinois : — 

 Relation of Chemistry to Agriculture: 



PRorESSOB H. A. Webbee 689 



Relation of Chemistry to the Industries: 



Db. William McMdeteie 694 



Chemical Research in American Universi- 

 ties : Pbofessor Julius Stieglitz 699 



Teaching of Chemistry in State Universi- 

 ties: Peofessob Geoege B. Feankfoetee 703 

 The Contribution of Chemistry to Modem 

 Life: Pbofessoe W. A. Notes 706 



Scientific Books: — 



Wiley on Foods and their Adulterations. 

 Galloway's First Course in Zoology: 

 S. J. H 714 



Scientific Journals and Articles 716 



Societies and Academies : — 



The American Physical Society: Peofessob 

 Eenest Meebitt. The Northeastern Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society: 

 Pbofessoe Fbank H. Thobp 717 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Effective Surface Temperature of the 

 Sun and the Absolute Temperature of 

 Space: Db. J. M. Schaebeble. Article 30 

 of the International Code of Zoological 

 Nomenclature: Db. J. A. Allen 718 



Special Articles: — 



Two Interesting Apple Fungi: Pbofessoe 



F. L. Stevens 724 



Tlie American Society of Naturalists: Peo- 

 fessob Edwaed L. Thoendike 725 



Scientific Notes and News 725 



University and Educational News 728 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



RELATION OP CHEMISTRY TO 

 AGRICULTURE^ 



The subject assigned the writer on the 

 program of exercises in honor of Dr. W. 

 A. Noyes, who was recently appointed head 

 of the department of chemistry and di- 

 rector of the laboratory at the University 

 of Illinois, is "The Relation of Chemistry 

 to Agriculture." 



The friends of the university, who are 

 present here on this auspicious occasion, 

 will, as a matter of course, not expect any- 

 thing new or startling in a paper of this 

 kind. The application of chemistry to the 

 art of agriculture is characterized by the 

 same results which are manifest in many 

 of the leading industries of the world after 

 this fundamental science had thrown new 

 light upon the processes involved. One 

 general and most important result in this 

 connection has been the establishment of 

 rationalism in the place of empiricism. 



It is true that in some of the methods 

 employed in agriculture empiricism has 

 been in advance of science. The beneficial 

 effects of barn-yard manure upon crops 

 was well established in the minds of farm- 

 ers before chemistry had pointed out that 

 carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phos- 

 phorus, sulphur, potassium, calcium, mag- 

 nesium and iron were essential to vegetable 



' This and the following addresses by William 

 McMurtrie, Julius Stieglitz, George B. Frank- 

 forter and William A. Noyes were delivered at 

 the inaugural exercises of Professor Noyes as 

 head of the eliemical department and director of 

 the chemical laboratory of the University of Illi- 

 nois, on October 18, 1907. 



