to that of our best classical colleges; for in the American system the university methods of work will begin lower down than in Germany. This is associated with our qualities as a people as compared with the Germans. The American youth of twenty-one is more independent, more self-reliant, and so far as his relation to the world is concerned, more mature than the average German student is at twenty-five. America is, of all lands, the land of protestantism; and in education, as in other things, every American is a law unto himself. This fact has its bad side as well as its good side, but is a fact nevertheless; and as educators of Americans we must take it into account. The old forms in education are passing away; the old barriers are being taken down; the old restraints are being removed or relegated to the days of boyhood and girlhood. All this we can see, for it takes place before our eyes; it is taking place under our hands, and this whether we wish it or not. The college boy is becoming a man, and the college woman now stands beside him. Not all are ready for freedom, perhaps, who have freedom thrust upon them. There are not a few students to whom an enforced discipline is the only road to scholarship. But with all imaginable drawbacks our college work in America yields every year better results than it has ever yielded before. We may be sure that in the future, even more than in the past, the American college, the American university, will stand in the front rank of civilizing influences. APPENDIX. LIST OF THE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS OF 1873 TO 1887. 1873. American Naturalist, February, I. THE COLORS OF VEGETATION. 1873; pp. 65-70. 2. HOOF-ROT IN SHEEP. Prairie Farmer, 1873. 1874. 3. A POPULAR KEY TO THE BIRDS, REPTILES, BATRACHIANS, AND FISHES OF The Northern United States east OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Appleton, Wis., May, 1874; pp. 100. (Jordan and Van Vleck. Balfour H. Van Vleck, Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Boston, Mass.) 4. THE FLORA OF PENIKESE ISLAND. Amer. Nat., April; pp. 193 197. 5. A KEY TO THE HIGHER ALGE OF THE ATLANTIC COAST BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLAND AND FLORIDA. Amer. Nat., July and August, 1874. 1875. 6. THE SISCO OF LAKE TIPPECANOE. Amer. Nat., March, 1875; pp. 135-138. 7. THE SISCO OF LAKE TIPPECANOE AND ITS RELATIVES. Rept. Geol. Surv., Indiana, for 1875. 8. A SYNOPSIS OF THE FISHES TO BE LOOKED FOR IN INDIANA. Rept. Geol. Surv., Indiana, for 1875. 1876. 9. THE GENUS POMOXYS RAFINESQUE. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1876; pp. 68-71. (Jordan and Copeland. Herbert Edson Copeland, Indianapolis, Ind.) 10. CONCERNING THE FISHES OF THE ICHTHYOLOGIA OHIENSIS. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist., 1876; pp. 91-97. 11. MANUAL OF THE VERTEBRATES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES, including the District east of the Mississippi River and north of North Carolina and Tennessee, exclusive of Marine Species. Chicago, 1876; June. 12. JOHNNY DARTERS. Amer. Nat., June, 1876; pp. 335-341. (Jordan and Copeland.) 15. A STORY OF A STONE. St. Nicholas, February, 1877; (reprinted in Indiana School Journal, Sheldon's Fourth Reader, and elsewhere.) 16. CHECK LIST of the Fishes of the Fresh Waters of North AMERICA. Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist., II., 1876; pp. 133-164; February, 1877. (Jordan and Copeland.) 17. ON THE FISHES OF NORTHERN INDIANA. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, June, 1877; pp. 42-82. 18. ON THE GENERA OF NORTH AMERICAN FRESH-WATER FISHES. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1877; pp. 83-104. (Jordan and Gilbert.) 19. A PARTIAL SYNOPSIS OF THE FISHES of Upper GeoRGIA. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., New York, vol. xi., 1876; pp. 307-377. June, 1877. 20. CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY, I. Review of Rafinesque's Memoirs on North American Fishes. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX., 1877; p. 53. 21. CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY, II. A. Notes on Cottida, Etheostomatida, Percida, Centrarchida, etc., with Revisions of Genera and Descriptions of new or little known Species. B. Synopsis of the Siluride of the United States. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., X., 1877; pp. 116. 22. ON LAGOCHila, a new GENUS OF CATOSTOMOID FISHES. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 1877; pp. 280-283. (Jordan and Brayton. Alembert Winthrop Brayton, M.D., Indianapolis, Ind.) 23. ON THE DISTRIBUTION of Fresh-WATER FISHES. Amer. Nat., October, 1877; pp. 607-613. 1878. 24. ON THE DISTRIBUTION of Fresh-Water Fishes OF THE UNITED STATES. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., I., 1877; pp. 92–120; 1878. 25. A CATALOGue of the FisHES OF ILLINOIS. Bull. Illinois Lab. Nat. Hist., II., Bloomington, Ill., June, 1878. |