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, December 29, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



Closer Relations between Trustees and Fac- 

 ulty: James P. Mukroe 849 



The Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries at Woods Hole, Mass.: Professor 

 F. B. Sumner 855 



Convention of the Association of American 

 Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 

 tions : Dr. E. W. Allen 859 



Scientific Books: — 



Jordan's Guide to the Study of Fishes: 

 Professor Jacob Reighard. Bolsa's Lec- 

 tures on the Calculus of Variations: Pro- 

 fessor E. R. Hedrick 861 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Washington Academy of Sciences. The 

 Biological Society of Washington: Vernon 

 Bailey 868 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Ontogenetic Species and Other Species: 

 President David Starr Jordan. Ortho- 

 genetic Variation: Dr. Robert E. Coker. 

 On the granting of the- M.D. Degree: Dr. 

 Edwin Linton. The Proposed Biological 

 Station in Greenland : M. E. Henriksen . . 872 



Special Articles: — 



The Assumed Purity of the Germ Cells in 

 Mendelian Results: Professor T. H. Mor- 

 gan. Recent Change of Level in Alaska: 

 Professor Ralph S. Tarr, Robert Martin 877 



Botanical Notes : — 



The American Breeders' Association; 

 Methods in Plant Histology ; Ferns of the 

 Philippine Islands; Some Noteworthy Bul- 

 letins : Professor Charles E. Bessey .... 881 



■Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Kite-flying over the Tropical Oceans; An 

 Instrument for Determining True Wind 

 Directions and Velocities at Sea,; British 

 Rainfall, 1904 : Professor R. DeC. Ward. 882 



Some State Census Figures for 1905: Dr. 



John Franklin Crowell 884 



The Museums Association of America 885 



Scientific Notes and News 886 



University and Educational News 888 



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

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

 flon-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



CLOSER RELATIONS BETWEEN TRUSTEES 

 AND FACULTY.^ 



I VENTURE to speak upon tlie topic: 

 'Closer Relations between Trustees and 

 Faculty' because I am in this respect 

 hermaphroditic. I have seen service upon 

 both college bodies and, moreover, have 

 studied certain problems of public school 

 administration which present many points 

 of analogy. I speak, however, with only 

 that half-knowledge which we of the east, 

 unfamiliar with state-supported universi- 

 ties, bring to the important questions of 

 this conference. 



It is a common cry that teachers — wheth- 

 er in colleges or in schools — are under- 

 paid; and the complaint (especially if one 

 has been a school official) seems amply 

 justified. The imperative need of our 

 American college faculties, however, is not 

 higher salaries; it is larger professional 

 authority and more genuine freedom. 

 Those attained, the wage question will take 

 care of itself. It is true that teaching 

 oifers no such money prizes as does law or 

 medicine ; nevertheless, the average pro- 

 fessor or schoolmaster is in many ways 

 better situated than the average lawyer or 

 physician. Despite this patent fact, the 

 number of youth who deliberately pre- 

 pare themselves to be teachers, by years 

 of serious study, is comparatively small. 

 Young men of power and ambition scorn 

 what should be reckoned the noblest of 

 professions, not because that profession 



^ Delivered at the Conference of Trustees of 

 American Colleges and Universities, at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, October 17, 1905. 



