SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Editorial Committee : S. Nbwcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. WooDWABn, Meohanioe ; E. C. Pickkking 

 AstroDom; ; T. C Mkndenhall, PhysioB ; K. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Charles D. Walcott, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osborn, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Mkrbiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessey, N. I.. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. 

 BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, July 17, 1903. 



coy TEXTS : 



The Duty and Responsibility of the University 

 in Medical Education: Professor Henry 

 M. HiRU 65 



The yen- Definition of the Cultivated Man: 

 Prksiue.nt Charles W. Eliot 76 



Scientific Books: 



Duerden's ^Vest Indian Madrei>o>arian 

 Polyps: J. P. McM 80 



Societies and Academies: — 



Section of Anthropology and Psychology of 

 the yew York Academy of Sciences: Pro- 

 fessor James E. Lolcii. Entomological 

 Society of Washington: Eolla P. CruRiE. 81 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Grand Gulf Formation : Dr. Wji. H. 

 Dall. Answer to Professor Cockerell re- 

 garding Higher Educational Institutions 

 of AVic Mexico: Presidext W. G. Tight. 

 The Proposed Biological Station at the 

 Tortugas : E. T. Colbur.n- 83 



Shorter Articles: — 



Some of the Dangers of Formal: Dr. E. A. 

 Spitzka 87 



Quotations: — 



The American Method of Appointing Uni- 

 versity Professors : Sidney Lee 89 



Current Xotes on Meteorology: — 



The Climate of Bcnguct, Philippine Is- 

 lands: The Recent Floods; Rainfall and 

 Sunspots: Professor R. DeC. Ward 90 



The Opening of the Lake Laboratory of the 

 Ohio State University 92 



Scientific yotcs and .Yens 93 



Unii^crsity and Educational Xcirs 95 



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

 lor review should be sent to ttae responsible editor, Pro- 

 fessor I. McKejn Cattell, Garrlson-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE DUTY AyD RESPOySIBILITY OF THE 

 UyiVERSITY ly MEDICAL EDUCATIOy.' 



An experienced railway engineer once 

 told me that when about to establish a 

 grade for a line or railway across a moun- 

 tain chain he no longer started at the base 

 of the mountain and endeavored to seek a 

 practical ravine or water course through 

 which the line might be led upward to the 

 top of the di\'ide and thence down to the 

 plain below on the farther side of the 

 mountain. He had found from experience 

 that to pursue this course involved him in 

 bad grades and increased difficulties of 

 construction. This method of survey, 

 which lacked a comprehensiveness of plan 

 and breadth of detail so essential to secure 

 the best route, has been abandoned after 

 long trial and by many engineers. His 

 present method was to examine the moun- 

 tain range tirst to discover the most feas- 

 ible passage at the higher level, and when 

 he had once found it he was able to de- 

 termine with comparative ease the grades 

 recjuired to connect it with the base of the 

 mountain, and could then construct the 

 most practicable and least expensive route. 



It is my purpose to-day to urge that 

 medical education be similarly approached 

 from the vantage point of the university 

 with its lofty standards, rather than from 

 a lower point of view, with the hope that 



* Annual address to the graduating class in 

 the Yale Medical School, .Tune 2.3, 1903. 



