SCIENCE 



Friday, September 8, 1911 

 contents 



Address of the President of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science: 

 Sir William Eamsay 289 



The First Universal Eaces Congress: Pro- 

 TESSOK A. C. Haddon 304 



The Marine Biological Laboratory 306 



The University of Texas 307 



Scientific Notes and News 308 



University and Educational News 312 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Moisture and Out-of -Doors; Electrons; 

 The Science of Government; Due — : Pro- 

 fessor Arthur Gordon Webster 312 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



WhittaTcer's History of the Theories of 

 Mther and Electricity: J. Z. Kellicott on 

 the Social Direction of Evolution: Pro- 

 fessor T. D. A. CocKERELL. Thomdihe on 

 Animal Intelligence: Professor J. B. 

 Watson 316 



Quotations : — ■ 



Seven Years' Progress in Medical Educa- 

 tion 317 



Scientific Journals and Articles 319 



Special Articles: — 



Where are the Laramie Dinosaurs? Dr. F. 



H. Knowlton 319 



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 reTiew should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



ADDBESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE^ 



It is now eighty years since this associa- 

 tion first met at York, under the presidency 

 of Earl Fitzwilliam. The object of the 

 association was then explicitly stated : " To 

 give a stronger impulse and a more sys- 

 tematic direction to scientific inquiry, to 

 promote the intercourse of those who cul- 

 tivate science in different parts of the 

 British Empire with one another and with 

 foreign philosophers, to obtain a more gen- 

 eral attention to the objects of science and 

 a removal of any disadvantages of a public 

 kind which impede its progress." 



In 1831 the workers in the domain of 

 science were relatively few. The Royal 

 Society, which was founded by Dr. Willis, 

 Dr. Wilkins, and others, under the name of 

 the "Invisible, or Philosophical College," 

 about the year 1645, and which was incor- 

 porated in December, 1660, with the ap- 

 proval of King Charles II., was almost the 

 only meeting-place for those interested in 

 the progress of science ; and its Philosophi- 

 cal Transactions, begun in March, 1664-5, 

 almost the only medium of publication. Its 

 character was described in the following 

 words of a contemporary poem : 



' ' This noble learned Corporation 



Not for themselres are thus combined 

 To prove all things by demonstration 

 But for the public good of the nation 

 And general benefit of mankind. ' ' 



The first to hive off from the Royal So- 

 ciety was the Linnean Society for the pro- 

 motion of botanical studies, founded in 

 1788 by Sir James Edward Smith, Sir 



^Portsmouth, 1911. 



