SCIENCE 



Feiday, March 11, 1910 



contents 



The Funotioiis of a University Laboratory: 

 Peofessob H. a. Bumstead 361 



The Carnegie Foundation and its Service Pen- 

 sions : Pkofessoe Joseph Jastbow 370 



An American Research Institution in Pales- 

 tine: David Faibchild 376 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington .... 377 



The Rockefeller Foundation 379 



Scientific Notes and News 379 



University and Educational News 383 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 The Length of. Service Pensions of the Car- 

 negie Foundation: Pbofbssob J. McI^en 

 Cattell 384 



Scientifio Books: — 

 Leach's Food Inspection and Analysis: Pko- 

 fessoe Wm. Fbeab 386 



Scientific Journals and Articles 389 



Recent Progress in Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy: Andbew H. Palmeb 390 



Concerning the Date of the Lamarck Manu- 

 script at Harvard: Peofessob iiASHFOED 

 Dean 394 



Special Articles: — 



The Interference of the Reflected Diffracted 

 and the Diffracted Reflected Rays of a Plane 

 Transparent Grating, and on an Inferom- 

 eter: Peofessob Cabl Babus and M. Babus. 

 The Effect of Asphyana on the Pupil: Des. 

 C. C. GuTHBiE, F. V. Utjthbie and A. H. 

 Ryan 394 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section D : G. W. Bissell 396 



The American Physiological Society: De. A. 

 J. Cablson 397 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Anthropological Society of Washing- 

 ton: I. M. Casanowicz. The American 

 Philosophical Society. New York Section 

 of the American Chemical Society: Db. C. 

 M. Joyce 399 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of SciBafCE, Garrison-oo- 

 Hudson. N. Y. 



TEE FUNCTIONS OF A UNIVERSITY 

 LABORATORY^ 



On an occasion like the present, when 

 we are gathered to congratulate this uni- 

 versity upon the addition which it has just 

 made to the existing equipment of the 

 world for the prosecution of scientific 

 studies, it seems appropriate, and it may 

 not be entirely superfluous, to spend a little 

 time in inquiry what it is that scientific 

 laboratories have done for mankind during 

 their comparatively brief past; to ask also 

 how we may make them still more service- 

 able in the years which are to come. 



It is not so very many years ago that a 

 speaker upon this subject might have 

 deemed it necessary to prove to his hearers 

 (if he could) that laboratories were of 

 service to the public and that they ought to 

 be established and maintained. I am very 

 glad that this is no longer necessary; that 

 I may assume with confidence your acqui- 

 escence in the belief that scientific studies 

 have been justified by their results. And 

 I am very glad also that these results, 

 great as they are, have, as yet, nothing like 

 finality about them. To say that the nat- 

 ural sciences are still very imperfect and 

 capable of vast improvements is only an- 

 other way of saying that they are alive. 

 Those of us who are devoted to their service 

 have especial reason for joy in the fact that 

 there is still so much to be done that we 

 see no prospect of this service becoming 

 unnecessary in our time or in that of our 

 successors for many generations. 



When one speaks of the beneficial results 



' Address on the occasion of the opening of the 

 Carnegie Science Building at Acadia University, 

 Wolfville, N. S., October 21, 1909. 



