SCIENCE 



Friday, August 19, 1910 



CONTENTS 



Criticism of the Engineering Schools: Pbo- 

 FESSOE DUGALD C. Jackson 225 



Doctorates Conferred by American Universi- 

 ties 231 



Scientific Notes and News 238 



University and Educational News 241 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Selective Fertilization and tlie Relation of 

 the Chromosomes to Sex-production: Pbo- 

 FESSOE Edmund B. Wilson. Higher Edu- 

 cation in Pittsiurgh — A Comparative Study 

 of Salaries: De. A. W. CBA-nroED. On the 

 Origin of Flint-like Slate near Chapel Hill, 

 N. C: H. N. Eaton. The Oscillations of 

 Swinging Bodies: PEorESSOE B. O. Peiece 242 



Scientific Books: — 



Eaton's Birds of New York: De. J. A. 

 Allen. Lacroix's Mineralogie de la France 

 et de ses Colonies: Waldemae T. Schallee. 

 Buckman on Yorkshire Type Ammonites: 

 T. W. Stanton 247 



Special Articles: — 



The Increased Permeatility of Sea Urchin 

 Eggs folloiving Fertilization: Peoi^ssoe E. 

 P. Lyon and L. F. Shackell. A Peculiar 

 Heat Phenomenon: F. R. Watson. Mioro- 

 seisms: Ds. Otto Klotz 249 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Iowa Academy of Science: L. D. Ross. 

 The Botanical Society of Washington: W. 

 W. Stockbeegee 254 



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

 review sliould be se2t to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Htidson, N. Y. 



CRITICISM OF THE ENGINEERING SCHOOLS^ 

 Francis Bacon said in the introduction 

 to his "Maxims of the Law": 



I hold every man a debtor to his profession; 

 from the which as men, of course, do seek to 

 receive countenance and profit, so ought of duty 

 to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be 

 a help and ornament thereunto. 



This quotation is so enriched by age that 

 it can be constantly quoted without at- 

 tracting the charge of being trite; and its 

 meaning is particularly apposite to my 

 subject. I press it upon your attention 

 the more willingly because teachers and 

 professional men generally are given to 

 overlooking the importance of its precept. 

 An engineering school has a hard duty, for 

 it must teach science and business, human- 

 ity and common sense, and withal it must 

 give its students professional ideals. The 

 present is a period of discussion and ad- 

 justment of the relationships of engineer- 

 ing courses to the preparatory schools and 

 to the so-called liberal college courses. 

 Various of our universities are setting up 

 requirements for entrance into their engi- 

 neering courses which include a part of the 

 subjects leading more particularly to the 

 bachelor of arts degree; and one of our 

 greatest universities has made the posses- 

 sion of a bachelor of arts or equivalent de- 

 gree the prime requirement of entrance 

 into the studies of its engineering school, 

 and has called its school a "graduate 

 school of engineering." The adopted 

 name for that school seems to me a mis- 

 nomer, for the major portion of its teach- 



' Lecture before the Stevens Engineering Society, 

 November 23, 1909. 



