SCIENCE 



Friday, December 30, 1910 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Achance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 The Making of a Darwin: President David 

 Stake Jordan 929 



An Experiment in Medical Pedagogy : Pbofes- 

 SOE E. R. LeCount 942 



Notes Relative to the inventors Chiild 948 



The National Geographic Society 949 



The University of Chicago and Mr. Rocke- 

 feller 950 



Soientifio Notes and News 951 



University and Educational News 952 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Facts and Pnnciples: Db. Sidney GtTNN. 

 " Genotype:" Db. F. A. Bather 953 



Quotations : — 



Academic and Industrial Efficiency 953 



Scientific Books: — 



Physical and Commercial Geography: Pbo- 

 FESSOE J. Paui, Goode. Chemical Text- 

 books: Pbofessor E. Renout 955 



Special Articles: — 



Notes on the Passenger Pigeon: Db. W J 

 McGee 958 



Scientific Journals and Articles 964 



Botanical Notes: — 



A Much Needed Book; An Important Ex- 

 periment; Plant Genera: Peofessob 

 Chables E. Bessey 964 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 R. L. Fabis. The New York Section of the 

 American Chemical Society: Dr. C. M. 

 Joyce. The Botanical Society of Washing- 

 ton: W. W. STOCiaEBGEE 966 



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

 review should be sczt to the Editor oi Scikncb, Garrisoa-oo- 

 Uudson, N, Y. 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 THE MAKING OF A DARWIN '^ 



I MAY take my text from a recent remark 

 of Henry Fairfield Osborn to the effect that 

 a Darwin could not be produced in the 

 American university of to-day. This raises 

 a number of questions, some of them un- 

 answerable, but all of them worthy of the 

 attention of scientific men interested in the 

 continuance of a race of investigators. 



As a starting point, I may quote Pro- 

 fessor Osborn 's words in full: 



If " the poet is bom, not made," the man of 

 science is surely both born and made. Rare as 

 was Darwin's genius, it was not more rare than 

 the wonderful succession of outward events which 

 shaped his life. It was true in 1817, as to-day, 

 that few teachers teach and few educators edu- 

 cate. It is true that those were the dull days of 

 classical and mathematical drill. Yet look at the 

 roster of Cambridge and see the men it produced. 

 From Darwin's regular college work he may have 

 gained but little, yet he was all the while enjoy- 

 ing an exceptional training. Step by step he was 

 made a strong man by a mental guidance which 

 is without parallel, by the precepts and example 

 of his father, for whom he held the greatest 

 reverence, by his reading the poetry of Shak- 

 spere, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Milton, and 

 the scientific prose of Paley, Herschel and Hum- 

 boldt, by the subtle scholarly influences of old 

 Cambridge, by the scientific inspirations and ad- 

 vice of Henslow, by the masterful inductive influ- 

 ence of the geologist Lyell, and by the great 

 nature panorama of the voyage of the Beagle. 



The college mates of Darwin saw more truly 

 than he himself what the old university was 

 doing for him. Professor Poulton, of Oxford, 

 believes that the kind of life which so favored 

 Darwin's mind has largely disappeared in Eng- 

 lish universities, especially under the sharp sys- 



' Retiring president's address before the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Jlinneapolis, Minn., December 27, 1910. 



