SCIENCE 



Friday, July 22, 1910 



contents 



Vnwersity Extension: Peofessoe Louis E. 

 Rebee 97 



The Botanical Congress at Brussels: Peo- 

 fessoe W. G. Faelow, Peofessoe Geo. F. 

 Atkinson 104 



Presentation to Professor Bolza: H. E. S. .. 107 



Scientific Notes and News 108 



University and Educational News 112 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Professorial Question: PsoFfissoE 

 Joseph Jastrow 112 



Scientific Books: — 



Para Arithmetica: Peofessoe Floeian 

 Cajoei. Baldwin's Thought and Things or 

 Genetic Logic and Experimental Logic: 

 Peofessoe G. A. Tawnet 114 



Botanical Notes: Peofessoe Chaeles E. 

 Besset 119 



ial Articles: — 

 Sex-limited Inheritance im Drosophila : Peo- 

 fessoe T. H. MoEGAN. Electrolytic Experi- 

 ments sJioimng Increase in PermeaMlity of 

 the Egg to Ions at the Beginning of Devel- 

 opment : De. J. F. McClendon 120 



Geology and Geography at the Boston-Cam- 

 bridge Meeting: De. F. P. Gulltveb .... 124 



JISS. inteaded for publication and books, etc., intended for 

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

 Hudson. N. Y. 



UNIVERSITY EXTENSION ^ 



The eireumstances under which univer- 

 sity extension was introduced in this coun- 

 try and the early history of the movement 

 are so familiar that time should be devoted 

 to little more than a brief survey of the 

 main facts. 



The great popular educational factors 

 in the United States previous to 1890 were 

 the American National Lyceum founded 

 in 1831 and Chautauqua, with its summer 

 schools and Literary and Scientific Circle, 

 started in 1874. Both of these societies, 

 though quite independent of direct univer- 

 sity affiliation, embraced many features 

 that belong to university extension. 



University influences were widely dif- 

 fused through the Lyceum lecture courses, 

 which included among their contributors 

 such men as Daniel Webster, Emerson, 

 Horace Mann, Wendell Phillips, and 

 others of wide renown. 



The true principle of educational exten- 

 sion underlay the establishment of the 

 Lowell Institute of Boston and the Pea- 

 body Institute of Baltimore, both repre- 

 sentatives of the early Lyceum. The 

 debating-club, earnestly fostered by uni- 

 versity extension to-day, began with the 

 Lyceum, and the traveling library, so es- 

 sential an adjunct to extension teaching, 

 was first proposed in this country in 1831 

 when a portion of money was set aside by 

 the Lyceum for what was termed "itinera- 

 ting libraries." 



Mr. Herbert B. Adams, in the Report of 

 the United States Bureau of Education 



^ From a paper presented on behalf of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin by Professor Louis E. Reber 

 at the eleventh annual conference of the Associa- 

 tion of American Universities. 



