the matter up. All this is due to the influence of the preparatory schools. For years the colleges, especially the larger and older universities, with their traditional disdain for the utilities, have sat like an incubus upon the comparatively young, progressive, and practical preparatory schools. The needed reform is coming, I believe, with us, not from above, but from below.

The work of Dr. Hermann A. Schumacher, exchange teacher from Germany, deserves special mention. In accordance with the original announcement by bulletin Dr. Schumacher has given a number of weekly talks for students registering therefor, which all members of the instructing staff of the Institute were invited to attend. I have attended a number of these talks. It is perhaps too soon to judge of their value to the Institute. Students attending them appear to be interested, and I judge therefrom that they understand and follow the lecturer. There is little or no conversation. The topics covered thus far are German Schools and Universities, the German Army, and the German Government. The attendance has averaged about twenty-eight students.

JOHN BIGELOW, Jr.

The Society of Arts.

The report of the Executive Committee of the Society of Arts of a year ago entered somewhat at length into the purposes of the Society and its relation to the Institute and the public.

During the past year twenty-one members have been dropped for non-payment of dues, nine have resigned, chiefly as the result of persistent efforts to collect dues in arrears, one has died, and two have been elected to membership. There are at present two hundred and ninety-four associate members, forty-six of whom have paid twenty or more annual assessments, and are entitled to the benefits of life membership without further payment of dues.

The attendance at the meetings has been fairly good: eighteen was the smallest and two hundred and twenty the largest audience, with fifty or sixty a fair average.

There were thirteen meetings during the winter, with talks on the following topics:-

"Chilled Car Wheels." By Mr. F. A. Beebee, Assistant Manager of the Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago.

"The Grand Canyon District." By Professor Douglas W. Johnson, of Harvard University.

"Refrigeration." By Mr. Norman H. Cheney, Chief Engineer of the Merchants Cold Storage & Freezing Company, Providence.

"Forestry." By Mr. Phillip W. Ayers, State Forester of New Hampshire. "Denatured Alcohol." By Rufus S. Herrick, Chemist, of Boston. "Ascents of Orizaba and Colima, two Mexican Volcanoes." By Professor John E. Wolff, of Harvard University.

"The Evolution of Bogoslof, a new Volcano in Behring Sea." By Professor Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., Institute of Technology.

"The Curtis Steam Turbine." By Mr. Charles B. Burleigh, of the General Electric Co., Boston.

"Recent Developments in Fire Protection Devices." By Mr. Gorham Dana, of Boston.

"The Lumière Autochrom Plates." By Mr. J. E. Brulatour, of the Lumière Co., New York.

"The Deflocculation of Non-Metallic Amorphous Bodies, with Special Reference to Graphite as a Lubricant." By Mr. E. G. Acheson, President of the Acheson International Graphite Co., of Niagara Falls.

"Factors Governing the Rates of Public Service Corporations and the Government Control of Rates." By Professor Dugald C. Jackson, Institute of Technology.

"The Quebec Bridge Disaster." By Professor George F. Swain, Institute of Technology.

For the Executive Committee,

EDMUND H. HEWINS, Chairman.
WALTER S. LELAND, Secretary.

Publications.

THE INSTITUTE.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-President's Report. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. XLIII., No. 2. 161 pp. Boston, January, 1908.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-Advanced Study and Research. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. XLIII., No. 1, Part 2. 41 pp. Boston, February, 1908.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,-Summer -- Courses. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. XLIII., No. 2, extra number. 15 pp. Boston, March, 1908.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-Register of Graduates. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vol. XLIII., No. 3. 401 pp. Boston, March, 1908.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-Programme. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. XLIII., No. 4. 381 pp. Boston, June, 1908.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-Officers of Instruction, 1908-09. Boston, November, 1908.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.-Catalogue. Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. XLIV., No. 1. 463 pp. Boston, December, 1908.

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS.

ARTHUR A. NOYES.-The Choice of a Course of Study. An address to the first-year class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Printed separately. 1907.

ARTHUR A. NOYES.-Education in Engineering and Applied Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Address at the annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Institute. Technology Review, January, 1908. Printed separately.

ARTHUR A. NOYES.-Address to the Graduating Class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Printed separately. 1908.

ARTHUR A. NOYES.-A Talk on Teaching, given at a conference of members of the Instructing Staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Science, Vol. XXVIII., No. 724, p. 657. Printed separately.

ARTHUR A. NOYES.-Address to New Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Printed separately. November, 1908.

FRANCIS R. HART.-The Attacks upon the Spanish Main by Admiral Vernon. Journal of American History, Vol. II., No. 2, 1908.

JAMES P. MUNROE.-The Commonwealth and the Institute. Technology Review, April, 1908.

JAMES P. MUNROE.-The Heart of the United States. Atlantic Monthly. September, 1908.

JAMES P. MUNROE.-The Specialist Blight on American Education. Popular Science Monthly, October, 1908.

CIVIL ENGINEERING.

GEORGE F. SWAIN.-Report on Railroad and Street Railway Bridges in Massachusetts. Report of Massachusetts Railroad Commission, January, 1908.

GEORGE F. SWAIN.-Discussion on the Teaching of Mathematics to Engineers. Science, Vol. XXVIII., September, 1908.

C. FRANK ALLEN.-Technical Education for the Profession of Railroading. Railroad Men, December, 1908.

WILLIAM E. MOTT.-Review of Gibson's "Hydraulics" and Meade's "Waterpower Engineering." Technology Quarterly, Vol. XXI., December, 1908.

GEORGE L. HOSMER and CHARLES B. BREED.-The Principles and Practice of Surveying. Vol. II., 1908.

GEORGE E. RUSSELL.-Notes on Hydraulics. Revised and enlarged edition. Boston. 1907.

LEWIS E. MOORE and GEORGE A. GOODENOUGH.-Strength of Chain Links. University of Illinois, Engineering Experiment Station, Bulletin, No. 18.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

GAETANO LANZA.-Report of the Committee on Standard Methods of Tests. Proceedings American Society for Testing Materials, 1908. CECIL H. PEABODY and EDWARD F. MILLER.-Steam Boilers. Revised edition. New York. John Wiley & Sons. 1908.

CHARLES W. BERRY.-Temperature Entropy Diagram. Revised edition. New York. John Wiley & Sons. 1908.