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 



Feidat, Apkil 26, 1907 



CONTENTS 



Present-day Conditions and the Responsibili- 

 ties of the University: Professoe J. Piat- 

 FAiB McMtjerich 641 



The Chemist and the Community: De. 

 Abthub D. Little 647 



Anthropology at the New York Meeting: Peo- 

 FESSOR George Grant MacCuedt 653 



Scientific Books: — 



Pitt-Rivers on the Evolution of Culture: 

 O. T. M. Jensen's Organische Zweckmas- 

 sigkeit : Professor H. S. Jennings .... 665 



Societies and Academies: — 



The National Academy of Sciences. The 

 Philosophical Society of Washington: R. L. 

 Faris. The American Chemical Society, 

 New York Section: Db. C. M. Joyce. 

 Northeastern Section: Professoe Frank 

 H. Thoep 666 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Misleading and the Non-informing 

 Title: G. W. Ejrkaldt. The Disputed 

 Eruptions of Vesuvius: T. D. Bergen . . 670 



Special Articles: — 

 A Plant-tumor of Bacterial Origin: De. 

 Eewin I. Smith and 0. 0. Townsend. 671 



Notes on Organic Chemistry: — 



Catalytic Action of Ether and of Tertiary 

 Bases on the Claisen Condensation and on 

 the Formation of Grignard's Reagent: De. 

 J. Bishop Tingle and Eenest E. Gorslin 673 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Von Bezold, Paulsen, Russell; Sounding the 

 Air over the Oceans; Rainfall and the Sal- 

 ton Sea; Climate of Virginia; Railroads 

 and Vegetation in the Tropics; Notes: 

 Professor R. DeO. Ward 674 



Experiments on Human Nutrition 675 



Commemoration in Celebration of the Two 

 Hundredth Armiversary of the Death of 

 LinruBUs 676 



Scientific Notes and News 677 



University and Educational News 680 



MSS. intended for publication and boots, etc., intended foi 

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



PRESENT-DAY CONDITIONS AND THE RE-- 

 SP0N8IBILITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY^ 



It is proper that the office which I have 

 the honor of representing to-night should 

 be a cynosure, but it is unfortunate when 

 in connection with any office, be it never 

 so exalted, there is a tendency to fall into 

 the Malapropian error of confounding a 

 cynosure with a sinecure. I presume that 

 it is with a view to avoiding this danger 

 that an address has become one of the 

 recognized duties pertaining to the chair- 

 manship of this society, and it is but 

 natural that the address should consider 

 some topic connected with our scientific 

 activities. Arguing upon this line, I was 

 tempted to accept this as an opportunity 

 for proposing the toast of ' our noble 

 selves,' and to discourse upon the remark- 

 able growth of the scientific spirit in the 

 middle west during the last decade and the 

 part taken by the members of this asso- 

 ciation in that growth. I decided, how- 

 ever, that I could not do justice to such 

 a theme, for although 'good wine needs 

 no bush,' yet unworthy words may mar 

 a good tale. 



But while I may not linger upon so 



* Address of the chairman of the Central Branch 

 of the Society of American Naturalists at the 

 meeting held at the University of Wisconsin, 

 March 29, 1907. 



