SCIENCE 



Friday, Septembee 26, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 A New Opportunity in Science: PROrESSOR 

 B. A. MiLMKAN 285 



Chemistry in the Navy: Eeak Admiral 

 Balph Eaele 298 



Scientific Events: — 



The Welsh University and the Welsh Na- 

 Uonal Medical School; Conference on the 

 Organisation of Beseareh in England; The 

 American Ceramic Society 299 



Scientific Notes and News 301 



University and Educational Neivs 303 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Births and Beatlis in the Civil Population of 

 France in the War-time : Professor Vernon 

 Kellogg. Instinctive Behavior in tlie 

 White Bat : Professor B. W. Kunkel. An 

 Earlier Snow Effect : Dr. Benjamin Frank- 

 lin Yannet 304 



Quotations : — 

 The Army and Science 306 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Keith's Menders of the Maimed: De. T. 

 WiNGATE Todd 307 



The Progress of Undergraduate Beseoirch in 

 Medical Schools 308 



Special Articles: — 



Complete Beversal of Sex in Hemp: Dr. 

 John H. Schaffneb 311 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE NEW OPPORTUNITY IN SCIENCEi 



Since I had the good fortune to be some- 

 what intimately associated with many 

 phases of scientific development work in this 

 country in aid of the war, and also had ex- 

 ceptional opportunity, through reports 

 which came weekly from the scientific at- 

 taches in London, Paris and Rome, to be- 

 come familiar with similar developments in 

 Europe, you will expect me to see the new 

 opportunity in science in situations created 

 by the war or in lessons taught by it. 

 That expectation I shall endeavor not to dis- 

 appoint. I shall accordingly introduce my 

 subject by a brief review of the most note- 

 worthy features of the methods employed 

 and the results obtained in applying science 

 to the needs of the great war. 



That you may be under no misapprehen- 

 sion, however, regarding the importance of 

 the role which I myself have played in these 

 events let me begin with an incident of the 

 summer of 1917. It was in the last week in 

 March, 1917, that I gave up my academic 

 duties and was called to Washington as 

 vice-chairman of the National Research 

 Council, charged particularly with the task 

 of assisting in mobilizing the scientific men 

 and the scientific facilities of the United 

 States in aid of the war which was clearly 

 coming, although it had not yet been de- 

 clared. During the hectic months of the 

 spring of 1917, when the civilian activities 

 in aid of the war were directed by the 

 Council of National Defense in the Munsey 

 Building, I represented the Research Coun- 

 cil upon the old Munitions Board and also 



1 A lecture given on July 25 before the summer 

 Bession of the University of Chicago. 



