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. 



Friday, Adgust 5, 1904. 



CONTENTS: 



The State University and Research: Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Chamberlin 161 



The Mosely Educational Commission, II.: Pro- 

 fessor Henry E. Armstrong 165 



Scientific Books: — 



Ealsey's The Metric Fallacy, Dale's The 

 Metric Failure in the Textile Industry: 

 Professor W. Le Conte Stevens. Clem- 

 ents on the Development and Structure of 

 Vegetation: Professor W. F. Ganong. 

 Eakle's Mineral Tables: Professor A. J. 

 Moses 172 



Scientific Journals and Articles 178 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Neio York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. H. C. Sherman.. .. 178 



Discussion and Correspondence : — ■ 

 Asymmetron lucayanum in Bermuda: Pro- 

 fessor E. L. Mark. The Ascent of Water 

 in Trees: Professor C. R. Barnes. Con- 

 cerning Spectacles : C. R. E 179 



Special Articles: — 



The Formation of Toxic Products by Vege- 

 table Enzymes: C. A. Browne, Jr. The 

 Endosperm Enzyme of Pliwnix Dacty- 

 lifera: Dr. Raymond H. Pond 179 



Quotations : — 



The German Yellow-fever Expedition 182 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Monthly Weather Review; Ocean Meteorol- 

 °9y ; Wheat in Canada; International 

 Cloud Atlas; British Meteorological Coun- 

 cil: Antarctic Winds; Notes: Professor 

 R Dec. Ward 182 



Stomach Stones and Food of Plesiosaurs: 

 Barnum Brown 184 



The Alpine Laboratory of the Botanical Semi- 

 nar of the University of Nebraska 185 



The Cultivation of Cotton in the West Indies 186 

 Decennial Publications of the University of 



Chicago 187 



Dr. J. C. McConnell 188 



Scientific Notes and News 189 



University and Educational Neivs 192 



MSS. inteudedfor publication and books, etc.. intended 

 for review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE STATE UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH.* 

 It is the privilege of the private school, 

 the denominational institution and the in- 

 dependent university to select the phases of 

 education to which they shall devote them- 

 selves; but the appropriate sphere of a 

 state system of education is predetermined 

 by the inherent relations which the state 

 sustains. The function of all state insti- 

 tutions is the welfare of the commonwealth. 

 By first intention, the state is not con- 

 cerned with the individual, but with the ag- 

 gregate body of its citizens. The state must 

 necessarily deal with individuals, but rather 

 as integers of the aggregate body than as 

 individuals. State education, therefore, in 

 the strictest construction, and in the high- 

 est ideal, is the education of the aggregate 

 body that forms the commonwealth. Edu- 

 cation from the view-point of other institu- 

 tions may deal primarily with the indi- 

 vidual, and only secondarily with the aggre- 

 gate. State education deals primarily with 

 the aggregate, and only incidentally with 

 the individual as a constituent of the aggre- 

 gate. Obviously I am defining the ideal 

 rather than the actual fact of practice; 

 rather of the goal to be at length attained 

 than any present achievement. 



In its earliest stages, formal education 

 seems to have been altogether individual. 

 Gradually it grew to be the privilege of 

 select classes, and at length, but only at a 

 late day and among the foremost peoples, 

 it has come to be a possibility for all. 



* One of the two convocation addresse.s given 

 on the oceasion of the semicentennial jubilee of 

 the University of Wisconsin. 



