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something like $600 per man^ to bring a group of scien- 

 tists to its shores, hoping that some of her own particular 

 problems would and could thus be solved. 



Nearly all biologists consulted, thought that the eco- 

 nomic side of their science was of considerable, though 

 by no means of greatest, importance, and by this term 

 some included everything in the way of human relation- 

 ships. In fact, the term "human biology" is used by sev- 

 eral, as referring to the relations of man to his environ- 

 ment ; that is, to the way biology is applied to economics, 

 to medicine, to education, to sociology, and to psychology. 



In the United States, biological workers have been em- 

 ployed probably chiefly in experimental general biology, 

 and in genetics, in embryology, cytology, tissue culture, 

 and in general physiology. 



In genetics, the impetus came through the work of 

 Mendel, Weismann, and Roux in European countries, and 

 in the United States through that of Wilson and Morgan. 



J. Stanley Gardiner, of Cambridge, holds that history 

 fertilizes the scientific soil, and that there is a consider- 

 able correlation of science with any profound disturbances 

 which cover wide areas. Thus: 



"China for 6,000 years has altered very little, and 

 shows little advance. Our great advances in Europe are 

 correlated with (1) the dominance of Spain and the pro- 

 found wars in the sixteenth century ; (2) the Cromwellian 

 and other troubles in Europe of the seventeenth and early 

 eighteenth centuries; (3) the Napoleonic times and its 



