June 10, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



903 



man of his time. He discovered and wrote 

 the history of the human body during the first 

 and second months of conception, and thus 

 filled in what, until his time, was almost a 

 blank. He introduced more accurate methods 

 of studying the form and relationships of the 

 various organs of the body. Pupils went to 

 him from all parts of the earth and carried 

 back to their native universities the quiet, 

 honest spirit of investigation, the complete 

 methods and the accurate technique His had 

 introduced in his laboratory at Leipzig. His 

 influence to-day is world-wide; it is especially 

 evident in the remarkable progress in embry- 

 ologieal research made recently in the United 

 States. As His entered to lecture one was 

 struck by the absence of those bodily features 

 one expects in a German professor. He was 

 a Swiss by birth and education, having been 

 born at Basel in 1831 ; in appearance he might 

 have been an Englishman. His narrow, long- 

 ish head, black hair, regular profile, long sal- 

 low face, and nervous temperament indicated 

 his descent from a Celtic stock. He taught 

 quietly, clearly and concisely, illustrating his 

 subject as he spoke by marvelous drawing on 

 the blackboard. He relegated lady-students 

 to the back-bench. Long after the university 

 doors were shut, a light could be seen in the 

 window of his private room, for to him work 

 was also amusement. 



The Cumberland Gap coal field of Kentuclcy 

 and Tennessee is growing steadily in impor- 

 tance, although most of this area, which forms 

 part of the eastern edge of the Appalachian 

 coal field in southeastern Kentucky and north- 

 ern Tennessee, is now without transportation 

 facilities. The production of coal from the 

 vicinity of Middlesboro has reached an annual 

 output of from 600,000 to 1,000,000 tons. 

 Bennett Fork has become a mining town for 

 a continuous distance of five miles, and Stony 

 Pork, up which a railroad is just completed, 

 promises soon to become equally active. These 

 and other evidences of rapid development, to- 

 gether with the fact that no government report 

 has ever before been published about Cumber- 

 land Gap coals, give especial interest and 

 value to a paper written by Mr. George H. 

 Ashley about this field. This paper is in- 



cluded in a bulletin (No. 225) entitled ' Con- 

 tributions to Economic Geology, 1903,' re- 

 cently published by the TJ. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey for gratuitous distribution. Mr. Ashley's 

 paper is merely a preliminary abstract of a 

 more detailed report, which will be prepared 

 under a cooperative arrangement made be- 

 tween the U. S. Geological Survey and the 

 state of Kentucky. This report will fill sev- 

 eral hundred pages and will be fully illustrated 

 with appropriate plates, coal sections and 

 maps. 



The Journal of Philosophy summarizes the 

 program for the season of 1904 of the Glen- 

 more Summer School of the Culture Sciences, 

 founded in 1889 by Thomas Davidson. The 

 session will begin on July 11 and extend to 

 September 3. Lectures are announced for 

 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 

 at 11 A.M., and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. There 

 will be informal discussions relative to the 

 subjects of the lectures of each week on Wed- 

 nesday evenings. The following lectures are 

 announced: weeks beginning July 11 and 18, 

 Charles W. Bakewell, Ph.D., of the University 

 of California, on ' The Philosophy of Plato ' ; 

 week beginning July 25, Leslie Willis 

 Sprague, lecturer for American University 

 Extension Society, Philadelphia, on ' Ealph 

 Waldo Emerson ' ; week beginning August 

 1, Charles G. Child, Ph.D., L.H.D., of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, on ' The 

 Making of English Literature ' ; week be- 

 ginning August 8, Hon. Chester Hol- 

 combe, A.M., Ex-Minister to China, Lowell 

 Institute Lecturer, 1902, on ' The Religion 

 and Literature of China ' ; week beginning 

 August 15, Felix Adler, Ph.D., of Columbia 

 University, on ' The General Theory of Social 

 Ethics,' and Edward G. Spaulding, Ph.D., of 

 the College of the City of ISTew York, on 

 ' Dogmas in Philosophy and Science ' ; week 

 beginning August 22, Alvin S. Johnson, 

 Ph.D., of Columbia University, on ' Some 

 Aspects of the Labor Question ' ; week begin- 

 ning August 29, J. Mark Baldwin, Ph.D., 

 LL.D., of Johns Hopkins University, on 

 ' Social Psychology.' There is a possibility 

 that a few additional lectures may -be given 

 during the summer by Professor W. T. 



