SCIENCE 



Friday, October 13, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 American Veterinary Education and its Prob- 

 lems : Peopessor Vebanus A. Moore .... 457 



The British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: — 

 Address to the Botanical Section: Pro- 

 fessor F. E. Weiss 464 



Work at the Marine Biological Station at San 

 Diego : Professor William E. Ritter .... 480 



The International Eugenics Congress 483 



Professor Johannsen's Columbia Lectures . . . 484 



Scientific Notes and News 484 



University and Educational News 487 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Cotton Worm in Massachusetts: Pro- 

 fessor H. T. EernalD'. Vectorial Treat- 

 ment of Secondary Maxima in Grating 

 Spectra: Professor Henry Crew 488 



Quotations : — 

 The University President and his Professors 488 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 De Vries's The Mutation Theory: Dr. C. 

 Stuart Gager. Walker's Outlines of the 

 Theory of Electromagnetism : Professor E. 

 P. Adams 491 



Contagious Abortion in Cattle: Professor H. 

 L. EussBLL 494 



Special Articles: — 



A Counting Method for the Mechanical 

 Analysis of Soils: C. C. Fletcher. A Pos- 

 terior Communication of the Air-bladder 

 with the Exterior in Fishes: Professor 

 Edwin Chapin Starks 495 



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AMERICAN VETEBINABY EDUCATION 

 ' AND ITS PROBLEMS ' 



In analyzing the subject assigned as my 

 part of the committee's report, I became 

 deeply impressed with the responsibility 

 that rests upon those who are in a measure 

 charged with the difficult task of molding 

 a system of education for these great coun- 

 tries that will yield efficient veterinary 

 service. The first generation of veterinary 

 educators in America is rapidly passing 

 away. Its efforts were spent in meeting 

 the demands and grappling with the con- 

 ditions of a new country and there was 

 little time for it to reckon with the educa- 

 tional methods as they had developed in 

 more mature and cultured Europe. While 

 this first generation manfully battled 

 against the onslaught of disease in the rap- 

 idly increasing animal population, discov- 

 eries were being made, and methods tested 

 and put into operation, pertaining to vet- 

 erinary education and practise, of which 

 these new countries were unmindful. At 

 no time in the history of man has a genera- 

 tion witnessed greater revolutions in the 

 theories, facts and methods of a profession 

 than those which occurred in rapid succes- 

 sion in the active lifetime of Alexander 

 Liautard, Andrew Smith, Duncan McEach- 

 ran and James Law, three of whom still 

 remain as wise counselors among us. These 

 distinguished men have witnessed all that 

 has been accomplished in the acquisition of 

 definite knowledge of specific diseases, sani- 

 tary science, the introduction of the newer 



'A paper presented by the chairman of the 

 Committee on Intelligence and Education of the 

 American Veterinary Medical Association, at its 

 annual meeting, Toronto, August, 1911. 



