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. 



Friday, January 13, 1905. 



CO'NTE'NTS: 



Academic Ideals: Professor R. S. Woodward 41 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 The Present State of Geodesy: 0. H. 



TiTTMANN 46 



Future Developments in Physical Chem- 

 istry: Professor Wilder D. Bancroft. ... 60 



Reports of Committees 59 



Scientific Books: — 



Granville on the Differential and Integral 

 Calculus: Professor James Pierpont. 

 Venable on the Study of the Atom: E. T. 

 Allen 04 



Societies and Academies : — 



Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences: Professor 

 James F. Kemp, Dr. E. 0. Hovey. Tlte 

 Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 Charles K. Wead. Michigan Ornitholog- 

 ical Club: A. W. Blain, Jr 66 



Discussio7i and Correspondence: — 



Interesting and Important Facts: G. K. 

 Gilbert. Specialisation, Ignorance and 

 Some Supposed Palliatives: Dr. Francis 

 B. Sumner. Ultra-Violet Light in Photo- 

 microscopy: Dr. Clifford Richardson. 

 Hoio does Anopheles Bite? Professor John 

 B. Smith 68 



Special Articles: — 



Discussion in the British Parliament on the 

 Metric Bill: William H. Seaman 72 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — • 



Temperatures in the Free Air ; Bad Weather, 

 Good Roads and Farmers ; Monthly Weather 

 Review; No Secular Change of Climate in 

 Tripoli; Climaiic Changes in the Lake 

 Chad Region; Kite Meteorology over Lake 

 Constance: Professor R. DeC. Ward 75 



First Observations with ' Ballons-Sondes ' in 

 America 76 



Scientific Notes and News 77 



University and Educational News 80 



MSS. iuteuded for puhlieatiou aud books, etc.. intended 

 for review should be sent to ttie Editor of Science, Garri- 

 3on-on-Hndson, N. Y. 



ACADEMIC IDEALS.'' 

 The beginning of an academic year calls 

 up at once the lighter thoughts of pleasing 

 associations and the graver thoughts of in- 

 spiring obligations. Here on the table- 

 land of intellectual life youth and age 

 meet to labor for a season in the fields of 

 knowledge and discovery. The confident 

 optimism of youth seeks to be chastened 

 by the gentle admonition of experience. 

 Youth imparts its buoyancy to age, age im- 

 parts its wisdom to youth, and both are 

 kindled by the glow of elevating aspira- 

 tions. It is a time, therefore, for a blend- 

 ing of our lighter and our graver reflec- 

 tions. 



Being delegated for the moment to speak 

 to and for this academic body, it has seemed 

 that some considerations on academic ideals 

 might serve to awaken thought and to 

 arouse zeal appropriate to the occasion. 

 In the abstract, however, this would appear 

 to be a delicate and a difficult sub.jeet; 

 delicate because of diversity of sentiment, 

 and difficult because of diversity of .iudg- 

 ment, amongst those best qualified to 

 speak, as to what academic ideals are, or as 

 to what they should be. Hence it may 

 seem fitting at the outset to suggest appli- 

 cation to the views here set forth of the 

 Soeratic caution that they can hardly be 

 exactly as represented, if not the more 

 sweeping caution of Marcus Aurelius— 

 'Remember that all is opinion.' But the 

 delicacy and the difficulty of the subject 



* Address read on the occasion of the opening 

 exercises of Columbia University, September 28, 

 1004. 



