SCIENCE. 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. 'Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, As- 

 tronomy ; T. C. Mexdenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Joseph Le Coxte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Marsh, Paleontology; W. K. 

 Brooks, Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Hart Merriam, Vertebrate Zoiilogy ; N. L. Britton, 

 Botany ; Henry F. Osborn, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology ; 

 J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 

 Daniel 6. Beinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, Fbbeuaey 22, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



The lAiboratori/ Teaching of Large Classes: Al- 

 PHErs Hyatt 197 



Original Jiesearch and Creative AuVwrship the Es- 

 sence of Vnirersity Teaching: Gkorge Bruce 

 Halsted 203 



The Archxology of Southern Florida : D. G. Brin- 

 tox 207 



The Earliest Generic Name of an American Deer: 

 C. Hart Mekriam 208 



James Owen Dorsey : W J >I 208 



Discussion : — 209 



On Indiscriminate ' Taking ' .• PETER T. AuSTEN. 



Scientific Literature : — 209 



Life of Richard Owen : A. S. Packard. Glaze- 

 brook's Heat, Light; Houston's Electricity: T. 

 C. M. Hygiene ; Gould's Dictionary of Medicine. 



Notes and News : — 217 



TSf International Zoological Congress; The Test- 

 ing of Electrical Street Itailways; The Minnesota 

 Academy of Natural Sciences; Anthropology ; 

 Zoiilogy; Geology; Entomology; General. 



Societies and Academies : — 220 



A. A. A. S. Meeting, ISUo ; New York Academy of 

 Sciences, Section of Astronomy and Physics ; In- 

 diana Academy of Sciences. 



Scientific Journals 224 



New Books 224 



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LABORATORY TEACHING OF LARGE 

 CLASSES.* 



Teaching maj' be subdivided into two 

 kinds : First, that wliich cultivates the fac- 



* Annual discussion before tl»e meeting of the American 

 Society of Naturalists, Baltimore, December 27, 1894. The 

 continuation of this discussion by Professors Bumpus and 

 UanoDf; will be published in the ne.\t issue of Scie>-ce. 



ulties of the individual, increasing his abil- 

 ity to work for himself and enabling him to 

 use his intellectual powers with confidence 

 in the acquisition of knowledge. Second, 

 that which disregards or takes for granted 

 that he has these powers at his command 

 and strives to increase his store of informa- 

 mation. The first process is the improve- 

 ment and building up of the intellectual 

 forces by any means that will enable them 

 to do tlieir work thoroughly and correctly, 

 and the second is practically, except in so 

 far as it can be used in carrying on the first 

 process, a load carried bj' the brain. Simi- 

 lar in fact, though not in kind, to the extra 

 fats and extra growths, of all sorts carried 

 bj' the body, it may sometimes be of ad- 

 vantage, and sometimes, when in unnatural 

 proportion, a serious and perhaps even an 

 injurious burden. 



The cultivation of the original powers of 

 the individual, of his whole mind, with, of 

 course, proper regard ibr moral and phj-si- 

 cal well-being, which are, in mj- opinion, 

 equally important and essential, is akin to 

 the treatment by which a good teacher of 

 athletics strives to improve the native 

 strength of a pupil and give the muscles 

 endurance and force, and which the young 

 gymnast himself is taught how to use to the 

 gi-eatest advantage. Tliis athletic training 

 must go hand in hand with judicious feed- 

 ing, and in the parallel processes of educa- 

 tion similar objective training must go hand 



