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 Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; K. 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. L. 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, November 1, 1901. 



CONTENTS : 



The Eelations of Yale University to Letters and 

 Science: Dr. Daniel Coit Gilman 665 



The Glasgoiv 3Ieeting of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science: Professor J. 

 Playfair McMurrich 682 



Scientific Books : — 



Christian Friedrich Schonbein : Dr. H. Car- 

 RINGTON Bolton. Schulz's Die Krystallisa- 

 iion von Eiweissstoffen : Professor Lafayette 

 B. Mendel 689 



Societies and Academies : — 



Chemical Society of Washington : Dr. L. S. 

 MUNSON. New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society : Dr. John Alexander 

 Mathews. The Academy of Science of St. 

 Louis: Professor William Trelease 691 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Patagonian Personalities: F. A. B. Some Re- 

 marks on President D. S. Jordan^s Article on the 

 Geographical Distribution of Fishes: Dr. A. E. 

 Ortmann 693 



Shorter Articles : — 



Centroid of a Quadrangle : G. F. B. Effects of 

 Diminished Air-pressure on the Pulse : Henry 

 Helm Clayton 696 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. L. H 696 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 

 Dikes on Topographic Features; The Plain of 

 St. Lawrence Valley ; The Question of Peneplains : 

 Professor W. M. Davis 698 



Recent Zoo-paleontology : — 

 Fossil Reptiles of Europe ; Marshes Collection of 

 Bridger Mammalia ; Pleistocene Horses of North 

 America: H. F. O 699 



The Bicentennial of Yale University 700 



Scientific Notes and News 701 



University and Educational News 704 



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

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

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



THE RELATIONS OF YALE UNIVERSITY TO 

 LETTERS AND SCIENCE.* 



In the mediaeval convents, from which 

 our academic usages are derived, there were 

 annalists who noted the passing events. 

 Dry and meager are such records — dry and 

 meager will our annals seem unless we see 

 in them the working of principles and 

 methods during a period of two centuries. 

 It will be my endeavor to set forth the re- 

 lations of Yale to science and letters in such 

 a way that with historic insight you may 

 discover the tendency and the influence of 

 the school in which we have been trained, 

 and may thus appreciate its benefits more 

 fully than ever before. I shall not follow 

 closely the order of chronology, and under 

 the circumstances of this- address, I must 

 omit the praise of living men, however 

 richly deserved, nor can I mention many 

 of the departed, however honored and be- 

 loved. Law, medicine and theology must 

 be avoided ; ^ it is so nominated in the 

 bond.' It will be good for each one of us 

 to bear in mind the seven searching ques- 

 tions of an ancient critic — 



Quis, Quid, Ubi, Quibus auxiliis. Cur, Quomodo, 

 Quando, 



and to remember also that there is no pro- 

 cess by which we can draw forth in forty 



* An address prepared for the Bicentennial Celebra- 

 tion, New Haven, October 22, 1901. 



