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though the latter be kept for weeks in a sealed 

 cell filled with water. It is even possible to 

 make very satisfactory photomicrographs of 

 living embryos within the mother larvsg, while 

 there is not the slightest diifieulty in observing 

 the movements of those nearly fully developed 

 before their escape from the mother integu- 

 ment. With our present knowledge we see 

 no reason why artificial colonies of this insect 

 might not be established in the vicinity of a 

 zoological laboratory and maintained with 

 very little or no attention from year to year, 

 if not for a decade or more. A detailed ac- 

 count of this species, with a number of illus- 

 trations will appear shortly in the writer's 

 report for last year. E. P. Felt 



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TREIIATODES OF THE DRY TORTUGAS 



My friend Albert Hassall has called my 

 attention to two of the new generic names 

 which I employed in a recent paper on the 

 Trematodes of the Dry Tortugas.^ 



The generic names Bidymorchis and Mes- 

 orchis are preempted, thus making it necessary 

 to invent other names to take their place. I 

 therefore propose for Didymorchis the name 

 Pycrwdena (tdkvos packed close, and aSrjv 

 a gland), and for Mesorchis the name Ant- 

 orchis (diTtos opposite, and opx's)- 



These two specific names hence become 

 Pycnadena (n. g.) lata (Lt.) and Antorchis 

 (n. g.) urna (Lt.). 



At the suggestion of Mr. Hassall I take 

 advantage of this opportunity to state that 

 Deradena ovalis, Hamacreadium mutahile and 

 Genolopa ampullacea are the type species of 

 their respective genera. 



Edwin Linton 



Washington and Jeffebson College, 

 Washington, Pa., 

 January 23, 1911 



QVOTATWNS 



COMMERCLiLISlI IN EDUCATION 



That the methods of higher education are 

 in a state of transition in this country ap- 



' " Helminth Fauna of the Dry Tortugas, II., 

 Trematodes," Papers of the Tortugas Laboratory, 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, Vol. IV., 

 pp. 11-98, plates 1-28; issued December 16, 1910. 



pears evident from the pedagogic innovations 

 made and the many more proposed during the 

 past several years. On the one hand, colleges 

 of higher standing are elevating their cur- 

 ricula to a real professional plane, apparently 

 having at length found it too difiicult, to say 

 the least, to instruct in the same course men 

 for such different callings as dynamo tender 

 and consulting engineer. On the other hand, 

 some schools are frankly revealing that their 

 aim is to serve, not the interests of the stu- 

 dent, but solely those of the employer of tech- 

 nical graduates, even though education di- 

 rected primarily to this narrow purpose may 

 unfit the subject for obtaining the most out of 

 life spiritually, through lowering his ideals 

 and curbing his ambitions, and financially, 

 through making him a mere serf to an in- 

 dustry. A concrete illustration of the hap- 

 hazard condition of thought concerning tech- 

 nical education is afforded by a recent report 

 of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching on " Academic and Indus- 

 trial Efficiency," prepared by a well-known 

 and doubtless capable " efficiency engineer," 

 whose business is concerned with the eco- 

 nomical administration of manufacturing 

 establishments. 



While we have no quarrel with the efficiency 

 engineer as such, nor with his efforts in the 

 course of business to report upon any problem 

 which his clients may desire investigated, we 

 can not refrain from expressing astonishment 

 at the frame of mind of one who would direct 

 the application to instruction in science of the 

 canons appropriate for running a purely 

 money-making business. The possibility of 

 such a distortion of view is the most serious 

 criticism that could possibly be launched 

 against American educational methods. As 

 well put a skilful and successful sausage 

 maker at the task of criticizing the manufac- 

 ture of astronomical telescopes. An institu- 

 tion for training young men in science, 

 whether pure or applied, is not a money-getting 

 concern. Its product is not sausages, but 

 the advancement of human intelligence, which 

 may or may not be applied to gainful objects. 

 Even in the narrowest technical sense it does 



