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 



Friday, May 1, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 Laboratory Organization: Peofessoe Chables 

 Baskerville 681 



The Carnegie Foundation not a Charity hut 

 an Educational Agency 687 



Soientifio Books: — 



Smith's Electro-analysis: Pkofessoe Gil- 

 bert N. Lewis 689 



Scientific Journals and Articles 690 



Societies and Academies: — 



The National Academy of Sciences. The 

 Biological Society of Washington: M. C. 

 Marsh. The Anthropological Society of 

 Washington: Dk. Walter Hough. The 

 Geological Society of Washington: Philip 

 S. Smith. The Philosophical Society of 

 Washington: R. L. Fabis. The New York 

 Section of the American Chemical Society: 

 Dr. C. M. Joyce 691 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



2*716 Interpretation of the Behavior of the 

 Lower Organisms: Pbofessoe H. S. Jen- 

 nings 698 



Special Articles: — 



Interpretation of the Chemical Composition 

 of the Mineral Benitoite: Professor Ed- 

 ward H. Kraus. Some Physical Charac- 

 teristics of College Students: Dr. G. L. 

 Meylan 710 



The American Federation of Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and Natural Sciences 713 



New England Federation of Natural History 

 Societies :.^ 714 



Geographical Field Study in Italy and the 

 Alps 715 



Scientific Positions in the Philippines 715 



Scientific Notes and News 716 



University and Educational News 720 



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

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

 Hudson. N. Y. 



LABORATORY ORGANIZATION^ 

 Problems incident to a complete reor- 

 ganization of a growing department, con- 

 struction and equipment of a laboratory 

 with adequate provision for a thousand 

 students, and the laying out of suitable 

 courses of instruction for a college proper, 

 have so engrossed my time during the past 

 two or three years, that I have had to 

 forego in a large part the pleasure of the 

 pursuit of research in my special field of 

 inorganic chemistry and offering the re- 

 sults for your consideration. Such is the 

 price the teacher, who loves his work, must 

 and does pay. As the coming half year 

 promises a consummation of the work in 

 this direction to a fair degree and as it is 

 the purpose of the authorities of the college 

 to formally dedicate the new buildings in 

 May next, to which ceremony it will be our 

 pleasure in due time to request your at- 

 tendance, it has appeared appropriate, in 

 preparation for your visit, to present to 

 you this evening and at the two succeeding 

 meetings of the section, a series of three 

 short papers under the titles "Laboratory 

 Organization," "Principles of Laboratory 

 Construction" and "Courses in Chemistry 

 for Colleges. ' ' That such hackneyed titles 

 offer little that is attractive is recognized, 

 yet I am constrained to believe that what 

 I shall have to say will serve as an incentive 

 for discussion. In this connection allow 

 me to remind you of the fact that the insti- 

 tution to which I shall refer more partieu- 



' Read before the New York Section of the 

 American Chemical Society, February 7, 1908. 



