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. 



Editokial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; K. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeinq, 

 Astronomy ; T. C Mendenhall, Physios ; E. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Iba Remsen, Chemistry ; 

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

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Meebiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. E. 

 BE8SKY, N. L. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. 

 BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, SIarch 6, 1903. 



COX TEX T8: 



Inauyural Address of the President of the 

 Stevens Institute of Technology: Presi- 

 dent Alex. C. Humphreys 361 



The Soeiety of American Bacteriologists: Pro- 

 fessor Edwin 0. Jordan 369 



Scientific Books: — 



Jacket's Ucber verschiedene Wege phylo- 

 genetischer Enticickelung ; von Wettstein's 

 Der Xeo-Lamarckisinus und seine Bezieh- 

 ungen zum Dancinistnus: J. P. McM. 

 Baker on Munieipal Engineering and Sani- 

 tation; Zu-eblin on Anterican Municipal 

 Progress: G. C. Whipple. Julian's Text- 

 book of Quantitative Chemical Analysis: 

 H. C. B 380 



Scientific Journals and Articles 384 



.Societies and Academies: — 



The Xew York Academy of Sciences, Sec- 

 tion of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry : 

 Dr. S. a. Mitchell. Biological Society of 

 Washi)igton : F. A. Lucas. Geological So- 

 eiety of Washington: W. C. !Mendenhall. 

 The Research Club of the University of 

 Michigan: Dr. Frederick C. jSTewcombe. 

 The Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society: 

 Professor Ciias. Baskerville. The Colo- 

 rado Academy of Science: Will. C. Ferril 385 



Discussio7i and Correspondence: — 



The Publication of Rejected Xajnes: F. A. 

 Bather. Motion of Translation of a Gas 

 in a Vacuum: Dr. Peter Fireman. Will- 

 making: Professor Alexander F. Cham- 

 berlai.n- 389 



Shorter Articles: — 



Sleepy Grass and its Effect on Horses: 

 Vernon Bailey. The \ ertebral Column of 

 Brontosaurus: E. S. RiGGS 392 



The American Museum of Xatural History. . 394 



The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research 3!i5 



Scientific Xotes and Xeus 397 



University and Educational Xews 400 



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

 for review ebonld be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- 

 fessor J. McKeen Cattell, Garriaon-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



IX AUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDEXT 



OF THE STEVEXS IXSTITUTE OF 



TECHXOLOGY.* 



In subscribing to this oath of office I am 

 profoundly sensible of the responsibilities 

 I assume. 



For the two months preceding my ac- 

 ceptance of the presidency of Stevens In- 

 stitute I was constantly studying the many 

 questions involved therein, and especially 

 that of my fitness for the office. I feared 

 that it would be presumptuoiis for a man 

 not an educator by profession to undertake 

 to carry on Dr. Morton's great work; at 

 the best it seemed to me an experiment of 

 doubtful wisdom, for failure meant prob- 

 able injury to the loved alma mater as the 

 return for serious sacrifices to be made by 

 myself and those dear to me. 



In considering the objection that I had 

 not been trained as an educator, I was not 

 unmindful, on the other hand, of the fact 

 that in my professional career I had been 

 called to direct the later studies of gradu- 

 ates of engineering schools, including a 

 large number of Stevens men, and so had 

 been forced to study and appraise from the 

 viewpoint of practice, the efficiency of the 

 training supplied by a number of our tech- 

 nical schools. In this work I had found 

 myself deeply interested ; and in reviewing 

 my experiences in this and some other di- 



* Delivered in the Carnegie Laboratory of Engi- 

 neering, February 5, 1903. 



