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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CIRCULARS PublisAed wit/i t/ie approbation oft/ze Board of Trustees VOL. 111.—No. 27.] - BALTIMORE, NOVEMBER, 1883. [PJUcE 10 CENTs. CALENDAR, 1883-84. Tuesday, September lB. Current Academic Year Began. Tuesday, September 25. Instructions Resumed. Thursday, November 29. Thanksgiving Day. Wednesday, December 5. Meeting of Scientific Association, 8 p. m. Friday, December 7. Meeting of Philological Association, 12 m. Tuesday, December II. Mr. J. T. Clarke’s Course in Archeology Begins. (See p. 16). Tuesday, December II. Meeting of Metaphysical Club, 8 p. m. Wednesday, December 19. Meeting of Mathematical Association, 8 p. m. Saturday, Dec. 22.—Wednesday, Jan. 2. Christmas Recess. Friday, June 7. Term of Instruction Closes. CONTENTS. PAGE. PAGE. Scientific Notes: Recent Publications: history and Political Science. W. K. Brooks, The Law of Lleredity.—H. B. Adams, Village II. B. ADAMS, The Seminary Method.—E. D. NEILL, Records of Communities of Cape Anne and Salem.—G. S. Morris, Philosophy the Virginia Companyand Notes on Early Maryland History, and Christianity—Sidney Lanier, The English Novel and the —A. SHAW, Icaria—A Fragment of Communistic History.— Principle of its Development—H. A. Rowland, A Plea for Pure R. T. ELY, Christian Socialism in England 2—4 Science.—R. T. Ely, French and German Socialism.—H. N. Biology. Martin, The Human Body.—Peabody Institute Catalogue, . 14, 15 W. BATESON, Abstract of Observations on the Development of Hopkins Hall Lectures: Balanoglossus.—J. P. McMuaaicn, On the Osteology and Noticeas to the Admission of the Public.—Programmc for 1883—84, 16 Development of Syngnathus Peckeanus.—H. W. CONN, An Instance of Sexual Color Variations in Crustacea.—W. H. List of Officers and Students: theHOWELLDog withand referenceF. DONALDSON,to the MaximumExperimentsVolumeupon oftheBloodHeartsentof Trustees,cademic Staff • 1715 out by the Left Ventricle in a Single Beat, etc., . 4,5 Students Fellows 1y Courtesy Fellows; Graduate Students; Philology. Members of HistoricalSeminary; Members of Chesapeake Zoolog J.—M.R. HARRIS,BLOOMFIELD,On the OnExemplarcertainofIrregularCod. CVedicin the SubjunctivesApocalypse. Summaries,ical Laboratory;etc. Matriculates; Non-Matriculates, . 18—2122 or Imperatives, . 6 Mathematics. Recent Appointments, 22 J. J. SYLvESTER, On Quaternions, Nonions, Sedenions, etc.; On Enumeration of Classes: Involutants and other allied species of Invariants to Matrix Mathematics; Physics; Biology; Chemistry; Greek; Latin; Systems.—T. CRAIG, On Quadruple Theta-Functions, 7—12 Shemitic Languages; Sanskrit, etc.; German; Romance Lan Philosophy. guages; English; History and Political Science; Philosophy, G. S. MoRRIS, The Philosophical Conception of Life, . 12,13 Logic, etc; Physical Culture; Drawing; Elocution, . 23—27 Current Information: Appointments of Societies 27 Resignation of Professor Sylvester 13 The American School at Athens 13 Consultation Hours, . 27 Correspondence: Letter from Professor Cayley, - . 13 Hours for Lectures and Recitations, . 28 Peabody Institute Lectures 13 The Circulars, Annual Report, and Register of the University will be sent by mail for $1.00 yearly. Subscriptions may be addressed to the Publication Agency, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Price of Circular, 1882-83, bound in cloth, $2.00. ~.- ~. The Johns HopJoins University Girculars are printed by Messrs. JOHN MTJRPHY ~ 00., 182 West Baltimore Street, z- more, from whom single copies may be obtained. They may also be procured, as soon as published, from Messrs. C USHJNGS ~ BAiLEY, No. 262 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore. 2 JOHNS HOPKINS [No. 2T. SCIENTIFIC NOTES On the work of Members of this University in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ancient and Modern Languages, History, Political Science, Psychology, Ethics, and Logic. COMMUNICATIONS TO THE HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. The Seminary Method, by II. B. ADAMS. the New German Empire. He himself always conducted the meetings [Abstract of a paper read at a meeting of the University Historical and Political of the Seminary. Introductory to its special work, he gave a short course Science Association, September 25, 1881]. of lecturesupon the History of Absolute Government in Prussia and upon The Seminary, like the College and University, is of ecclesiastical the influence of French and English Constitutional Reforms upon Belgium origin. Historically speaking, the Seminarium, or, as the German students and Germany. He then caused the Seminary to compare in detail the call it, the Seminar, was a nursery of theology and a training-school for Belgian Constitution of 1830 with the Prussian Constitution of 1850. Seminary priests. The modern