Friday, August 1, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 The Good Engineering Teacher, his Person- 

 ality and Training: Professor Wm. T. 

 Magruder 137 



Practical Work in Science Teaching: Pro- 

 fessor Dexter S. Kimball 144 



The Mining Congress and Exposition in 

 Philadelphia 149 



Memorial to Sir William Logan 150 



Scientific Notes and News 150 



University and Educational News 154 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Word " Selva" in Geographic Litera- 

 ture: President J. C. Branner. Does a 

 Low Protein Diet produce Racial Inferi- 



■ ority: H. H. Mitchell. The Spirit of 

 Agricultural Education: A. N. Hume. The 



. Tariff on Books: Professor Alfred C. 

 Lane 155 



Scientific Books: — 

 Miller's Catalogue of the Mammals of 

 Western Europe: De. J. A. Allen. Hcrms 

 on Malaria, its Cause and Control: Dr. 

 Frederick Knab 159 



Special Articles: — 



. The Oriental Cycads in the Field: Pro- 

 fessor Charles J. Chamberlain 164 



The Society for the Promotion of Engineer- 

 ing Education 167 



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

 reyiew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE GOOD ENGINEERING TEACHER, HIS 

 PERSONALITY AND TRAINING^ 



At the meeting of Section E on Engi- 

 neering Education of the World's Engi- 

 neering Congress which was held in Chi- 

 cago in 1893 in connection with the "World's 

 Columbian Exposition, there were as- 

 sembled "seventy or more" engineering 

 educators from the United States and eight 

 or more foreign countries. This society 

 owes its existence to the congress and to 

 the thought and labors of Professor Ira 0. 

 Baker, chairman of the Division Com- 

 mittee, and Professor C. Frank Allen, its 

 secretary p7-o tern. Of the seventy charter 

 members, twenty-nine have either gone to 

 their reward or have withdrawn from the 

 society. Only forty-one of the seventy are 

 now members of the society. Eleven of the 

 living past-presidents are charter mem- 

 bers, three became members in 1894, and 

 one each in 1895, 1897 and 1902. That was 

 twenty years ago. Some of us are no 

 longer boys, even if we do feel as young and 

 as full of enthusiasm as we did then. If 

 time and your patience permitted it, and I 

 were able, it would delight me to recall in 

 great detail the lives and examples of some 

 of the giants in engineering education 

 whose successors we are — of the cultured 

 Thurston, of that dynamic giant, DeVolson 

 Wood, of that inventive genius, Robinson, 

 of the courtly Chanute, of the erudite John- 

 son, and of the versatile Storm Bull. I 

 offer you my congratulations on being al- 

 lowed to follow where they have led the 

 way. 



But after twenty years of this society's 



' Address of the President of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education. 



