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, November 17, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



The Fimction of the State University : Peesi- 

 DEJN'T Edmuj^d Janes James 609 



Scientific Books : — 



Geikie's Structural and Field Geology for 

 Students: Pkofessok B. K. Emeeson. 

 Brigham's Student's Laboratory Manual of 

 Physical Geography: De. Mabk S. W. 

 Jefferson. Winsloio's Applied Micro- 

 scopy : S. H. G. Campbell's Structure and 

 Development of Mosses and Ferns: Peo- 

 FESSOE Chaeles E. Bessey 628 



Scientific Journals and Articles 632 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 Chaeles K. Wead. The Society for Ex- 

 perimental Biology and Medicine: Peo- 

 FEssoE William J. Gies 633 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Geographical Distribution of Students: 

 Jerome D. Geeene. The Making of Lan- 

 tern Slides: Peofessok W. S. Feanklin. . 637 



Special Articles: — 



Orthogenetic Variation: Peofessoe H. 

 Gadow. Note on Vector Symbols: H. 

 ScHAPPEE. The Occurrence of Ichthyosaur- 

 like Remains in the Upper Cretaceous of 

 Wyoming : Peofessoe John C. Meeeiam . . 637 



Quotations :- — 



Trustees and Faculties 641 



The Rhodes Scholarships ' 641 



The Research Laboratory of Physical Chem- 

 istry of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology 642 



The American Society of Naturalists and 

 Affiliated Societies 643 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science 643 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 644 



University and Educational News 647 



MSS. inteudedfor publicatiou aud books, etc, intended 

 tor review should be sent to tlie Editor of Science, Garri- 

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE FUNCTION OF THE STATE 

 UNIVERSITY} 



The University of Illinois owes its 

 foundation to the initiative of the federal 

 government of the United States. 



The celebrated Morrill Land Grant Act 

 of July 2, 1862, provided that each state 

 in the union should be granted thirty 

 thousand acres of land for each senator 

 and representative to which the state was 

 entitled in the federal congress, for the 

 establishment and support 'of at least one 

 college, whose leading object shall be (with- 

 out excluding other scientifie and classical 

 studies, and including military tactics) to 

 teach such branches of learning as are re- 

 lated to agriculture and the mechanic arts, 

 * * * in order to promote the liberal and 

 practical education of the industrial classes 

 in the several pursuits and professions of 

 life.' 



This has turned out to be one of the most 

 magnificent endowments of higher educa- 

 tion ever made by any government, church 

 or individual, whether we have regard to 

 its immediate effects in leading to the es- 

 tablishment of the particular institutions 

 contemplated in the act, or to its remoter 

 effects in further increasing and stimula- 

 ting state benevolence for this same general 

 purpose. 



As the result of the said grant, at least 

 one institution corresponding to the above 

 description has been established in each 

 state and territory in the union. There 



^ Inaugural address of Dr. Edmund Janes 

 James on the occasion of his installation as presi- 

 dent of the University of Illinois, October 18, 1905. 



