SCIENCE 



Friday, Octobek 28, 1910 



CONTENTS 

 Huxley on Education: Db. Heney FaibfieU) 



OSBOBN 569 



America/n Educational Defects: Peofessob 

 Sidney Gtjnn 578 



Boioard Taylor Ricketts 585 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search 587 



Foundations for Research at Berlin 588 



Scientific Notes and News 588 



University and Educational News 593 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Nomenclature at Brussels: Db. C. L. Sheae 594 



Scientific Books: — 



Mayer on the Medusce of the World: Peo- 

 FESSOE C. C. Nutting. Mulliken on the 

 Identification of the Commercial Dyestuffs: 

 Pbofessoe C. E. Peixew 596 



Scientific Journals and Articles 601 



Botanical Notes: — 



Two Recent Books on Lichens; Three Path- 

 ological Books; Poisonous Plants; A New 

 Mushroom Book: Pbofessoe Chaeles E. 

 Bessey 601 



The Scientific Results of the First Cruise of 

 the " Carnegij " in Magnetism, Electricity, 

 Atmospheric Refraction and Gravity: De. 

 L. A. Bal-eb 604 



Special Articles: — 



The Nature of Electric Discharge: Pbo- 

 fessoe Fbancis E. Nipheb 608 



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

 rcTlow ihould be se^t to the Editor oi' Sciesce, Garrison-oo- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



BVXLET ON EDUCATION^ 

 The stars come nightly to the sky; 



The tidal wave comes to the sea; 

 Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high 



Can keep my own away from me. 



— BUBBOUQHS. 



The most sanguine day of the college 

 year is the opening one: the student has 

 not yet faced the impossible task annually 

 presented of embracing the modern world 

 of knowledge; his errors and failures of 

 earlier years are forgotten; he faces the 

 coming months full of new hope. 



How would my old master, Huxley, ad- 

 dress you if he were to find you in this 

 felicitous frame of mind, sharpening your 

 wits and your pencils for the contest which 

 will begin to-morrow moi'ning in every hall 

 and laboratory of this great university? 

 May I speak for him as I heard him during 

 the ■winter of 1879-80 from his lecture 

 desk and as he kindly in conversation gave 

 me of his stores of wisdom and experience ? 

 May I add from his truly brilliant essays 

 entitled "Science and Education," deliv- 

 ered between 1874 and 1887 ? May I con- 

 tribute also from my own thirty-seven 

 years of life as a student and teacher, be- 

 ginning in 1873 and reaching a turning 

 point in 1910 when Columbia enrolled me 

 among its research professors? It was 

 Huxley's life, his example, the tone of his 

 writings rather than his actual precepts, 

 which most influenced me, for in 1879 he 

 was so intensely absorbed in public work 

 and administration, as well as in research 

 and teaching, that little opportunity re- 

 mained for personal conferences with his 



'Address at the opening of the college year, 

 Columbia University, September 28, 1910. 



