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 



Fridat, June 5, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 Opportunities for Young Men in Science: — 

 Opportunities in Botany: Peofessoe John 

 G. CoTiLTEK. Openings for Chemists: Peo- 

 fessoe W. A. NoYES. Outlook for Young 

 Men in Geology: De. H. Foster Bain. 

 Outlook for Young Men in Physics: Peo- 

 fessoe Henbt Cbew. Outlook for Young 

 Men in Zoology: De. H. V. Neal 873 



The Chemical Education of the Engineer: 

 Peofessoe Wiluam H. Ellis 882 



Scientific Boohs: — - 

 Sherrington's The Integrative Action of the 

 Nervous System: Peofessoe R. S. Wood- 

 WOETH 885 



Scientific Journals and Articles 889 



Societies and Academies: — 

 The Chicago Section of the American 

 Mathematical Society: Peofessoe H. E. 

 Slauqht. Section of Anthropology and 

 Psychology of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences: Peofessoe E.. S. Woodworth. 

 The Geological Society of Washington: 

 De. Ralph Aenold 889 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Geological Climates : De. J. M. Schaebeele. 

 Amethystine Blue: Peofessoe Henet Win- 

 ston Haepee; Edgae T. Wheeet. The 

 Italian Archives of Biology: Peofessoe 

 Chaeles S. Minot 894 



Special Articles: — 

 An Interpretation of Elementary Species: 

 De. W. J. Spillman 896 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Kassner's " Das Wetter " ; Lake Chad — its 

 Desiccation; A Railway Wind Gauge; The 

 Moon and Clouds; Mountain Sickness; 

 London Fog and Country Fog; Note: Peo- 

 fessoe R. DeC. Waed 898 



Letters concerning the Administration of 

 Syracuse University 900 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search 901 



The Darwin Celebration 901 



Scientific Notes and News 901 



University and Educational News 904 



OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN IN 



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OPPORTUNITIES IN BOTANY 



Some of us liave been assured by those 

 who have had to do with the program that 

 the sharers in this symposium are not to 

 feel themselves fettered by the specific 

 limitations of their assigned topics. 



Hence my liberty in asking first why we 

 should be concerned at all in any special 

 effort to increase interest in science work 

 as a profession. General interest in sci- 

 ence is another matter. The aim of this 

 symposium, however, appears to be to point 

 out why a choice of their life work from 

 the varioiis branches of science is a desir- 

 able choice for young men to make. 



It may be reasonably inferred, if only 

 from the remarks made this morning in 

 the discussion upon what shall be the dues 

 of this organization (so happily placed at 

 one dollar), that we have nothing very 

 great in the way of financial compensa- 

 tion to offer. For that very reason, if we 

 are good economists, should we not be the 

 last to encourage more strenuous competi- 

 tion for the apparently limited number of 

 real competences which exist for the sus- 

 tenance of life workers in science 1 Yet we 

 are most cheerfully engaged in doing that 

 very thing. Though there may be far 

 from enough to go around in generous por- 

 tions, let us by all means have more in 

 at the feast. There may be compensation 

 in the extra-prandial proceedings. 



An editorial in a recent science peri- 



' From a symposium at the organization meet- 

 ing of the Illinois State Academy of Science. 



