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. 



Feiday, July 7, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



Desirable Product from the Teacher of Mathe- 

 matics — the Point of View of an Engineer- 

 ing Teacher: Peofessoe Dugald C. Jackson 1 



Theories of Metabolism: Peofessoe Geaham 

 LusK 6 



Scientific Books: — 



Rothschild on Anthropoid Apes: De. 

 Aethuk Eewin Beown 12 



Scientific Journals and Articles : — 1 4 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Botanical Society of Washington: De. 

 Heebeet J. Webbee. The Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Washington: Chaeles K. Wead. 

 The Neio York Academy of Sciences, Section 

 of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry : Peo- 

 fessoe C. C. Teowbbidge 14 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Higher and Loioer: F. A. L. A Denial: 

 De. Hubebt Ltman Claek 18 



Special Articles: — 



The Fishes of Panama: Peofessoe C. H. 

 Eigenmann. The Number of Young of 

 the Red Bat : Heney L. Waed 18 



Botanical Notes: — 



Plant Cell Studies; Leaf Intumescences; 

 The California Poppies; The Smut-fungi of 

 North America: Peofessoe Chaeles E. 

 Bessey 21 



Archeological Notes: — 



Ichthyological Names; Prehistoric Darioin- 

 ians; Names of the Gorilla and Orang- 

 Outan : De. C. R. Eastman 23 



Work of the Department of Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism of the Carnegie Institution: De. L. 

 A. Bauee 25 



President Roosevelt on the Rewards of 

 Scholarship 27 



Mr. Rockefeller's Endoioment for Higher 

 Education 28 



Honorary Degrees at Harvard University .... 29 



Scientific Notes and News 29 



University and Educational News 32 



MSS. iuteiided for publicatiou aud books, etc., intended 

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

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



DESIRABLE PRODUCT FROM THE TEACHER 



OF MATHEMATICS— THE POINT OF 



VIEW OF AN ENGINEERING 



TEACHER."- 



The school curriculum of to-day lies un- 

 der the charge, vigorously pressed at the 

 hands of many, of leaning to fads and 

 being given over to poor teaching. The 

 teaching of only two subjects seems to be 

 excepted from the general charge of incom- 

 petency that is often made— namely, Latin 

 and mathematics— and I have sometimes re- 

 flected upon the meaning and propriety of 

 the exceptions. Returning to these reflec- 

 tions when your courteous secretary in- 

 vited me to address you, I determined to 

 lead you over some of this ground— old and 

 often trod ground you may say— but never- 

 theless it is ground well worthy of survey- 

 ing again and even again. 



I think the charge of fads grows partly 

 or wholly out of the character of work 

 done in the kindergartens — under which 

 name numerous sins are often cloaked by 

 well meaning, accomplished, but higjily im- 

 practical, and often incompetent, teachers. 

 I am an earnest believer in the purposes 

 of the kindergarten, but the practical re- 

 sults of its operation, where I have ob- 

 served it, seem often to disseminate faulty 

 methods of observation, poor workmanship 

 in handicrafts and inaccuracy in thought. 

 It is suggested that the pure kindergarten 

 methods have their most important place 

 in connection with the schools of social set- 



^An address delivered before the general ses- 

 sion of the Central Association of Science and 

 Mathematics Teachers, November 25, 1904. 



