SCIENCE 



Feidat, November 7, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 A System of Cooperation between the College 

 and Industry: Dr. Egbert H. Bogue 425 



TTie Digestibility of the Branny Coats of 

 Wheat : Charles H. Beigos 427 



The Introductory Course in Zoology: Pro- 

 TESSOB George Lepbvre 429 



Scientifio Events: — 

 Changes in the French Population in 1918; 

 A Pueblo Buin in New Mexico; The Ameri- 

 can Congress of Surgeons 431 



Scientifio Notes and News 433 



University and Educational News 434 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Natural Field Sanitation in China: Ather- 

 TON Lee. a Method of Embedding in 

 Paraffine : Dr. Leo H. Schatz 435 



Quotations: — 

 Scientific and Industrial Besearch 436 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Smith and Cheshire on Constructional Data 

 for Small Telescope Objectives: Professor 

 Henry S. White 437 



Special Articles: — 



Electrolytes and Colloids: Dr. Jacques 

 LoEB 439 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Charles 

 L. Parsons 441 



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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



A SYSTEM OF COOPERATION 



BETWEEN THE COLLEGE 



AND INDUSTRY 



Much has been written in recent months 

 pointing- out in unmistakable terms the value 

 of chemical research to industrial companies 

 and organizations. There has been described 

 an enormous number of problems within the 

 range of chemistry and chemical engineer- 

 ing, which are at present confronting the in- 

 dustrial world or which, by their solution, 

 would vastly enhance the efficiency of their 

 processes or the marketability of their prod- 

 ucts.i Many papers have discussed the meth- 

 ods by which such investigational work might 

 be introduced; some going into much detail 

 as to the establishment of departments of 

 chemical research within the industrial plants 

 themselves,^ and others revealing the advan- 

 tages which would obtain by causing these 

 several investigations to be studied in central- 

 ized laboratories of industrial Eesearch.^ 

 Still others have pointed out the advantages 

 to the industrial organizations of permitting 



1 Duncan, "The Chemistry of Commerce," No. 

 Amer. Bev. (1907), 241, and "Some Chemical 

 Problems of To-day," ibid. (1911), 224. Hamor, 

 ' ' The Value of Industrial Research, ' ' Scientific 

 Monthly, 1-86 (1915), and "The Research Coup- 

 let," ibid., 6-319 (1917). Bacon, "The Re- 

 muneration of Industry by Research," Sci. Am., 

 116-281 (1917). Bacon and Hamor, "Some 

 Present-day Problems of Chemical Industry," J. 

 Ind. Eng. Chem., 11, 470 (1919). 



- Mees, ' ' Planning a Research Laboratory for 

 and Industry," J. Ind. Eng. Chem., 10, 476 (1918). 



3 Bacon, ' ' The Industrial Fellowships of the 

 Mellon Institute," ibid., 11, 371 (1919). Sym- 

 posium on "An Institute for Cooperative Research 

 as an Aid to the American Drug Industry, ' ' ibid., 

 11, 59; 11, 157; 11, 377 (1919). Annual Report 

 of the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific 

 and Industrial Research of Canada, March 31, 

 1919, Canadian Ofacial Record, August 7, 1919. 



