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EVOLUTION 



May, 1932 



Scientific Advisory Board 

 Anton J. Carlson 

 Henry E. Crampton 

 Martin Dewey 

 Wm. King Gregory 

 Paul B. Mann 

 Elihu Thomson 

 Managing Editor 

 L. E. Katterfeld 



EUOLUTiON 



A Journal of Nature 



For popular education in natural science 



to combat bigotry and superstition 



and develop the open mind 



Science Editor 

 Allan Broms 



Contributing Editors 

 Edwin Tenney Brewster 

 Pauline H. Dedereh 

 Carroll Lane Fenton 

 Maynard Shipley 

 Henshaw Ward 

 Horace Elmer Wood II. 



YOU will note two additions to Evolution's editorial 

 staff. Prof. A. J. Carlson, Head of Physiology Depart- 

 ment of Chicago University, joins our Scientific Advisory 

 Board. Dr. Henshaw Ward, author of "Evolution for John 

 Doe" and "Charles Darwin: The Man and his Warfare," 

 becomes one of our Contributing Editors. Readers who know 

 Professor Carlson and Dr. Ward will already appreciate our 

 good fortune in securing their active co-operation. 



TN RESUMING publication of Evolution we wish first to 

 express our appreciation for the support of the manv 

 friends of science freedom whose contributions have made 

 this possible. We shall strive to prove that their confidence 

 was merited. We hope not only to bring Evolution out reg- 

 ularly, but to make it a still better instrument for arousing 

 a more general interest in natural science, and a more effec- 

 tive champion of science teaching against the forces of or- 

 ganized superstition. 



T7VEN if the fundamentalists made no fuss at all there 

 ■'"^ would be need and a field for a natural science journal 

 that is "easy to read" and always accurate. More research 

 work is being done now and more exploration parties are in 

 the field than ever before, and Evolution will help to pass 

 their newly-found information along. There is too great a 

 spread between what the scientific world accepts and knows, 

 and what the mass of the people understand. Evolution 

 will help to bridge this gap. We hope also that teachers 

 and scientists, busy with their specialties, will find Evolution 

 useful for its reliable information outside their own fields. 



BUT fundamentlism is neither dead nor asleep. Funda- 

 mentalist magazines are constantly agitating their readers 

 regarding the "dangers" of evolution, assuring them that 

 "real" scientists are discarding the "theory", and preparing 

 them for the promised campaign to outlaw evolution teaching 

 through popular referendum vote. This influence has tre- 

 mendous effect at present through teaching in the schools. 

 And in thousands of school administrations, as for instance in 

 Boston, medievalism is in the saddle and prevents the High 

 School biology teachers from dealing with evolution at all. 



' I 'HE only solution for this problem is general popular 

 -^ education in natural science. When a sufficient number 

 of people have some inkling of what is meant by a scientific 

 approach to a question instead of accepting opinions dogma- 

 tically handed down by authority, this situation will change. 

 There is literally no way to measure the far-reaching effect 

 that a general recognition of man's place in nature, as indi- 



cated by the fact of evolution, would have upon the endeavors 

 of the human race. It is a matter of surpassing importance. 



OVEN in these days of depression the work of popular 

 education must go on. It is needed all the more. So, 

 now that Evolution has started again, we urge every one of 

 our old readers, as well as the hundreds of new ones that 

 jtart with this issue, to become active supporters of this great 

 work. The most immediate task is to double the present 

 paid circulation of Evolution, so as to make the journal 

 self-sustaining. Please do not keep this copy to yourself, but 

 show it to your friends and secure a little club of new Evolu- 

 tion subscribers. And, if possible, also contribute a check 

 to be used in Evolution's educational campaign. 



NEW EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION 

 Perhaps the most impressive evidence for evolution is the 

 fact that so many different lines of evidence from entirely 

 independent fields of investigation all point to the same con- 

 clusion. If there was only one chain of evidence, then a 

 "missing link" might be of some importance. But this loses 

 its significance entirely in view of the multiplicity of inde- 

 pendent proofs. 



In this issue we present evidence from a comparatively 

 new field of research, about which Darwin and Huxley knew 

 practically nothing. And yet everything that is being dis- 

 covered today supports the view of these old masters, that 

 evolution is a fact. We refer to the evidence from Parasito- 

 logy in the article by Professor Robert Hegner. In our next 

 issue the article by Professor H. Gideon Wells will bring 

 more new evidence from Biochemistry. Although for some of 

 our readers it may prove rather difficult to master this mater- 

 ial, we are sure they will find it eminently worth while. And 

 perhaps it will also prove entertaining to bring this new evi- 

 dence for evolution to the attention of fundamentalist friends. 



SCIENCE CONGRESSES 



Three Science gatherings this summer will interest readers 

 of Evolution. 



American Association for the Advancement of Science at 

 Syracuse, N. Y., June 20-25. Particulars from Permanent 

 Sec'y A.A.A.S., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



International Eugenics Congress at American Museum of 

 Natural History, N.Y.C., August 22-24. Address: Third In- 

 ternational Congress of Eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



International Congress of Genetics at Ithaca, N.Y., Au- 

 gust 24-3 L Information from C. C. Little, Sec'y. Jackson 

 Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. 



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