SCIENCE 



Friday, December 24, 1920 



CONTENTS 

 Medical Zoology in Europe : Db. R. W. Hegner. 591 



Tlis Proilem of the Introductory Course in 

 Botany: PaorEssoR Bradley Moore Davis. 597 



The Present Status of the Affairs of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: Professor Burton E. Living- 

 ston 499 



Scientific Events: — ■ 



Standardization of Industrial Laboratory 

 Apparatus; Needs of the Geological Sur- 

 vey Program; The American Journal of 

 Hygiene; The Yale Forest School; Post 

 Bellum Reorganization of the International 

 Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 600 



Scientific Notes and News 603 



University and Educational News 607 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Wratten Filters: Dk. C. E. K. Mees. The 

 Cost of German Publications: Dr. George 

 Dock. A Question of Bibliography: A. 

 WiLLEY. Jonathan Edwards as a Freu- 

 dian: Dr. Edwin E. Slosson 608 



Scientific Boolcs : — 



Clements on Plant Indicators: Thomas H. 

 Kearney 609 



Special Articles: — 



Long Time Temperature Prediction: Frank 



L. "West 611 



The American Chemical Society : Dr. Charles 

 L. Paksons 612 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



MEDICAL ZOOLOGY IN EUROPEi 



My appointment as a representative of the 

 school of hygiene and public health of the 

 Johns Hopkins University to the Congress of 

 the Eoyal Institute of Public Health which 

 met in Brussels on May 20 to May 24, 1920, 

 made it possible for me to spend over four 

 months at institutions where medical zool- 

 ogy is taught and investigated in Belgium, 

 France, England, Switzerland, Italy and 

 Monaco. Among the institutions visited 

 were faculties of science and medicine con- 

 nected with universities and medical schools, 

 research institutions both private and govern- 

 mental, biological stations at the seashore, 

 natural history and medical museums, veter- 

 inary schools, sanitary institutes, schools of 

 tropical medicine, army and navy medical 

 colleges, experiment stations, and academies 

 of science. In all 67 such institutions were 

 visited and over 150 men who are more or 

 less interested in protozoology, helminthology 

 or medical entomology were interviewed. An 

 opportunity was thus afforded to become 

 fairly well acquainted with the status of med- 

 ical zoology in Europe. 



Paris is, of course, the most active educa- 

 tional center in France. Here are located 

 the faculties of science and medicine of the 

 University of Paris, the Pasteur Institute, 

 the ISTational Museum of Natural History 

 and the l^ational Veterinary School. In the 

 medical school courses are given in parasitol- 

 ogy, tropical medicine, and colonial medicine 

 and work is carried on for the Doctor of Sci- 

 ence degree. The recent death of Blanchard 

 has taken from France the grand old man in 

 parasitology. His laboratory is now in charge 



1 From the department of medical zoology of the 

 school of hygiene and public health of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, TJ. 9. 

 A. Read before the Society of Hygiene of the 

 Johns Hopkins University, November 3, 1920. 



