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, June 3, 1904. 



CONTENTS: 



Research in State Universities: Pbofessok 

 Israel C. Russell 841 



Scientific Books: — 



Ostivald's Grundlinien der anorganischen 

 Chemie : Professor Louis Kahlenbeeg . . 854 



Societies and Academies: — 



The San Francisco Section of the American 

 Mathematical Society: Professor G. A. 

 Miller. Minnesota Academy of Sciences: 

 Dr. H. Gale. The Geological Society of 

 ^Yashington: Alfred H. Brooks. The 

 Biological Society of Washington: Wilfred 

 H. Osgood. The Cornell Section of the 

 American Chemical Society: William C. 

 Geer. Section of Geology and Mineralogy 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences: Dr. 

 Edmund Otis Hovey 855 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Metric System: Professor Arthur 

 Gordon Webster. Zoology and the Inter- 

 national Catalogue of Scientific Literature: 

 Dk. T. Wayland Vaughan. Non-educa- 

 tion of the Young hy Parents: Dr. Theo. 

 Gill. Price of the Reports of the Harri- 

 man Expedition : Professor Israel C. Rus- 

 SEL 860 



Special Articles: — 

 An Enemy of the Cotton Boll Weevil: 0. F. 

 Cook. Zygospore Formation a Sexual 

 Process: Albert Francis Blakeslee. On 

 the Development of Palisade Tissue and 

 Resinous Deposits in Leaves: Edgar N. 

 Transeau. Albino Brook Trout: C. R. 

 Pettis 862 



Botanical Notes: — 



Weeds used in Medicinej The Date Palm 

 in America; Woody Plants in Winter; Dr. 

 Augustin Gattinger, Botanist: Professor 

 Charles E. Bessey 868 



Scientific Notes and News 869 



University and Educational News 871 



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

 for review should be sent to the Elitor of Science, Garri- 

 soa-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



RESEARCH IN STATE UNIVERSITIES* 



The word research, as used by scientific 

 men, signifies study systematically carried 

 on for the purpose of discovering that 

 which is unknown. It is the seeking for 

 new facts, new forces, new laws and new 

 ideas without direct reference to their 

 utility. 



The word re-search has been chosen to 

 express this high aim, rather than the same 

 root without the prefix, because in most 

 instances explorations have to be repeated, 

 experiments performed again and again, 

 and the advances made in any direction 

 scrutinized from many points of view be- 

 fore the conclusions reached are deemed 

 worthy of acceptance. 



The field of research is not restricted to 

 the laboratory or the library, but is as wide 

 as the universe. It includes the study of 

 man as well as his environment. It is es- 

 sential alike to the growth of industries and 

 the development of philosophies. 



Research, then, is the painstaking en- 

 deavor to increase the world's store of 

 knowledge in any department of human 

 thought. 



The Scope of Besearch.—One of the most 

 important results of the modern develop- 

 ment of industries is the recognition of the 

 fact that discovery is the mainspring of 

 progress. This conclusion, although self- 

 evident, does not seem to have received the 

 recognition it deserves. The creed which 

 needs to be repeated over and over again 

 in the hearing of every intelligent human 



* Read before the Resea'rch Club of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, January 20, 1904. 



