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 CoauiiTTEE : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 

 Astronomy ; T. C- Mendenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

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

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

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

 DiTcn, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene; William H. Welch, Pathol- 

 ogy ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, July 26, 1901. 



CONTENTS : 

 The Cultural Value of Engineering Eilucntion : 



Professor Frank O. Marvin 121 



Physical Chemistry : PROFESSOR J. H. Van't 



HOFF 126 



Psychology and the 3Iedical School : PROFESSOR 



George V. N. Dearborn 129 



The Botanical Work Committee 136 



The Function of the State University : President 



R. H. Jesse 138 



Scientific Books : — 



Bigourdan on Le syst^me metrique des poids et 

 mesures : Dr. T. C. Mendenhall. Lyons on 

 Electromagnetic Phenomena : PROFESSOR M. F. 

 O'Reilly. Jordan and Kellogg on Animal 



Life: S. H. G. General 143 



Scientific Journals and Articles 149 



Societies a7id Academies : — 



The Onondaga Academy of Sciences : H. W. 



Britcher 149 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



TJie Larynx as ah Instrument of Music : Pro- 

 fessor Williabi Hallock. ' Is Larvse Conta- 

 gions?' H.S.Gaus 150 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



Glacial Corries in the Bighorn 3Iountains ; The 

 North German Lowland : PROFESSOR W. M. 



Davis 152 



Museum Reports: F. A. L 153 



The American Chemical Society 154 



Railway Time Table between the East and Denver... 156 



Scientific Notes and News 157 



University and Educational News 160 



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

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

 fessor J. McrCeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE CULTURAL VALUE OF ENGINEERING 

 EDUCATION.^ 



At the very outset of this discussion is 

 encountered a great difficulty. What is 

 culture? The writer has been asking this 

 of his friends. An answer has been sought 

 for in the printed page where is recorded 

 the best thought of the best minds. Great 

 thoughts and lofty ideals have been dis- 

 closed, but nowhere has been found a satis- 

 factory definition, a phrase or paragraph 

 that succinctl}' and clearly sets forth the 

 heart of the matter. 



People often recognize, appreciate and 

 reverence its possession without being able 

 to fully analyze and set down its elements. 

 There is something subtile and emotional 

 about it that eludes a close pursuit. 



The reason for this perhaps lies in its 

 essential individual quality, in its being 

 the result of a personal life, developed, it is 

 true, on lines similar to those used in other 

 lives, yet including something that per- 

 tains exclusively to the human unit that is 

 dififerent from all other units. 



ISTevertheless, there seem to be certain 

 fundamental qualities which must be 

 possessed before a man can be classed with 

 cultured people, qualities which are only 

 acquired after a considerable experience in 



* Address of the President of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education, Buffalo meet- 

 ing, June 29, 1901. 



