SCIENCE 



Feidat, December 1, 1911 



CONTENTS 



Inaugural Address of the President of the 

 University of Minnesota: President Geoege 

 E. Vincent 733 



The New Zoological Laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania: Professor Thomas 

 H. Montgomery, Je 742 



The Chemist as a Conservationist: Professor 

 E. H. S. Bailey 748 



Cyrus G. Pringle: George P. Burns 750 



The Inauguration of Thomas Edward Bodges 

 as President of West Virginia University: 

 A. M. E 751 



The South Kensington Solar Physics Observa- 

 tory 753 



flc Notes and News 753 



and Educational News 759 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Use of Sodium-ienzoate as a Preserva- 

 tive of Food : Peofessor Graham Lusk. A 

 Few Mathematical Errors in the Beoent 

 Edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica: 

 Professor G. A. Miller. More Washing- 

 ton Science: A Former Washingtonian. 

 Columiia and Berlin: Pkopessob Eudolp 

 TOMBO, Jr 759 



Scientific Books: — 



Crampton's The Doctrine of Evolution : Pro- 

 fessor W. E. Kellioott. Lloyd on Guayule : 

 Professor J. E. Kiekwood. Lacroix's Les 

 syenites nepheliniques de I'Archipel de Los 

 et leurs mineraux: George F. Kunz. Brig- 

 ham on the Mailing of Bark Cloth in 

 Eawaii: De. Wm. H. Dall 764 



The Annual Beport of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution : 768 



Special Articles: — 



Cestode Cells in Vitro: Propessoe M. W. 

 Morse 770 



AISS, intended fot publication and boolcs, etc., intended for 

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

 Hudson, N. Y, 



INAUGUBAL ADDBESS OF THE PRESIDENT 

 OF THE UNIVEBSITT OF MINNESOTA'- 



The ceremonies of this hour mark not so 

 much the coming of a man as the beginning 

 of a new phase in the life of the university. 

 In the sweep of time most men are merged 

 in the on-going human tide. It is wise, 

 therefore, to look beneath the formal and 

 the personal; to ask what this occasion 

 really means or what it ought to mean. 



Of one thing there can be no doubt. 

 This day sees the passing of a personal 

 leadership, although happily not the wan- 

 ing of that personal influence. Not all 

 mortals are destined to be engulfed in the 

 nameless millions of mankind. A few out- 

 standing men can not be forgotten. "An 

 institution," said Emerson, "is but the 

 lengthening shadow of one man." Min- 

 nesota, in this sense, will be the lengthening 

 shadow of Cyrus Northrop. Such unity as 

 the university has found is due almost 

 wholly to the fusing power of his winning 

 and guiding personality. The university 

 stands a living tribute to the quick sym- 

 pathy, humorous tolerance, harmonizing 

 tact, alert intelligence and moral earnest- 

 ness of its president emeritus. He had to 

 convince an often skeptical outside public; 

 he had to moderate and adjust keen rival- 

 ries within the institution. Colleges and 

 departments sought their own ends with 

 only a faint glimpse of the university as a 

 whole. As he lays down the burden of 

 twenty-seven years he leaves the institution 

 firmly grounded in the good will of the 

 people, and unified by the loyalty of fac- 

 ulty, alumni and students. We should 



' From the Minnesota Alumni Weekly. 



