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 



FEroAT, April 3, 1908 



CONTENTS 



The ATtierioan Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science : — 

 The Outlook of the Section for Education: 



Db. Elmer Ellsworth Brown 521 



Section L — Education: Professoe C R. 

 Mann 525 



The American Federation of Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and the Natural Sciences: 

 Professor C. R. Mann 528 



The College and the University: President 

 David Starr Jordan 530 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Santee's Anatomy of the Brain and Spi- 

 nal Cord: Professor Irving Hardestt. 

 Bdcher's Introduction to Higher Algehra: 

 Professor G. A. Miller 533 



Scientific Journals and Articles 536 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Oeological Society of Washington: 

 Philip S. Smith. The Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Washington: K. L. Faris. The 

 Biological Society of Washington: M. C. 

 Marsh. The Botanical Society of Wash- 

 ington: W. JK Safford. The Torrey Botan- 

 ical Club: De. C. Stuart Gager. The New 

 York Section of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety : Dr. C. M. Joyce 537 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Cooperation in Scientific Bibliography: 

 Professor Charles Atwood Kofoid. The 

 Inheritance of Fluctuating Variation: Dr. 

 A. E. Oetmann. To Reduce Seasickness to 

 a Minimum : Dr. Eugene S. Talbot .... 543 



Special Articles: — 



Competitive Athletics and Scholarship: 

 Dr. Paul C. Phillips 547 



The So-called Volcano in the S^nta Monica 

 Mountains, near Los Angeles, California: 

 Kalph S. Arnold, H. R. Johnson 553 



Joint Recommendations of ihe Physiological 

 and Biochemical Committees on Protein 

 Nomenclature 554 



Third Session of the Graduate School of 

 Agriculture 556 



Organization of the Utah Academy of Sciences 557 



Scientific Notes and News 558 



University and Educational News 560 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



THE OUTLOOK OF THE SECTION FOB 



EDUCATION '■ 



It is not expected of the presiding officer 

 of this new section that he will make any 

 extended address at this time. In fact 

 those good friends who have had longer 

 experience than I in the American Asso- 

 ciation and who proposed that I say a few 

 words by way of introducing Section L to 

 the association, very thoughtfully added 

 the intimation that brevity in this speech 

 would be altogether appropriate. Each 

 presiding officer of a section may speak his 

 mind at length in the regular vice-presi- 

 dential address, delivered at the meeting 

 following that at which he has presided. 

 That address is in the nature of a valedic- 

 tory oration. The first in the line of vice- 

 presidents of any section has the sole op- 

 portunity of serving also as salutatorian 

 for his section. It is an advantage over 

 his successors which he is bound in honor 

 not to abuse. 



One thing, however, ought not to be left 

 unsaid. The new section is glad that it is, 

 and I should not fairly represent it if I 

 did not express to the parent society its 

 appreciation of the high purpose that called 

 it into being. Its satisfaction in this re- 

 gard is shared, I am sure, by the great 

 body of school men throughout the land. 



We see in this act Of the American Asso- 

 ciation a sign that the alliance of science 

 with education, more or less clearly dis- 



' Address of the vice-president at the Chicago 

 meeting. 



