SCIENCE 



Friday, January 21, 1920 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



I The Organisation of Research: Professor 

 William Morton Wheeler 53 



Nelson B. Wood: Dr. R. W. Shdpeldt 67 



Franz Steindachner : Dr. David Starr Jordan. 68 



Scientific Events: — 



Sigma Xi at the University of Pennsyl- 



: vania; First Meeting of the Cellulose Sec- 



: tion of the American Chemical Society; 



, Forestry Legislation iy the National Gov- 

 ernment; Resolutions of the National Re- 

 search Council on the Death of Henry A. 

 Bumstead 68 



Scientific Notes and News 70 



and EducatioTMl News 73 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



, Natural Areas and Biological Science: Dr. 



I Barrington Moore. Professor Pavlov: Dr. 



S. MoRGDLis. A Question of Bibliog- 

 ; raphy: Rose M. MacDonald. Researches 



in Helminthology and Parasitology: Dr. 



Joseph Leidt, Jr 



73 



Special Articles: — 



A Simple Device for giving Ancesthetics : 

 I Dr. J. R. Slonaker 75 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section F — Zoology: Professor H. V. Neal. 76 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCRi 



Before delivering my paper I wish, to 

 confess tliat I find myself in a somewhat 

 unpleasant predicament, for when I began 

 it and even after sending its title to Pro- 

 fessor AUee I was of the opinion that re- 

 search might, perhaps, be amenable to or- 

 ganization, but after thinking the matter 

 over I was compelled to reverse my opin- 

 ion, with the result that what I shall say 

 may strike some of you as painfully re- 

 actionary. Still I encouraged myself with 

 the reflection that many others have writ- 

 ten papers with misleading titles and that 

 I might perhaps put much of the blame 

 for the results on my confreres of Section 

 P for conferring so signal an honor as its 

 chairmanship on one of its tired old bisons 

 from the taxonomic menagerie instead of 

 on one of its fresh, young bulls from the 

 Mendelian byre. I might say also, in fur- 

 ther justification of myself, that I at least 

 selected the most fashionable and exalted 

 topic I could find, for you must all have 

 observed that at the present time no word 

 occurs with greater frequency and reson- 

 ance in serious discourse than "organiza- 

 tion." Everybody is so busy organizing 

 something or inciting some one to organize 

 something that the word's subtly concealed 

 connotations of control and regulation ap- 

 pear to be overlooked. The purpose of 

 organization is instrumental, as is shown 

 by the derivation of the word, from 

 "organon," a tool, or implement, which is 



1 Address of the retiring vice-president and 

 chairman of Section F — Zoological Sciences — 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, Chicago, 1920. 



