SCIENCE 



Friday, July 4, 1919 



CONTENTS 



Metlwds of securing Better Cooperation he- 

 tween Government and Laboratory Zoolo- 

 gists in the Solution of Problems of Gen- 

 eral or National Importance: Dr. H. M. 

 Smith, Proi^jissoe Henry B. Ward 1 



Medicine, a Determining Factor in War: 

 Dr. Alexander Lambert 8 



Walter Gould Davis: Professor E. DeC. 

 Ward 11 



Scientific Events: — 



The Volcanic Eruption in Java; Expedition 

 from the California Museum of Vertebrate 

 Zoology to Alasha; International Engineer- 

 ing Standardization; Besolutions of the 

 American Federation of Labor on Scientific 

 Sesearch; National Besearch Fellowships. . 13 



Scientific Notes and Neius 16 



University and Educational News 18 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Metcalf and Bell upon Salpidce: Professor 

 Maynard M. Metcalf. "Worhing up" in 

 a Sluing: Professor Arthur Taber Jones. 

 A QuicTc Method of Eliminating Seed-borne 

 Organisms of Grain: I. E. Melhus, L. L. 

 Rhodes 19 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Jellicoe on The Grand Fleet: A. M 21 



Special Articles: — ' 



Variations in the Electrical Potential of the 

 Earth: Professor Francis E. Nipher .... 23 



The Buffalo Meeting of the American Chem- 

 ical Society : Charles L. Parsons 24 



MSS. intended for 'publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



METHODS OF SECURING BETTER CO- 

 OPERATION BETWEEN GOVERN- 

 MENT AND LABORATORY ZOOL- 

 OGISTS IN THE SOLUTION OF 

 PROBLEMS OF GENERAL OR 

 NATIONAL IMPORTANCE! 



The accumulated experience of nearly fifty 

 years enables the Bureau of Fisheries to speak 

 with some degree of assurance and definite- 

 ness on relations with working zoologists of 

 the universities. 



It is a pleasure and an honor to have this 

 opportunity to refer to the nature and value 

 of those relations; to indicate the importance 

 of continuing and broadening them; and to 

 commend to less fortunate government agen- 

 cies the advantage of enlisting in their work 

 the active aid of university zoologists. 



While other government institutions may 

 have had intimate and continuous relations 

 with university zoologists, I believe there has 

 been no other federal bureau in which the 

 cultivation of such relations has been such a 

 definite and sustained policy as in the Bureau 

 of Fisheries; and I am confident that no other 

 bureau has secured more noteworthy results 

 in this way. To state that we have had every 

 reason to be well satisfied with this association 



1 A symposium before the American Society of 

 Zoologists, held at Baltimore on December 26, 1918, 

 Professor C. E. McClung presiding, included papers 

 and discussions as follows: Representing the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, Dr. L. O. Howard. Discus- 

 sion by J. G. Needham. Representing the Bureau 

 of Fisheries, Dr. Hugh M. Smith. Discussion by Dr. 

 H. B. Ward. Representing the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, Dr. B. H. Ransom. Discussion by Dr. 

 Herbert Osborn. Representing the Bureau of Bio- 

 logical Survey, Dr. E. W. Nelson. Discussion by 

 Dr. R. K. Nabours. Relation of the Council of 

 National Defense and the National Research 

 Council to the Advancement of Research, Dr. John 

 C. Merriam. 



