SCIENCE 



Friday, March 4, 1910 



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CONTENTS 



The Botanical Society of America: — 



Some Reflections upon Botanical Education 



in America: Pkofessoe W. F. Ganong . . . 321 



Presentation of the Langley Medal to the 

 Wright Brothers: De. Aiexandee Geaham 

 Bell 334 



Memorial to the late Morris K. Jesup: De. 

 Henet Faiefield Osboen 337 



The Fourth Annual Report of the Carnegie 

 Foundation 339 



Scientific Notes and Neios 340 



and Educational News 344 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Substitute for Cross Wires in the Spec- 

 troscope: C. M. Claek. Note on some 

 Peniisylvajiiia Fishes: Heney W. Fowlee . 344 



Scientific Books: — 



Die Geographische Verireitung der Schmet- 

 terlinge: De. W. J. Holland 346 



Quotations : — 



The Length of Service Pensions of the 

 Carnegie Foundation 348 



Special Articles: — 



Dipylidium caninum in an American Child: 

 Dr. Wm. a. Eiley 349 



Anthropology at the Boston Meeting: De. 

 Geoege Geant MacCubdt 350 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Indiana Academy of Science: J. H. 

 Ransom. The Kansas Academy of Science : 

 J. T. LovEWELL. The Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences: Wallace W. Atwood. The Bio- 

 logical Society of Washington: D. E. 

 Lantz. The Botanical Society of Wash- 

 ington: W. W. Stockbekgee. The Anthro- 

 pological Society of Washington: I. M. 

 Casanowicz 355 



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

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

 Hudson. N. Y. 



SOME REFLECTIONS UPON BOTANICAL 

 EDUCATION IN AMERICA' 



In the address with which he welcomed 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science to Columbia University 

 three years ago, President Butler centered 

 his remarks on a matter of the first scien- 

 tific and educational importance. He said, 

 in efi'ect, that for a quarter century he had 

 been a close and friendly observer of the 

 progress of the sciences in education, that 

 during this time he had seen them win 

 almost complete recognition and oppor- 

 tunity, but that he was obliged to confess 

 to some disappointment at the results. He 

 was not referring to the sciences in tech- 

 nical education, for in this field their status 

 is satisfactory, but to their position in gen- 

 eral or cultural education. He did not 

 presume, he said, to suggest either an ex- 

 planation or a remedy, but he submitted 

 the matter to the consideration of his expert 

 audience. These words of this eminent 

 educational observer touched an answering 

 chord in my own thoughts, and since that 

 time I have found, by inquiry among my 

 colleagues, that he voiced a feeling quite 

 general among scientific men themselves. 

 It seems, therefore, to be a fact that the 

 sciences, although dealing in knowledge of 

 matters of the greatest immediate interest, 

 and although concerned with the most ele- 

 mental of all trainings— that in the cor- 

 related use of hand, eye and mind— are still 

 of mediocre efficiency as factors in general 

 education. I propose now to discuss briefly 

 the reasons I have been able to find for this 



^Address of the retiring president of the Botan- 

 ical Society of America, delivered at Boston, 

 December 28, 1909. 



