SCIENCE 



Friday, December 8, 1911 



CONTENTS 

 The Function and Efficiency of the Agricul- 

 tural College: Professor W. H. Jordan . . 773 



A Study of Retardation in the Schools of Min- 

 nesota: F. E. LuRTON 785 



An Anthropological Survey of Canada: Dr. 

 Edward Sapir 789 



The Museum of Anthropology of the Univer- 

 sity of California 794 



Scientific Notes and News 794 



University and Educational News 799 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Francis Galton Lalioratory for National 

 Eugenics: Professor Karl Pearson. An 

 Early Discussion of Heredity: Professor 

 B. C. Punnett. Note on the Ohio Placo- 

 derm Dinichthys terrelli: Professor Bash- 

 ford Dean. The Number of Students to a 

 Teacher in State Colleges and Universities : 

 President George E. Vincent, Dean E. 

 A. BiRGE, Professor Charles Hart Hand- 

 SCHIN 799 



Quotations : — 



The Proposed Eeform of the Calendar .... 803 



Scientific BooTcs: — ■ 



Graebner's Methode der Ethnologic: Pro- 

 fessor Franz Boas. Barshberger's Phyto- 

 geographic Survey of North America: Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Bessey 804 



Tick {Ixodoidea) Generic Names to be in- 

 cluded in the "Official List of Zoological 

 Names: Dr. Ch. Wardell Stiles 812 



The National Academy of Sciences 812 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Sciehce. Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y, 



THE FUNCTION AND EFFICIENCY OF THE 

 AGEICULTUEAL COLLEGE 



It would be an indication of ingratitude 

 and inappreciation if I failed to acknowl- 

 edge at this time the great honor of being 

 elected to preside over your deliberations, 

 an honor commensurate with the distin- 

 guished history and eminent usefulness of 

 this association. Because it has been my 

 good fortune to attend these meetings from 

 their very beginning, in addressing you on 

 this occasion I can not be accused of speak- 

 ing without knowledge and understanding 

 if at first I refer in the spirit of congratu- 

 lation to the benefits of this organization, 

 both for those of us who have participated 

 in its deliberations and for the institutions 

 which it represents. 



Not the least important outcome of these 

 assemblages are the personal relations that 

 have been established. The hand clasp 

 that has spanned a continent has not only 

 made possible the formation of friendships 

 that have greatly enriched our lives, but 

 thereby has come a sympathetic touch of 

 laborers in the same field so essential to- 

 unity of purpose and understanding. We 

 would all feel impoverished, personallj^ and! 

 ofiicially, if there were withdrawn from the 

 sum of our life experiences the beneficent 

 results of the intercourse that these meet- 

 ings have afforded. 



Because we are friends as well as co- 

 workers, we keenly feel the absence from 

 our midst of those who have passed out of 

 life's activities. Two of the best beloved 

 of our long-time associates have entered 

 into their final rest during the year that 

 has passed. For many years these gather- 