theological seminary has evolved from Each member of the Seminary had before him the printed texts, which the mediceval institution, and modern seminary students, whether at were read and compared, while Bluntschli commented upon points of school or at the University, are only modifications of earlier types. The Constitutional Law that were suggested by the texts or proposed by the Church herself early began the process of differentiating the ecclesiastical class. After some weeks’ discussion of the general principles of Consti- seminary for secular purposes. Preachers became teachers, and the tutional Government, the Seminary, under Bluntschli’s skilful guidance, propaganda of religion prepared the way for the propaganda of science. entered upon a special and individual study of the relations of Church and The Seminary method of modern Universities is, therefore, merely the State, in the various countries of Europe, but with particular reference to development of an old institution into new uses, among which is the Belgium and Prussia, which at that time were much disturbed by conflicts professional training of historical students, and the discovery of new between the civil and the ecclesiastical power. Individual members of truth in the training process. the Seminary reported the results of their investigations and interesting At the University of Heidelberg, as elsewhere in Germany, there are discussions always followed. The result of this Seminary-work was an Seminaries for advanced training in various departments of learning, elaborate monograph by Bluntschli himself upon the Legal Responsibility chiefly, however, In Philology and in other historical sciences. The of the Pope, a tractate which the Ultramontane party thought inspired Philological Seminary, where tWo use of the Latin language for formal by Bismarck, but which really emanated from co-operative studies by discussion is still maintained at some Universities, is, perhaps, the con- master and pupils in the Heidelberg Seminary. nectin,, link between medinval and modern methods of scholastic train- Some account of methods of work in the department of History at Har- ing. In the Greek Seminary of the late Professor Koechly, at Heidel. vard College, in the University of Michigan, in the University of Wis- berg, the training was pr~eminently pedagogical. The members of the consin, and at the Johns Hopkins University, will be published in the Seminary took turns in occupying the Professor’s chair for one Philo- January number of the “University Studies in Historical and Political logical meeting, and in expounding a classical author by translation and Science,” as an introduction to the Second Series. This paper, entitled comment. After one man had thus made trial of his abilities as an “Yew Methods of Study in History “—the Special or Topical Method, instructor, all the other members took turns in criticising his perform. the Comparative, the Co-operative, and the Seminary Methods—was read ance, the Professor judging the critics and saying what had been left before the American Social Science Association at Saratoga, September unsaid. 4, 1883. In the Historical Seminary of Professor Erdmannsdoerffer the method was somewhat different. It was less formal and less pedagogical. Instead of meeting as a class in one of the University lecture-rooms, the The Records of the Virginia Company and Notes on Early Historical Seminary, composed of only six men, met once a week in a Maryland History, by EDWARD D. NEILL, Presideut of Mac- familiar way at the Professor’s own housein his private study. The even- alester College, Minnesota. ing’s exercise of two hours consistedin the critical exposition of the Latin [Abstractof a communication to the University Historical and Political Science Asso- text of a mediceval historian, the Gesta Frederici Imperatoris, by Otto, ciation, October 5, 1881]. Bishop of Freising, who is the chieforiginal authority upon the life andtimes Rev. Dr. Neill,authorof ‘Terra Mariae,” “The Founders of Maryland,” of Frederick Barharossa. As in the Greek Seminary, so here, members “English Colonization of America,” and of a “History of the Virginia took turns~ in conducting the exercises, which, however, had less regard Company,” called the attention of the seminary to two folio volumes now for pedagogical method than for historical substance. Each man had in the Congressional Library, which contain material upon the basis of before him a copy of the octave edition of Bishop Otto’s text, and the which the early history of Maryland, Virginia, and perhaps other colonies conductor of the Seminary translated it into German, with a running is yet to be reconstructed. They contain the transactions of the Virginia comment upon the subject n?Qtter, which he criticised or explained in the Company from 1619 to 1624, and