SCIENCE. 



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Editorial Committee : S. Newcojib, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, ^rechaIlics ; E. C. Pickering, As- 

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

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

 Brooks, Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Hart Merriam, Vertebrate Zoology ; X. L. Brittox, 

 Botany ; Hexry F. Osborx, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology ; 

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

 Daniel G. Bbinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, April 12, 1895. 



CONTENTS: 



The Educational and Industrial Value of Science : 

 Henry S. Carhart 393 



Grotclh of First-born Children : FraNZ Boas 402 



Current Notes on Anthropology {V.) : D. G. Brix- 

 ton 404 



Correspondence : — 406 



A Card Catalogue of Scientific Literature : John 

 S. Billings. 



Scientific Literature ; — 408 



GeiA-iV's Great Ice Age: C. H. Hitchcock. 

 ilarshalVs Biological Lectures: H. W. Coxx. 

 Parker's Astronomy : C. A. Y. Chemislrg : ED- 

 GAR F. Smith. Bacteriology. 



Notes and News : — 416 



Typhoid Infection of Oysters ; Argon; General. 



Societies and Academies : — 418 



Biological Society of \\'a.thington. 



Scientific Journals 420 



New Books 420 



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

 for review should l>e sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garrison on Hudson, N. Y. 



Sul)scriptionsand advertisements should be sent to Scienxe, 

 « N. Queen St., Lancaster, Pa., or 41 East 49th St., New York. 



THE EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL 

 VALUE OF SCIENCE.* 



Ox the occasion of tlie formal dedication 

 of a building devoted to the teaching of sci- 

 ence, it is fitting that something should be 

 said respecting the claims of science to such 

 generous recognition and such ample provi- 

 sion for its cultivation in a j'oung univer- 

 sity, established by a Commonwealth itself 

 still ' in its teens. ' In the Atlantic States 

 the stagecoach is almost obsolete. It has 



*Read at Boulder, Col., March 9, 1895. 



given waj' to the railwaj', and it is an open 

 question whether transportation by steam 

 will not ultimately j'ield to the agile trolley 

 wheel. So the old-time college, devoted to 

 the ancient languages, mathematics, and a 

 little leaven of moral philosophy, with its 

 slow-going ways, its simple outfit of benches, 

 a teacher's desk and a chapel, has been su- 

 perseded by the modem university, with its 

 complex organization, its multiplicity of 

 courses and subjects of study, its laborato- 

 ries and equipment, and its corps of trained, 

 eager, alert instructors, w-ho are not ex- 

 pected to teach a book only, but to add to 

 the sum of human knowledge, and to 

 awaken in kindred spirits at least an en- 

 thusiasm for study, a delight in investiga- 

 tion, which has proved the most efficient 

 stimulus to high intellectual attainments. 

 The erection of the Hale Scientific Building 

 indicates that the Ilnivei-sity of Colorado 

 aims to pursue its way untrammeled by an- 

 cient traditions, with the spirit of modern 

 ideas in education, and in touch with the 

 most progressive institutions of learning. 



Shall we pause a moment to inquire what 

 has WTOught this change in the aims and 

 methods of higher education in the United 

 States? What new conditions make it 

 possible for a young university like that at 

 Chicago to forge toward the front in two or 

 three short years? I'niversities have al- 

 ways been considered as institutions of slow 

 growth. They represent the accretions of 



