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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, December 20, 1907 



CONTENTS 



state Responsibility in University Education : 

 Professor F. F. Wesbeook 849 



Scientific Books: — 



The Scientific Results of the Ziegler Polar 

 Expedition: H. W. FiSK. Osborne on the 

 Proteins of the Wheat Kernel: Professor 

 Hakey Snydee 864 



Scientific Journals and Articles 866 



Societies and Academies: — ■ 



The Convocation Week Meetings of Scien- 

 tific Societies. The Philosophical Society 

 of Washington: R. L. Faris. The Biolog- 

 ical Society of Washington: De. M. C. 

 Marsh. The Anthropological Society of 

 Washington: Dr. Walter Hough. Section 

 of Biology of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences: Roy W. Minor. The Torrey 

 Botanical Club: Winifred J. Robinson. 

 The Science Club of Wellesley College: 

 Mary Holusteh. The Elisha Mitchell 

 Scientific Society: Professor Alvin S. 

 Wheeler 866 



Discussion, and Correspondence: — 



Lodge's Ether and Huyghens's Gravitation: 

 Professor Carl Barus. Metagenesis in 

 Insects: Professor Vernon L. Kellogg. 

 Botanical Text-books: Professor W. J. 

 Beal 875 



Special Articles : — 



The Probable Origin and Physical Struc- 

 ture of our Sidereal and Solar Systems: 

 Dr. J. M. Schaeberle. A Noiseless Room 

 for Sound Experiments: Professor S. I. 

 Franz 877 



The Section of Paleozoology of the Seventh 

 International Zoological Congress: Pro- 

 fessor A. W. Geabau 881 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. 

 Section K — Physiology and Experimental 

 Medicine — American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. Biological Section, 

 of the American Chemical Society : Dr. Wm. 

 J. Gibs 883 



Organization of an American Society of 

 Agronomy 884 



Subscriptions for the Lamarck Memorial .... 885 



Scientific Notes and News 885 



University and Educational News 888 



STATE RESPONSIBILITY IN UNIVERSITY 

 EDUCATION * 



It is not without trepidation that a son 

 of alma mater appears before you to-day 

 to speak upon a subject whose complicated 

 relations will be apparent to the most 

 casual observer. Even the evidence of ma- 

 ternal interest expressed by the invitation 

 to return to the bosom of the family for a 

 brief visit fails to give assurance in the 

 face of a memory calculated to inspire awe 

 rather than loving remembrance because 

 in the eighties the "propitious mother" re- 

 stricted her family responsibilities to a 

 periodical and very formal enquiry into the 

 limitations of the student's knowledge. 

 Each of us was left to acquire his suste- 

 nance at the breast of a foster mother— the 

 college— for whom love was developed by 

 individual memories not to be expected 

 from the impersonal relations borne to an 

 unnatural, but none the less real and dis- 

 ciplinary, parent. Our university bore us 

 her children, but did not mother or rear us. 



Familiarity with the early history of the 

 province and university, a practical knowl- 

 edge of the workings of the English and 

 German universities and a somewhat 

 lengthy experience in diif erent capacities in 

 an American state university, whilst afford- 

 ing a basis for comparison of view points, 

 methods and educational results, may not, 

 it is true, qualify one to draw deductions 

 as to the responsibilities of the state in 

 university education. The citizens of all 



* The second annual opening address delivered 

 by invitation of the faculty of science of the Uni- 

 versity of Manitoba, at Winnipeg, October 25, 1907. 



