SCIENCE 



FEB 141920 



Friday, Tebeuary 13, 1920 



CONTENTS 

 Cooperation in Besearch: De. George Elleky 

 Hale 149 



General Chemistry and its Belation to tlie 

 Distriiution of Students' Supplies in the 

 Laboratory : Professok W. L. Estabrooke. 155 



Herbert Spencer Woods: Professor Lewis 

 William Fetzer 159 



Scientific Events : — 

 The Lister Memorial Institute in Edinburgh ; 

 A Journal of Ecology; Public Lectures of 

 the California Academy of Sciences; Deaths 

 from Influenza and Pneumonia; Gifts to tlie 

 National Besearch Council 160 



University and Educational News 163 



Scientific Notes and Netvs 165 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Further History of the Calculus : Professor 

 Arthur S. Hathaway 166 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Beport of tlie Canadian Arctic Expedition, 

 1913-18 167 



The American Society of Naturalists: Pro- 

 fessor Bradley M. Davis 169 



The American Physical Society: Professor 

 Dayton C. Miller 171 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



COOPERATION IN RESEARCHi 



No one can survey the part played by 

 science in the war without reflecting on the 

 ultimate influence of the war on science. 

 Able investigators have been killed or in- 

 capacitated, and with them a host of men who 

 might have taken high places in research. 

 Sources of revenue have been cut ofl^, and the 

 heavy financial burdens permanently imposed 

 upon individuals, institutions, and govern- 

 ments must tend to reduce the funds available 

 for the advancement of science. On the other 

 hand, the usefulness of science is appreciated 

 as it never has been before, and some newly 

 enlightened governments have already recog- 

 nized that large appropriations for research 

 will bring manifold benefits to the state. 

 The leaders of industry have also been quick 

 to appreciate the increased returns that re- 

 search renders possible, and industrial labora- 

 tories are multiplying at an unprecedented 

 rate. The death of available investigators, 

 and the higher salary scale of the industrial 

 world, have seriously affected educational in- 

 stitutions, members of whose scientific staffs, 

 inadequately paid and tempted by offers of 

 powerful instrumental equipment, have been 

 drawn into the industries. On the other 

 hand, industrial leaders have repeatedly em- 

 phasized the fundamental importance of sci- 

 entific researches made solely for the advance- 

 ment of knowledge, and the necessity of 

 basing all great industrial advances on the 

 results of such investigations. Thus they 

 may be expected to contribute even more 

 liberally than before to the development of 

 laboratories organized for work of this 

 nature. Educational institutions are also 

 likely to recognize that science should play 

 a larger part in their curriculum, and that 

 men skilled in research should be developed 



1 Address given before the Eoyal Canadian In- 

 stitute, Toronto, April 9, 1919. 



