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, April 13, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



The Academic Career as affected by Admin- 

 istration: Professob Joseph Jastbow.... 561 



Scientific Books: — ■ 



Merriman's Elements of Mechanics, James's 

 Elements of the Kinematics of a Point and 

 the Rational Mechanics of a Particle: Pbo- 

 FESSOE L. M. HOSKINS. Patterson's The 

 Other Side of Evolution: Pbofessob C. H. 



ElGENMANN '. 574 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts 

 and Letters: Chaeles E. Aiusn. The 

 Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 CHAEtES K. Wead. The Oregon State 

 Academy of Sciences: Pbofessob Geoege E. 

 CoGHiLL. University of Colorado Scientific 

 Society: Pbofessoe Feancis Ramaxey 579 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Meteorite Shower at Modoc, Kansas: 

 OuvEE C. Faebinqton. Capture of the 

 West Indian Seal at Key West, Florida: 

 De. C. H. Townsend. On the Origin of 

 the Small Mounds of the Lower Mississippi 

 Valley and Texas : P. J. Fabnswobth 582 



Articles : — 



The Fish Genus Alahes or Cheilobranchus : 

 De. Theo. Gill. The Functions of the 

 Fins of Fishes : Pbofessob Raymond 0. Os- 

 BUBN. Columbia Field Work in 1905, In- 

 tercollegiate Field Courses in Geology: 

 Thomas C. Bbown. The Embryogeny of 

 Syniplocarpus Foetidus Salisb.: C. Otto 

 EosBNDAHL. Lowcr Paleozoic Formations 

 in New Mexico: C. H. Goedon, L. C. 

 Geaton. a New Method for the Homo- 

 plastic Transplantation of the Ovary: 

 Alexis Cabeel and C. C. Gutheie 584 



■Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



Annals of Mont Blanc Observatory; 

 Meteorologische Zeitschrift ; Forests and 

 Rainfall; Notes: Peofessoe R. DeC. 

 Waed 592 



•Carbon Suboxide: Dr. J. Bishop Tingle.... 593 



Analysis of the Results of the Twelfth Census 594 



Awards of the Royal Geographical Society . . 594 



The Congress of the United States 595 



'The Ohio State University 596 



The Installation of President Houston 596 



The American Philosophical Society 597 



Scientific Notes and News 598 



University and Educational News 600 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE ACADEMIC CAREER AS AFFECTED BY 

 ADMIN ISTRA TION} 



It is my purpose to discuss, in accordance 

 with the central theme of this conference, 

 the influences exerted upon the academic 

 career by the present administrative con- 

 duet of university affairs. Whether or not 

 we are prepared to admit that whatever is 

 best administered is best, it seems both fair 

 and profitable to judge the value of admini- 



^In view of the appearance in Science of Pro- 

 fessor Cattell's proposals for university organiza- 

 tion, I have decided to avail myself of the wider 

 publicity for my own treatment of a related 

 issue. My presentation, in common with that of 

 Mr. Munroe (Science, December 29, 1905) was 

 read before the Trustees' Conference held at the 

 University of Illinois in October, 1905. My per- 

 sonal judgment endorses the complete reconstruc- 

 tive plan that Professor Cattell proposes; 

 I have, however, confined my constructive 

 suggestions to two urgent but simple meas- 

 ures that may be looked upon as the minimum 

 step in the ' gradual evolution ' by which the com- 

 prehensive plan is to be established. The public 

 discussion of this problem and the indication of 

 the defective status of university organization and 

 tendencies, are in themselves decided gains in 

 shaping opinion. The danger to the academic 

 career seems to me the most serious menace. 

 Any steps taken for the relief of this situation 

 will most directly further the cultural interests 

 of the nation. 



