SCIENCE 



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FRroAY, OCTOBEE 2, 1914 



CONTHNTS 



Address of the President to the Section of 

 Mathematical and Physical Science of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science: Professor F. T. Trouton 457 



The Spirit of a University: Dr. Martin H. 

 Fischer 464 



Appropriations for the Department of Agri- 

 culture 471 



The Panama Exposition 477 



The FranJclin Medal 477 



Scientific Notes and News 478 



University and Educational News 481 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Carnegie Foundation for Teachers: Da. 

 A. F. Blakeslee. Jones's A New Era of 

 Chemistry: Professor Jas. Lewis Howe. 

 Incomes of College Graduates Ten and Fif- 

 teen years after Graduation: Professor 

 Herbert Adolphus Miller 483 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Ames on The Constitution of Matter: Pro- 

 fessor B. A. MiLLiKAN. Murray on the 

 Chemistry of Cattle-feeding and Dairying: 

 E. B. Forbes 485 



Scientific Journals and Articles 487 



Special Articles: — 



Vitality and Injury as Quantitative Concep- 

 tions: Professor W. J. V. Osterhout. 

 Soil Acidity and Methods for its Detection: 

 J. E. Harris. The Stark-Electric Effect: 

 Dr. Gordon S. Fulcher 488 



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

 review should be sent to ProfesBor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



ADDBESS OF TSE PBESIDENT TO THE 



SECTION OF MATHEMATICAL AND 



PHYSICAL SCIENCE OF THE 



BBITISH ASSOCIATION FOB 



THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE-i 



We have lost since the last meeting of 

 the section several distinguished members 

 who have in the past added so much to the 

 usefulness of our discussions. These in- 

 clude Sir Robert Ball, who was one of our 

 oldest attendants, and was president of 

 the section at the Manchester meeting in 

 1886; Professor Poynting, who was Presi- 

 dent of the Section at Dover in 1899, and 

 Sir David Gill, who was President of the 

 Association at Leicester in 1907. 



It seems appropriate at this meeting in 

 the city of Melbourne to mention one who 

 passed away from his scientific labors 

 somewhat previous to the last meeting. I 

 allude to W. Sutherland, of this city, 

 whose writings have thrown so much light 

 on molecular physics and whose scientific 

 perspicacity was only equaled by his mod- 

 esty. 



This meeting of the British Association 

 will be a memorable one as being indica- 

 tive, as it were, of the scientific coming of 

 age of Australia. Not that the maturity 

 of Australian science was unknown to 

 those best able to judge, indeed the fact 

 could not but be known abroad, for in 

 England alone there are many workers in 

 science hailing from Australia and New 

 Zealand, who have enhanced science with 

 their investigations and who hold many 

 important scientific posts in that country. 

 In short, one finds it best nowadays to ask 

 of any young investigator if he comes from 

 the Antipodes. 



1 Seotion A : Australia, 1914. 



