SCIENCE 



Friday, August 22, 1913 



CONTENTS 



The President's Address at the International 

 Medical Congress: SiK Thomas Barlow . . 245 



Cereal Cropping: Peopessob L. H. Bolley . 249 



Doctorates Conferred hy American Universi- 

 ties 259 



Scientific Notes and News 267 



University and Educational News 269 



Discussion and Correspondence: — • 



A Second Capture of the Whale Sharlc, 

 Bhineodon typus, in Florida Waters: Dr. E. 

 W. GuDGER. "Carbates" : Professor J. E. 

 Todd. Frost in California: S. A. Skinner 270 



Scientific Books: — 



Kiister's Anleitung gur Kultur der Mikro- 

 organismen: Professor C.-E. A. Win slow. 

 Catalogue of Birds' Eggs in the British 

 Museum: Dr. F. H. Knowlton. Vortrage 

 sur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften: 

 C. A. Browne 271 



Scientific Journals and Articles 274 



The Mutherfcrd Atom: Dr. Gordon S. 

 EULCHER 274 



Notes on Entomology: Dr. Nathan Banks . 276 



Special Articles: — 



Birds as Carriers of the Chestnut Blight 

 Fungus: Dr. P. D. Heald, E. A. Stud- 

 haltee. The Belation between Abnormal 

 Permeability and Abnormal Development 

 of Fundulus Eggs: Dr. J. F. McClendon 278 



Societies and Academies: — 



Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences: Charles 

 T. Kirk 281 



MSS. Intended for publication and books, 

 review should be sent to Professor J. MoKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



PBESIDENT'S ADDBESS AT THE INTER- 

 NATIONAL MEDICAL CONGBESS'- 



A WHOLE generation has passed away 

 since the International Medical Congress 

 last met in London. 



What a magnificent galaxy of talent in 

 medicine, surgery, and pathology was 

 gathered round the Prince of Wales, who 

 was our royal patron at that time ! 



It is fitting that we should follow the ad- 

 monition of. Bcelesiasticus and praise fam- 

 ous men and the fathers that begat us. 

 Our president, Sir James Paget, was a 

 great clinical pathologist. His mind was 

 stored with all that was then known of the 

 morbid anatomy of surgical disease and in- 

 jury, and of the family relationships of the 

 different diatheses. He was a splendid 

 teacher and possessed a lucid eloquence and 

 a moral fervor not excelled, by any of his 

 contemporaries. Jenner and Gull, Wilks 

 and Gairdner were our great teachers of 

 clinical medicine. Each of them based his 

 knowledge on the same foundation of the 

 post-mortem room and the hospital wards. 

 We shall not see their like again, for their 

 careers began before the days of specializa- 

 tion, and they were amongst the last of the 

 great general physicians of our time. 

 Hughlings Jackson was the philosophical 

 exponent of the new neurology. Many of 

 his forecasts were verified by the experi- 

 ments of David Ferrier, of which I may say 

 there was a remarkable demonstration at 

 the 1881 congress. Jonathan Hutchinson 

 was the patient accurate recorder of the 

 natural history of disease in multitudinous 



^ Given by Sir Thomas Barlow, Bart., M.D., 

 '.R.S., at the opening 

 London, on August 6. 



