SCIENCE 



Friday, July 11, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 University Education in London: Professor 

 F. P. Mall 33 



The Optical Activity of Petroleum and its 

 Significance: Professor W. F. Bushong . 39 



An Ascent of the Snow Mountains of New 

 Guinea: Professor A. C. Haddon 4-1 



Scientific Notes and News 45 



University and Educational News 47 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Complexity of the Mioroorganic Pop- 

 ulation of the Soil: Professor L. H. 

 BoLLET. Fowlerina Eigenmanni a preoccu- 

 pied Generic Name: Henkt W. Fowler. 

 The Blowing of Soils: Albert B. Eeagan. 

 Mosquitoes Pollinating Orchids: C. S. 

 Crandall. Plus and Minus Again: Pro- 

 fessor Florian Cajori. An Institute for 

 Bibliographical Sesearch: Aksel G. S. 

 JOSEPHSON 48 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Secent Books on Physics: Professor G. F. 

 Hull. Pfeiffer's Die Steinzeitliche Tech- 

 nick: Dr. Walter Hough. MUnsterherg's 

 Psychology and Industrial Efficiency: Pro- 

 fessor H. L. HOLLINGWORTH 53 



Special Articles: — 



The Emission of Electrons from Tungsten 

 at High Temperatures: Professor O. W. 

 Eichardson. Mendelian Inheritance of 

 Epidermal Characters: Eichakd Welling- 

 ton. Powdery Scab of Potatoes in the 

 United States : W. J. Morse 57 



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

 reriew should be sent to Proteesor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrisoa- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



UNIVEBSITT EDUCATION IN LONDON^ 



Probably no document of greater im- 

 portance to medical education, and to uni- 

 versity education in general, has appeared 

 in recent years than the report just issued 

 by the Royal Commission. This commis- 

 sion, appointed by Edward Seventh, con- 

 sidered the organization and extension of 

 the various institutions of higher education 

 in London to constitute the new University 

 of London. Its reports and extensive sup- 

 plements have been published from time to 

 time, and the parts which deal with med- 

 ical education have been followed with in- 

 terest by medical men in both Great Britain 

 and America. 



The appointment of the Royal Commis- 

 sion was not the beginning of the move- 

 ment for reform of the educational insti- 

 tutions in London; it was rather the cul- 

 mination of a long agitation which arose 

 from several motives supported by differ- 

 ent bodies and persons. It was only after 

 the failure to secure the support of the 

 university senate and convocation that the 

 alternative course of applying directly to 

 the crown for a charter establishing a new 

 university altogether was adopted. The 

 movement which led to this petition arose 

 from the medical teachers who applied for 

 a charter empowering them to confer de- 

 grees. From the point of view of univer- 

 sity reform there was not much to be said 

 for a proposal for substituting one exam- 

 ining body for another with the express 

 ' Pinal report. T. Fisher Unwin, London, W. C. 

 1913. Price 2 shillings. The article was prepared 

 as a review of the report of the commission, but 

 in view of the importance of the subject and its 

 interest to American men of science, it is printed 

 as a leading article. — Editor. 



