SCIENCE 



rRiDAY, August 8, 1919 



CONTENTS 



Problems of Population of the North Pacifio 

 Area as dependent upon the Biology, the 

 Oceanography an-d the Meteorology of the 

 Area: Professor Wm. E. Bitter 119 



Some Necessary Steps in my Attempt to 

 prove Insect Transmission or Causation of 

 Disease: W. Dwight Pierqe 125 



Tlie V. S. Food Administration's War Flour: 

 De. Harry Snyder 130 



Edward Coivles: President G. Stanley Hall. 132 



Scientific Events: — 



Game Conservation in Canada; A Collection 

 Boat for the New Tori: Aquarium; Th^ Na- 

 tional Research Council and the Boolcefeller 

 Foundation; The Patron's Medal of the 

 Boyal Geographical Society 133 



Scientific Notes and News 135 



University and Educational News 137 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Three Fourths of an Octave farther in the 

 Ultra-violet: Professor R. A. Millikan 

 AND E. A. Sawyer. The Problem of the 

 Boy in the Swing: Professor Henry Crew. 138 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



The Evolution of the Earth and its Inhabi- 

 tants: Dr. Eoy L. Moodie 140 



Special Articles: — 



A Practical Long-period Seismograiph: Dr. 

 Arnold Eomberg 141 



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

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



PROBLEMS OF POPULATION OF THE 

 NORTH PACIFIC AREA AS DEPEND- 

 ENT UPON THE BIOLOGY, THE 

 OCEANOGRAPHY, AND THE 

 METEOROLOGY OF THE 

 AREAi 



For long ages before written records began, 

 human migrations seem to have taken place 

 over the vast Pacific region. These appar- 

 ently affected the islands of the south, those 

 of the north, and those of the the middle por- 

 tions, as likewise the continental littorals of 

 Asia and North America. Later came the 

 era, very recent as all human history goes, of 

 the drifting of Chinese and Japanese fishing 

 junks upon the northern American coast, and 

 of castaway Japanese traders upon the Mex- 

 ican coast. Following this came the truly 

 modern era, ushered in, one may fairly say, 

 by President Fillmore's appeal to the Emperor 

 of Japan, through the Perry embassy, for the 

 opening up of the Hermit Kingdom in the 

 interest of American industrial and commer- 

 cial development as represented by the whale 

 fishery, and closely identified with gold mining 

 in California. Shortly thereafter, followed 

 the bringing of Chinese coolies for labor in 

 building the Pacific end of the first transcon- 

 tinental railroad. 



Through all these, and many other events 

 of similar import, on down to this very sum- 

 mer of 1919, when hardly a day passes in 

 which the newspapers do not contain items of 

 some sort involving the activities of Japanese 

 or Chinese in the industrial and commercial 

 life of Pacific North America, can be seen a 

 contact of Asiatics and Americans — a kind of 

 community of interests — made not only pos- 



1 The opening paper of a symposium on ' ' The 

 exploration of the North Pacific Ocean," held at 

 the Pasadena meeting, Pacific Division, American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, June 

 19, 1919. 



