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EVOLUTION 



June, 1931 



Scientific Advisory Board 



Henry E. Crampton 

 Martin Dewey 

 W'm. King Gregory 

 Paul E. Mann 

 Clihu Thomson 



EUOLUTCON 



A Journal of Nature 



For popidar education in natural science 



to combat bigotry and superstition 



and develop the open mind 



Science Editor 

 Allan Broms 

 Managing Editor 

 L. E. Katterfeld 

 Contributing Editors 

 Edwin Tenney Brewster 

 Pauline H. Dederer 

 Carroll Lane Fenton 

 Maynard Shipley 

 Horace Elmer Wood II. 



^volution's staff of Contributing Editors is strength- 

 ened through two additional science writers: Dr. Pauline 

 H. Dederer is Professor of Zoology at Connecticut College 

 for Women and knows how to make Natural Science interest- 

 ing to beginners. Dr. Carroll Lane Fenton has taught at the 

 LJniversities of Cincinnati and Buffalo, has done field work in 

 Paleontology since 1908, is the iiuthor of 25 of the Little Blue 

 Books and of "Studies of Evolution in the Genus Spirifer," 

 just published. 



pRIENDS OF SCIENCE TEACHING should not be mis- 

 led because at the moment Fundamentalism isn't making 



much public noise. It is very active with a preparatory cam- 

 paign of ''education." Hardly an issue of the numerous fun- 

 damentalist journals appears without articles attacking the 

 teaching of evolution, purporting to disprove evolution on 

 scientific grounds or arousing the passions of readers by blam- 

 ing evolution for crime waves, wars, "flaming youth," "degen- 

 eracy of civilization," etc. Of course, parents believing this t t i -l d . n j . ii l ^l l 



' . ' ' F"'"-"" i^tin.v.i.g iii.o 1 eclinology, the Retiring President, will both be present 



nonsense become convinced that the eternal welfare of their 



THE GREATEST SCIENCE GATHERING 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 with fifteen sections and twenty-five scientific societies, will 

 meet in Pasadena, Cal., from June 15 to 20. 



Although most of this country's leading scientists are among 

 the 19,000 members of this Association it also invites to m.em- 

 bership all laymen interested in science, and many of the con- 

 vention sessions are open to the public. Readers of Evolution ' 

 will certainly find them interesting. 



Registration is at Throop Hall. Fee ^2. for non-members. 



Reception, 2 P. M. Monday, June 15, at Huntington Li- 

 brary and Art Gallery. Five evenings. Public Lectures at the 

 Greek Theatre in Griffith Park. The day-time scientific sessions 

 are at the California Institute of Technology. There will be 

 a series of symposiums, the first on "The Antiquity of Man." 



Dr. Franz Boas of Columbia University, President of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 

 Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan of the Cahfornia Institute of 



children is involved. 



The avowed purpose of fundamentalists is to force the 

 people to vote on this question in every State that has the 

 Initiative Law, and finally to control the nation. By popular 

 vote they could probably carry most of the States. If you wait 

 until they have put the question on the ballot, it is already too 

 late. Then passion and prejudice will not even hear the voice 

 of reason. The time to meet the situation is NOW. 



And the way to meet it is Popular Education in Natural 

 Science. It is possible to give the people at least enough under- 

 standing so that they will realize how foolish it is to try to 

 settle such questions by majority vote at the ballot box. YOUR 

 help, the help of every friend of science teaching, is needed in 

 this great work. 



QPPOSITION TO EVOLUTION teaching is not con- 

 fined to "backwoods," as some professors secure in the 

 serenity of their scholastic halls, seem to think. Because the 

 fact of evolution is taken for granted in all University circles 

 is no sign that it is accepted everywhere. 



Right in Boston, in the very shadow of Harvard, the influ- 

 ence of superstitious bigotry is so strong in the school adminis- 

 tration that biology teachers in the Boston High Schools are 

 not free to explain evolution to their students. In thousands 



More detailed announcements may be secured by addressing 

 Harry H. Main, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. 



RE-INFORCEMENTS WELCOME 



The irregular appearance of Evolution the last year tells 

 you more eloquently than anything we could write what our 

 situation is. We have over 5,000 paid subscribers. But to 

 "break even" we must have at least 10,000. In the meantime 

 we must raise extra funds to publish and make the necessary 

 educational campaigns. Nowadays this is somewhat difficult. 

 If you can send re-inforcements, do so now, specifying whether 

 for Founders Fund or for Library Subscriptions. 



HUXLEY ON EDUCATION 



"That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has 

 been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of 

 his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as 

 a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, 

 logic engine with all parts at equal strength, and in smooth 

 working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any 

 kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the an- 

 chors of the mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of 

 the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of 

 her operations; and who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and 

 fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigor- 



of school districts all over the country the boards are so re- ous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to^ 

 actionary that, for the sake of their positions, teachers leave the love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, 

 subject of evolution alone. and to respect others as himself." 



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