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the Board appointed by the President of the United States to 

 study and report upon the Alaskan Fur Seals during the summer 

 of 1914. The subject of this lecture was "The Fur Seal Herd of 

 the Pribilof Islands." 



2. The Common Law and the Case Method in American Uni- 

 versity Laic Schools. A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for 

 the Advancement of Teaching ; by Josef Redlich. Bulletin 

 No. 8. Pp. xi, 84. New York City, 1914. — Under the department 

 of the Carnegie Foundation devoted to Education Enquiry, sev- 

 eral important investigations have already been carried on, notably 

 that pertaining to American Medical Schools. This latest bulletin 

 presents the conclusions reached by Professor Redlich of the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna, who came to this country to study the American 

 method of the teaching of law. It is gratifying that he should 

 speak in the highest terms of American schools, finding legal edu- 

 cation here more highly developed than in England. The case 

 method, here in use, he concludes has proved itself eminently 

 successful in the training of practitioners, in part from the fact 

 that Anglo-American law is still almost entirely a law of adjudi- 

 cated cases, and hence the principal task of the practitioner is to 

 discover from scattered sources what the law actually is. This 

 method, by training the student's reasoning power, renders a 

 service that will be of great practical assistance to him in his 

 future profession. While fully recognizing the value of the case 

 method, Professor Redlich suggests that an exaggerated impor- 

 tance may be attached to it. In particular he takes issue with 

 those who would banish from the curriculum any form of lecture 

 or other dogmatic instruction ; both at the beginning and at the 

 end of the curriculum he recommends lecture courses, covering 

 phases of legal instruction which can be satisfactorily imparted 

 in no other way. He thinks also that the effectiveness of the case 

 method is endangered by the increasing size of classes, and he 

 recommends the lengthening of the law course to four years, with 

 a corresponding diminution of the time required to be spent in 

 college. 



3. Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh. — The following have recently been issued: 

 Vol. HI, No. 11. A Description of the large screw-measuring 

 Engine of the Allegheny Observatory; by Frank Schlesinger. 

 Pp. 83-97; 1 plate, 1 fig. 



No. 12. The Orbit of 88 c?Tauri; by Zaccheus Daniel. Pp. 

 93-97; 1 fig. 



No. 13. A Description of the Porter Spectrograph, and a 

 determination of the Solar Rotation; by Frank Schlesinger. 

 Pp. 99-118; 3 plates, 1 fig. 



No. 14. The Orbit of d 1 Lyrae; by Frank C. Jordan. Pp. 

 119-124; 1 fig. 



No. 15. The Spectrum and Orbit of 8 Orionis; by Frank C. 

 Jordan. Pp. 125-136; 2 figs. 



No. 16. The Orbit of R.Z. Cassiopeiae; by Frank C. Jordan. 

 Pp. 137-145; 2 figs. 



