SCIENCE 



Editorial Commttee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



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



Joseph Le Conte, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osborn, Paleontology ; 



W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Me-rriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. Bessey, 



N. L. Beitton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bowditch, 



Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 



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



Friday, Mat 4, 1900. 



CONTENTS: 



The 3Iedical SchooJ of the Future : Professor 

 Henry P. Bowditch 681 



National Standardizing Bureau , 696 



A Neio Enzyme of General Occurrence in Organ- 

 isms : Dr. Oscar Loew 701 



The Recent Annual Reception and Exhibition of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences : Professor J. 

 F. Kemp 702 



Scientific Books ;— 



The International Geography : Professor Eich- 

 AED E. Dodge. Stout's 3Ianual of Psychology : 

 Dr. I. Madison Bentley. Jatibert's matieres 

 odorantes artifidelles: Dr. Maeston Tayloe 

 Bogeet. Books Received 704 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Academy of Science of St. Louis: Profes- 

 sor William Trelease. The Torrey Botan- 

 ical Clui: Professor Edward S. Boegess. 

 Biological Society of Washington : F. A. LucAS, 711 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Official Spelling of Porto Rico : Dr. Eobeet 

 T. Hill. Linguistic Families in Mexico : Pro- 

 fessor O. T. Mason. Hemianopsia in Mi- 

 graine. Professor J. Mark Baldwin. The 

 Development of Photographic Plates in the Light : 

 Professor Francis E. Niphee 712 



The Topographic Survey of Ohio : Professoe Al- 

 BEET A. Weight 714 



The Archaeological Report of Ontario : Harlan 

 I. SmTH 715 



Experiment Station Exhibit at the Paris Exposition. 715 



Scientific Notes and News 716 



University and Educational News 719 



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

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

 sor, J. MeKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudspn, N. Y. 



TEE 3IEDICAL SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE.* 

 Among the intellectual movements that 

 have characterized the century now draw- 

 ing to a close there is perhaps no one more 

 deserving of careful study than that which 

 is concerned with providing education for 

 people in the school, the academy and the 

 university. The importance of popular 

 education became apparent in proportion 

 as political freedom was secured for the 

 people. Thus Viscount Sherbrooke, better 

 known as the Hon. Kobert Lowe, in the 

 reform debates of 1866 and 1867, after the 

 passage of a bill for the extension of the suf- 

 frage, uttered the well known words : " We 

 must now at least educate our masters." 

 The same sentiment has also more recently 

 been embodied in the inscription on the 

 Boston Public Library. " The Common- 

 wealth requires the education of the people 

 as the safeguard of order and liberty," 

 and in the presidential address of Dr. J. M. 

 Bodine,f at the meeting of the Association 

 of American Colleges in 1897 we find the 

 same idea thus expressed, " In America the 

 citizen is king. The king must be edu- 

 cated to wield aright his ballot-sceptre." 



For many years educators looked upon 

 their work with no little complacency. The 

 educational systems of the various civilized 



* Address by the president before the Fifth Trien- 

 nial Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons 

 given at Washington on May 2nd. 



t American Practitioner and News, June 26, 1897. 



