SCIENCE 



Feidat, Maech 25, 1910 



CONTENTS 

 The Problem of the Assistant Professoi: II: 

 Peofessoe Guido H. Maex 441 



The Eleventh International Congress of Geol- 

 ogists 450 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 452 



Scientifio Notes and News 452 



University and Educational News 455 



Dismission and Correspondence: — 



The Directory of American Museums: Paul 

 M. Rea. a Queer Fish: Pbofessoe C. H. 



ElQENMANN 456 



Boientifio Books: — ■ 



Doflein's Lehrhuch der Protozoenkunde : 

 Peofessoe Charles A. Kdfoid. Allen's 

 Commercial Organic Analysis: Peofessoe 

 W. A. Notes 456 



Scientific Journals and Articles 459 



Halley on the Age of the Ocean: Ds. Geokge 

 F. Beckee 459 



The Completion of the Catalogue of the Wash- 

 ington Zones: Db. W. S. Eichelbeeqee .. 461 



The American Society of Zoologists: De. Her- 

 bert W. Rand 462 



The Association of Official Seed Analysts: E. 

 Bbown 477 



Societies and Academies: — • 



The Third Annual Meeting of the Illinois 

 State Academy of Science: Dr. A. R. Ceook. 

 The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole. The Biological So- 

 ciety of Washington: D. E. Lantz. The 

 Chemical Society of Washington : J. A. 

 LeClerc 477 



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 Hudson, N. Y. . 



THE PROBLEM OF TEE ASSISTANT 

 PROFESSOR* II 



We now pass to the second division of 

 our subject, which, because of its somewhat 

 broader aspects, requires a slightly differ- 

 ent mode of presentation. 



Questions 18, 19 and 20 were prepared 

 with a view to elicit information upon the 

 extent of academic freedom and of partici- 

 pation in the solution of university prob- 

 lems, enjoyed by assistant professors. 



Says President Eliot in his most valu- 

 able and suggestive "Univereity Admin- 

 istration ' ' : 



For determining the educational policy of a 

 seat of learning, the faculties are the most impor- 

 tant bodies in the entire institution. ... It 

 devolves upon the faculties ... to discern, recom- 

 mend and carry out the educational policies of the 

 institution. . . . Membership in a faculty should 

 therefore be limited to professors, associate pro- 

 fessors and assistant professors, and to those 

 instructors who have received appointments with- 

 out limit of time. ... It is of the utmost impor- 

 tance that every faculty contain enough young 

 men to bring forward in debate the views and 

 feelings of the recent college generation. To have 

 its administration fall chiefly into the hands of 

 elderly men is a grave misfortune for any insti- 

 tution. There is always good work that veterans 

 who retain their physical and mental alertness 

 can do; but the control of a university's policy 

 should not be confided to them alone. . . . By the 

 vitality, inventiveness and enterprise of its fac- 

 ulty, it is safe to judge any institution of learning. 



President Hyde, in his refreshing paper 

 on "Personality and College Prof essors, "° 

 adds to this: 



* A paper prepared for the eleventh annual 

 conference of the Association of American Uni- 

 versities, on behalf of Leland Stanford Junior 

 University, by Professor Guido Hugo Marx and 

 presented by Professor Charles H. Huberich. 



"The Outlook, August 21, 1909, pp. 931-7. 



