SCIENCE 



A W^EEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, September 15, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



Doctorates Conferred hy American Univer- 

 sities 321 



The Advance of Our Knoivledge of the Causa- 

 tion and Methods of Prevention of Stock 

 Diseases in South Africa during the Last 

 Ten Years : Coi^onel B. Bruce 327 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Summ.er Meeting of Section C, Geology and 

 Geography: Dr. E. 0. Hovey 333 



Scientific Books: — 



Baherlandt on 'Die Lichtsinnesorgane der 

 Laubbldtter: Professor Frederic E. Cle- 

 ments. Chester on Soil Bacteria and 

 Nitrogen Assimilation: Professor Aijbert 

 Schneider 336 



Scientific Journals and Articles 337 



Societies and Academies: — 



Recent Folk-Lore Meetings in California.. 337 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Latin as the Language of Botanical Diag- 

 nosis : Professor E. L. Greene. Fleas 

 and Disease: Dr. C. F. Baker 338 



Special Articles : — 



Note on the Habits of Ophidiid (Ouskell) : 

 Dr. Theo. Gill. A Note on the Habits of 

 Rissola Marginata: E. W. Gudger. In- 

 ternal Infection of the Wheat Grain by 

 Rust: Professors Henry L. Bolley and 

 F. J. Pritchard. Apparatus Tables for 

 Electrical Laboratories: Professor G. W. 

 Stewart 342 



Quotations : — 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 345 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: — 



Tantalum and its Alloys; Tin, Titanium 

 and Cobalt Steels; Copper as an Antiseptic 

 against Typhoid Fever Organisms : J. L. H. 346 



Recent Museum Reports 347 



Scientific Notes and News 349 



University and Educational News 352 



DOCTORATES CONFERRED BY AMERICAN 

 UNIVERSITIES. 



The figures in the accompanying table, 

 which have been obtained from official 

 sources, show that in the course of the past 

 eight years the degree of doctor of philos- 

 ophy or doctor of science has been con- 

 ferred on 2,037 students by thirty-five 

 American universities. This record is 

 tolerably complete, for although the degree 



TABLE I. 

 DOCTORATES CONFERRED. 



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

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

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



Chicago 



Yale 



Harvard 



Johns Hopkins 



Columbia 



Pennsylvania 



Cornell 



Clark 



Michigan 



New York 



Wisconsin 



Boston 



Virginia 



George Washington 



Minnesota 



California 



Brown 



Bryn Mawr 



Princeton 



Stanford 



Nebraska 



Georgetown 



Washington 



Iowa 



North Carolina 



Vanderbilt 



Cincinnati 



Colorado 



Kansas 



Lafayette 



Missouri 



Lehigh 



Syracuse 



Illinois 



Tulane 



272 



267 



258 



240 



239 



171 



143 



66 



54 



51 



49 



25 



23 



21 



20 



19 



18 



18 



18 



11 



10 



6 



5 



4 



4 



4 



3 



3 



3 



3 



3 



2 



2 



1 



1 



