SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THB 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Feidat, June 28, 1907 



ODNTENTS 



American Universities: Pbofessoe A. Law- 

 rence Lowell 985 



The Annual Meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Museums 996 



Scientific Books: — 



Clays, their Occurrence, Properties and 

 Uses: Peofessor Eugene A. Smith. Cza- 

 pek's Biochemie der Pflanzen: De. R. H. 

 Tetie 999 



Scientific Jowrnals and Articles 1001 



Societies and Academies: — 



Section of Astronomy, Physics and Chem- 

 istry of the New York Academy of Sci- 

 ences: PEorESsoE William Campbell 1002 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Clock of the U. S. Naval Observatory : 

 Dr. W. S. Eichelbebgee. Variation in the 

 Corolla of Linaria vulgaris Mill: J. B. 

 Tdbnee. The Indian Bedbug and the Kala 

 Azar Disease: A. Abs^ne Gibault 1003 



Special Articles: — 



The Solenodon of San Domingo; its Ex- 

 ternal Cliaracters and Habits: Professoe 

 A. E. Vereill. a Note on the Hammer- 

 head Shark and its Food: E. W. Gudqee. 

 Do Offspring inherit equally from Each 

 Parent? Professor Michael P. Gtjter. 

 Thrusts and Recumbent Folds, a Sugges- 

 tion bearing on Alpine Structure: Bailey 

 Willis 1004 



Quotations : — 



Teachers' Salaries amd Minnesota 1011 



The Award of the Boyden Premium by the 

 Franklin Institute 1012 



tific Notes and Neios 1013 



and Educational Neips 1015 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES'^ 

 Many of the great industrial concerns 

 of the present day are said to earn their 

 dividends by means of their by-products. 

 Not that their main work is the less essen- 

 tial, but that the keenness of competition 

 has forced the managers to pay close atten- 

 tion to every source of revenue. If this is 

 the ease with industry it may be said with 

 equal truth that the benefits of institutions 

 among men often consist chiefly of their 

 indirect effects; and I want to speak to- 

 night of one great indirect influence for 

 good of American universities. By an in- 

 direct effect I mean one which is not a 

 conscious object, or at least not one of the 

 prime conscious objects, of existence. The 

 prime objects of a university may be 

 grouped under four heads: (1) giving a 

 general education to a large number of 

 young people; (2) fitting students by a 

 special training for the practise of a par- 

 ticular occupation or prof ession ; (3) main- 

 taining a body of scholars who add to the 

 sum of human knowledge; and (4) recruit- 

 ing the men who are to succeed them— for 

 with a really great scholar the problem is 

 not so much to teach him as to discover 

 and stimulate him. Now for the attain- 

 ment of these four objects various organs 

 of the university have been established. 



'Address delivered at Yale University on April 

 19, 1907, being the third of the annual Harvard 

 lectures. The fund for this course of lectures was 

 provided by an anonymous Harvard graduate. 

 The first lecture was given in 1905 by President 

 Eliot, and the second in 1906 by Professor George 

 H. Palmer. 



