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, August 11, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 

 Biology and Mathematics : Professor George 

 Bruce Halsted 161 



The Achnission of Students to College by Cer- 

 tificate: President George E. MacLean.. 167 



Scientific Books: — 



Ames's Text-book of General Physics: Pro- 

 fessor W. Le Conte Stevens. Aldrich's 

 Catalogue of North American Diptera: 

 Charles T. Brues 175 



Scientific Journals and Articles 177 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Needs of Scientific Men : T. D. A. CocK- 

 erell. The Editorship of the Engineering 

 and Mining Journal: R. T. H 178 



Special Articles: — 



A Footnote to the Ancestral History of the 

 Vertebrate Brain: Professor William A. 

 LocY. The Importance of Investigations of 

 Seedling Stages: J. A. Harris 180 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Cyclonic and Anticy clonic Temperatures j 

 Meteorology at Colorado College; Neolithic 

 Dew-Ponds ; Pilot Charts of North Atlantic 

 and North Pacific Oceans; Suicide and the 

 Weather: Professor R. DeC. Ward 186 



Recent Vertebrate Paleontology : H. F. 188 



Scientific Notes and Neics 189 



University and Educational Neivs 191 



MSS. inteudedfor publicatiou aud books, etc., intended 

 for review should be sent to the Editor of Science, '^arn- 

 son-on-Hndson, N. Y. 



BIOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS.^ 



That which is most characteristic of the 

 present epoch in the history of man is un- 

 doubtedly the vast and beneficent growth 

 of science. 



In things apart from science, other races 

 at times long past may be compared to the 

 most civilized people of to-day. 



The lyric poetry of Sappho has never 

 been equaled. The epic flavor of Homer, 

 even after translation, comes down to us 

 unsurpassed through the ages. 



Dante, the voice of ten silent centuries, 

 may wait another ten centuries before his 

 medieval miracle of song finds its peer. 



The Apollo Belvidere, the Venus of Milo, 

 the Laocoon, are the glory of antique, the 

 despair of modern sculpture. To mention 

 oratory to a schoolboy is to recall Demos- 

 thenes and Cicero, even if he has never 

 pictured Caesar, that greatest of the sons 

 of men, quelling the mutinous soldiery by 

 his first word, or with outstretched arm, in 

 Egypt's palace window, holding enthralled 

 his raging enemies, gaining precious mo- 

 ments, time, the only thing he needed to 

 enable him to crush them under his domi- 

 nant intellect. 



There is no need for multiplying ex- 

 amples. The one thing that gives the pres- 

 ent generation its predominance is science. 



All criticisms of life made before science 

 had taken its present place, or attempting 

 to ignore its prominence, are obsolete, as 

 are of necessity any systems founded on 

 pre-scientific or anti-scientific conceptions. 



^Address before the Ohio Academy of Science. 



