SCIENCE 



Feidat, January 9, 1920 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science : — 



The VntUled Fields of Public Bealth : Peo- 

 FESSOE C.-E. A. WiNSLOW 23 



The Organization of Besearch: Professoe 



H. P. Aemsby S3 



Scientific Events: — 



Conference of British Besearch Associations; 



The Medical Strike in Spain; Besolutions of 

 '■• the Anthropological Society of Washington; 



Biological Surveys of States hy the United 

 : States Department of Agriculture 38 



Scientific Notes and News 40 



University and Educational News 43 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



; A Splendid Service: J. M. C. Weight of 



', Body moving along Equator: Peopessoe Ed- 



: WAED V. Huntington. An Odd Problem in 



'. Mechanics : Dr. Cabl Heeinq 44 



Quotations : — 



Science and The New Era Printing Com- 

 pany 46 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Seward's Fossil Plants: Professor Edwaed 

 W. Beeey 47 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Beport of the St. Louis Meeting : Peofessob 

 George T. Mooke 48 



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 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE UNTILLED FIELDS OF PUBLIC 

 HEALTHi 



A SHORT time ago two Yale undergraduates 

 came to my laboratory to consult me in regard 

 to the choice of a career. One of them was a 

 son ef a public health administrator of the 

 highest eminence; and they particularly 

 wanted to know something about the field 

 of public health, what it included, what was 

 the nature of the work involved, what were 

 the qualifications required, and what the 

 financial rewards and the more intangible 

 emoluments to be expected by those who 

 might enter upon this career. I told them 

 what I could of the current tendencies which 

 to me seem to make public health one of the 

 most stimulating and attractive openings 

 lying before the college student of the present 

 day; but I found that the answer to their 

 question was by no means a simple one to 

 formulate. The public health movement has 

 been expanding so rapidly that what was " the 

 New Public Health " fifteen years ago in- 

 cludes only the more conventional interests of 

 the present day. 



It seemed to me as I talked with these young 

 men that we needed a formulation of current 

 tendencies in the protean field of public 

 health and an outline of the lines of future 

 development so far as they can safely be fore- 

 cast. It is essential that the worker in this 

 domain of applied science should see clearly 

 the goal toward which he is aiming, however 

 far ahead of the immediate possibilities of the 

 moment it may appear to be. Above all, it 

 is desirable that we should have a definite and 

 inspiring program to lay before the young 

 men and women of the country who hesitate 

 in the choice of a career. On every hand we 

 hear the question, put by an eager young 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section K — Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine—St. Louis, January 2, 1920. 



