SCIENCE 



Friday, July 8, 1910 



CONTENTS 

 The Twentieth Century Engineer: Peofessob 

 Henet S. Caehaet 33 



Medical Education in the United States and 

 Canada: Abeaham Flexneb 41 



Henri/ Augustus Torrey : Peofessob Theo- 



DOEE W. RlCHAEDS, GbEQOET P. BAXTEE, 



Beuce Wtman 50 



The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the 

 University of California 51 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search 51 



Scientific Notes and News 51 



University aiid Educational News 54 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Botanical Gardens: De. Ai-fbed Schneider. 

 Classification of the Edentates: Db. Theo. 

 Gill 55 



Scientific Books: — 



Duggar on Fungous Diseases of Plants: 

 De. Ebwin F. Smith. The Zoology of the 

 Indian Ocean: Peofessob T. D. A. Cock- 

 eeell. The Geography of Ferns: W. T. 

 Partridge's Outline of Individual Study: 

 Pbofessoe E. a. Kibkpateick. Kennan on 

 Tent Life in Siberia: De. Wm. H. Dall . . 56 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Chemical Society of Washington: J. A. 

 LeClebc. The Geological Society of Wash- 

 ington: Fean^ois E. Matthes 62 



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

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

 Hudson, N, Y. 



THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGINEER"- 

 It is essential to develop industrialism, . . . 

 to train men so that they shall be engineers, 

 merchants — in short, men able to take the lead 

 in all the various functions indispensable in a 

 great modern civilized state. 



Such was the recent utterance of a dis- 

 tinguished American traveler in an address 

 at the ancient Moslem University on the 

 banks of the Nile. It reflects the senti- 

 ment prevailing in America to-day. Mr. 

 Eoosevelt held up as it were a mirror to 

 the Egyptians, that they might see in it 

 the reflection of American conviction 

 relative to education. The iinderlying 

 thought is, as he expressed it, that 



There has always been too great a tendency in 

 the higher schools of learning in the west (the 

 Occident) to train men merely for literary, pro- 

 fessional and official positions; altogether too 

 great a tendency to act as if a literary education 

 were the only real education. 



The foundation of healthy life in the 

 state is necessarily composed of the men 

 who do the actual productive work of the 

 country. Among these producers the en- 

 gineer is preeminent. Without him in the 

 complex commercial life of the present, 

 capital would lie idle, colossal manufac- 

 tures would shrink to individual indus- 

 tries, the development of resources would 

 cease, the earth would no longer contribute 

 as now to the wealth of nations, and society 

 might eventually relapse into the relation 

 of the feudal baron and his retainers of the 

 middle ages. 



The engineer is now more than ever be- 

 fore an essential factor in affairs. Engi- 



' An address delivered at the dedication of Pasa- 

 dena Hall of the Throop Polytechnic Institute, 

 Pasadena, Cal., June 8, 1910. 



