Friday, December 2, 1910 



CONTENTS 



Address at the Dedication of the Entomology 

 and Zoology Building of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College: Dr. L. 0. Howard .. 769 



The Status of Modern Meteorology: Dr. 

 Frank H. Bigemw 775 



A Zoological Laboratory at Montego Bay, 

 Jamaica : Professor E. A. Andrews 782 



The International Congress of Radiology and 

 Electricity: Professor BEHTnAii B. Bolt- 

 wood 788 



The Convocation Week Meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and Affiliated Societies 791 



Scientific Notes and Neics 792 



University and Educational Neios 795 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Somantic Nomenclature : Frofessor James 

 G. Needham. a Common Sumach Gall 

 produced by a Mite: Professor T. D. A. 

 Cockerell. Sex-limited Inheritance: Dr. 

 Philip B. Hadley. Correspondence in 

 regard to the Length of Service Pensions 

 of the Carnegie Foundation: Professor J. 



MCIVEEN CaTTELL, PRESIDENT CHARLES F. 



Thwing, President Henry S. Pritchett . 795 



Quotations: — 



Medical Research 800 



Scientifio Books: — 



Rcdi's Experiments on the Oeneration of 

 Insects: Professor William A. Locy. 802 



Education a National Function: Dr. Edmund 

 J. James 803 



Special Articles: — 



The JScidial Stages of Willoio and Poplar 

 Rusts: H. H. Whetzel and D. Reddick .. 805 



Societies and Academies : — • 



The National Academy of Sciences. The 

 Philosophical Society of Washington: R. 

 L. Fabis. The Chemical Society of Wash- 

 ington: J. A. LeClerc. The Biological 

 Society of Washington : D. E. Lantz. The 

 Botanical Society of Washington: Dr. W. 

 W. Stockberger. The Anthropological So- 

 ciety of Washington: J. M. Casanowicz . . 806 



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

 reviow sboald be aert to the Editor of Science, Garrison-oo- 

 Hudson. N. Y. 



ADDRESS AT TEE DEDICATION OF THE 

 ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BUILD- 

 ING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE^ 



When Professor Pernald began to teacli 

 entomology in the Maine State College at 

 Orono, in 1872, there was only one other 

 teacher of the subject in the United States, 

 and that was Dr. Hagen, at Harvard, who 

 had only an occasional student. Of earlier 

 attempts to teach entomology on this side 

 of the Atlantic there is little of record. 

 W. D. Peck lectured at Harvard in the 

 earlier years of the last century, and after 

 1831 T. W. Harris, while librarian of Har- 

 vard, had a private class in entomology, 

 meeting one evening a week, and on Satur- 

 day afternoons went with his class in good 

 weather on a ramble. Colonel Higginson 

 writes : ' ' Doctor Harris was so simple and 

 eager, his tall spare form and thin face 

 took on such a glow and freshness; he 

 dwelt so lovingly on antennte and tarsi and 

 handled so fondly his little insect martyrs, 

 that it was enough to make one love this 

 study for life beyond all branches of nat- 

 ural science." 



Teachers of natural history of those days 

 had to cover botany, zoology, geology, hu- 

 man physiology, chemistry and natural 

 philosophy. Collections and apparatus 

 were practically non-existent. The publi- 

 cation of Harris's "Insects Injurious to 

 Vegetation" in 1841, classic though it was, 

 aroused no great interest in the study of 

 insects, and it remained for Packard's 

 "Guide to the Study of Insects," pub- 

 lished in Salem in 1869 and written by a 

 j'oung and enthusiastic worker inspired by 



'November 11, 1910. 



