Friday, August 15, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 The BesponsiiiUUes of the Scientist: Dr. 

 Geobge Elleey Hale 143 



The Press as an Intermediary between the 

 Investigator and the Public: Chester H. 

 EOWELL 146 



Emil Fischer: Professor Benjamin Harrow. 150 



Scientific Events: — 



Destruction of Elephants in Cape Colony; 

 An American Hospital for Great Britain; 

 The Committee on Food and Nutrition of 

 the National Research Council 154 



Scientific Notes and News 157 



University and Educational News 161 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Fire-walking in Japan : John Hyde. March- 

 ing in Step: Warren Weaver 162 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 ParTcer's The Elementary Nervous System: 

 Professor Harry Beal Torrey 163 



Notes on Meteorology and Climatology : — • 

 Meteorology as a Subject for Study; The 

 Mild Winter of 1918-1919: Dr. Charles P. 

 Brooks 164 



lial Articles: — 

 A Possible Case of Instinctive Behavior in 

 the White Hat: Dr. Coleman E. Griffith. 166 



The Agricultural Libraries Section of the 

 American Library Association: Eunice R. 

 Oberlt 167 



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

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

 Eudson, N. Y. 



THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE 



SCIENTISTi 



Little more than two years ago, the Amer- 

 ican man of science was in his laboratory, 

 busy with the problems of research. The pos- 

 sibilities of progress were never greater, and 

 the obligation to exceptional effort, for the 

 purpose of assisting to retrieve some of the 

 heavy losses suffered by science through the 

 war, was constantly before him. But the 

 perennial attractions of research and the 

 strongest desire to advance science were insuffi- 

 cient to hold his attention. He watched with 

 indignation the piratical attacks of the sub- 

 marine, the brutal invasion of provinces and 

 states, the unspeakable horrors of the German 

 advance. Undeceived by specious pleas for 

 peace, he recognized the clear duty of the 

 United States, and chafed at repeated delays 

 when quick and determined action would have 

 saved countless lives. And when, at last, we 

 entered the wax, he eagerly grasped any 

 opportimity for service that came to him. 

 Sometimes the opportunity did not come, and 

 he then accepted the more difficult, but no less 

 obvious, duty to jjersevere in his researches 

 and thus to preserve the continuity of scien- 

 tific progress. 



The experience during the war of the man 

 of science has sometimes been confusing, and 

 it is possible that his responsibilities on the 

 return of peace will not always be clearly 

 recognized. Men who have previously devoted 

 their lives to the advancement of knowledge 

 have suddenly been called upon to solve prac- 

 tical problems, of the greatest military or in- 

 dustrial importance. In attacking these new 

 questions, they have shown remarkable powers 

 of .adaptation, and surprise has often been 



1 Eead before the Pacific Division of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 as a part of a symposium on "Scientific Educa- 

 tion in a Democracy." 



