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. 



Kditokial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodwakd, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeking, 

 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- 

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

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



Friday, October 4, 1901. 



CONTENTS : 



The Proposed National University : The Hon. John 

 W, Hoyt 505 



Address of the President of the Physiological Section 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science : PROFESSOR John G. McKendeick.. 517 



Data on Song in Birds : WILLIAM E. D. ScOTT... 522 



The Botanical Society in America : Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal 526 



The American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science : — 



Fellows Elected at the Denver Meeting 527 



Scientific Books : — 

 Diplodocus Marsh : Professor Henry' F. Os- 

 born. Porter's Introduction to Physiology : G. 

 N. I. S. Forsyth's Theory of Functions of a Com- 

 plex Variable: PROFESSOR THOMAS S. FiSKE... 531 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Preglacial Drainage in Southwestern Ohio : PRO- 

 FESSOR ARTHUR M. Miller. A Post-graduate 

 School of Bibliography : Aksel G. S. Joseph- 

 SON .534 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 536 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 

 Physiographic Geology ; Glacial Lakes in Minne- 

 sota ; Esker Lakes in Indiana ; The Ontario 

 Coast ; Glacial Corries in the Carpathians : PRO- 

 FESSOR W. M. Davis 537 



Shorter Articles : — 



Definitions of Physical Quantities: Professor 



F. Slate 538 



The British Association for the Advancement of 



Science 539 



The French Association for the Advancement of 



Science 540 



Scientific Notes and News 541 



University and Educational News 544 



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

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

 fessor J. McKcen Uattell, GaTrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE PROPOSED NATIONAL UNIVERSITY* 

 The paper by Hon. Chas. D. Walcott, 

 Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 published in Science for June 28, 1901, 

 then issued in a separate pamphlet, and now 

 kindly brought to my notice by the author, 

 disposes of the National University move- 

 ment in the following summary' manner : 



But Congress has always looked on the scheme 

 with suspicion, and not one of the various bills 

 offered was ever acted upon by the Senate and House 

 of Representatives. The trend of opinion has been 

 and is that the Government should not found a 

 National University in the sense suggested by Wash- 

 ington and his followers. 



At first I thought to let these state- 

 ments pass without notice, believing that 

 in course of time they would correct 

 themselves. But on reflection I con- 

 clude to make a comprehensive review of 

 them, as also some comments on the 

 ' Memorial ' scheme so fully set forth in 

 connection therewith, and finally to point 

 out some of the special functions of the 

 proposed National University which so 

 deeply concerned Washington, but which 

 seem never to have been duly considered 

 by those now engaged in promoting an 

 enterprise which its projectors intend shall 

 defeat the establishment of such university 

 altogether. 



* A review of Hon. Chas. D. Walcott's paper on 

 ' Relations of the General Government to Higher 

 Education and Research.' 



