Apeil 27, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ing devotion to the highest, with their deep 

 and comprehensive grasp of the relations of 

 the present to the past, the local to the whole 

 world of mankind ; with their sense of duty to 

 set the feet of the oncoming generations of 

 Americans in paths laid out in accord with 

 the true laws of growth as far as science can 

 settle what the true course may be and in 

 obedience to the highest and broadest moral 

 and social purpose and responsibility. This 

 direction has been maintained at Leland Stan- 

 ford, Junior. 



Its endowment of thirty millions, its site 

 covering nine thousand acres overlooking San 

 Francisco and the Pacific, thirty miles away, 

 are superb indeed, in all senses of the word. 

 But the animating genius is that of David 

 Starr Jordan, a man with something very 

 much like the physical, mental and spiritual 

 endowment of Phillips Brooks. There would 

 be no question raised to the statement that 

 the building up and development of this uni- 

 versity is due mainly to the work and the per- 

 sonal eqiiation of President Jordan, who has 

 been its only president. We had last winter, 

 in one of the Lowell Institute lecture courses, 

 an interesting type of the Pacific coast college 

 professor in Dr. Henry Morse Stevens, of the 

 University of California, with his fascinating 

 review in twelve lectures on the growth of 

 humanitarianism in the world since Praneis 

 of Assisi and its developments in charities and 

 corrections. It is still fresh in mind — the 

 powerful impression produced here in Boston 

 by this new authority for us — the scholarship 

 and above all the social purpose revealed in a 

 remarkable series of papers demonstrating 

 from history, in a spirit of broad and dauntless 

 optimism, that the state is constantly taking 

 upon itself to see that the world does really 

 grow better through feeling a closer responsi- 

 bility for its defectives, and that patriotism 

 must be expanded beyond a narrow national- 

 ism in the scientific interpretation of history. 

 With such enlightenment flowing forth daily 

 upon the four or five thousand students of the 

 great university patronized by Mrs. Phoebe A. 

 Hearst, and similar influences shed from the 



greatmindedness of President Jordan upon 

 about half as many in that endowed by Mrs. 

 Stanford, a large proportion of all of whom 

 are young women, it is to be gathered that 

 the ' Coast ' is taking on an intellectual and 

 social culture deeper than anything that can 

 be toppled into ruin by mere destruction of 

 buildings. — The Boston Transcript. 



TEE G0N0BE88 OP THE UNITED STATES. 



April 6, 1906. — A bill passed the Senate to 

 incorporate the Areheological Institute of 

 America. 



A bill passed the Senate to appropriate 

 twenty-five thousand dollars for the establish- 

 ment of a fish cultural station in the state of 



April 9, 1906. — Senate bill, 3,245, creating 

 the Mesa Verde National Park, after amend- 

 ment, passed the Senate. 



April 11, 1906. — Senate bill, 4,487, granting 

 to the state of Oregon certain lands to be 

 vised by it for the purpose of maintaining and 

 operating there a fish hatchery passed the 

 Senate. 



April IS, 1906. — The bill to incorporate the 

 Areheological Institute of America, which 

 passed the Senate, has been referred to the 

 Committee on Foreign Affairs, in the House 

 of Representatives. 



April 17, 1906. — A bill to prohibit aliens 

 from fishing in the waters of Alaska passed 

 the House, with amendments. 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 

 The American Philosophical Society held 

 an extremely interesting meeting last week in 

 commemoration of the Franklin Bicentenary. 

 The program has been printed in Science, 

 and we hope to print later an official account 

 of the proceedings. New members were elected 

 as follows: The Hon. J. H. Choate, LL.D., 

 Dr. H. H. Donaldson, professor of neurology 

 in the Wistar Institute of the University of 

 Pennsylvania; Russell Duane, lecturer in the 

 Law School of the University of Pennsylvania 

 and a lineal descendant of Benjamin Frank- 

 lin; Dr. D. L. Edsall, assistant professor of 



