SCIENCE 



Friday, November 28, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 The Historical Point of View in the Teaching 

 of Science: Professor G. A. Miller 489 



The Singing Sands of LaJce Michigan: W. D. 

 Richardson 493 



Scientific Events: — 

 The House of Joseph Priestley; Civil Service 

 Examinations; Salaries at Tale University ; 

 Crystallographical and Mineralogical So- 

 ciety of America; The American Society of 

 Zoologists; the Section of Geology of the 

 American Association; The Secretaryship of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science 495 



Scientific Notes and News 499 



University and Educational News 500 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Atmospheric Pollution: A. M. Carotinoids 

 as Fat Soluble Vitamine: Dr. Lerot S. 

 Palmer 501 



Scientific Articles: — 



Wound Healing in Experimental (Cellfibrin) 

 Tissue : Dr. Leo Loeb 502 



The American Chemical Society: De. Charles 

 L. Parsons 505 



The American Astronomical Society: Dr. Joel 

 Stebbins 507 



MSS. intended for publication and booke, etc., intended for 

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW IN 

 THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE^ 



The teachers of Missouri should take 

 special interest in the history of science at 

 the present time in view of the fact that the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science is expected to meet soon in this 

 state and the question of forming a special 

 section of this association for the purpose of 

 considering topics in the history of science 

 is to be raised during this meeting. Teachers 

 of mathematics have an additional reason for 

 taking an unusually keen interest in this 

 subject just now in view of the appearance 

 during the past summer of two very impor- 

 tant books on the history of their subject. 



One of these is entitled " History of the 

 Theory of Numbers " and was prepared by 

 Professor L. E. Dickson, of the University of 

 Chicago, while the other bears the more gen- 

 eral title " A History of Mathematics " and 

 was prepared by Professor Florian Cajori, of 

 the University of California, who holds the 

 unique position of a regular professorship of 

 the history of mathematics in a university. 

 The former book is the first volume of the 

 most complete history of number theory ever 

 written and marks an epoch in American 

 mathematical literature, while the latter is 

 technically only a " revised and enlarged edi- 

 tion " of a book which appeared a quarter of 

 a century ago under the same title, but the 

 changes are so extensive that it too may be 

 regarded as practically a new work. 



The history of science should also be of 

 peculiar interest to all educated people at 

 the present time in view of the fact that this 

 history is now being made very rapidly. The 

 important r51e played by science in the recent 

 world war can never be forgotten, especially 

 since it points to a largely increased imjKjr- 



1 Read before the Missouri State Teachers Asso- 

 ciation, November 7, 1919. 



