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not actually be rendering a greater service to 

 science than he would in following the alter- 

 native course? Yet there are probably few 

 physicists, engaged in teaching and research, 

 who have more than a passing interest in the 

 possible applications of physics to the other 

 sciences. Perhaps it is only natural that the 

 motive of early results of their work, in the 

 form of publications, should far outweigh the 

 motive of results greater and more lasting, 

 but somewhat intangible and long deferred. 



Under existing conditions there is undoubt- 

 edly another source of discouragement to the 

 physics instructor who would otherwise gladly 

 develop such a course. This is the tendency 

 on the part of our educational institutions to 

 make advancement in rank and salary depend 

 almost entirely upon productive scholarship, 

 sometimes measured in terms of volume 

 rather than quality. Excellence in teaching 

 and conscientious work upon a course of the 

 kind here advocated would hardly be con- 

 sidered productive. The instructor, in doing 

 such work, would be making a real sacrifice 

 to the cause of science. Few can afford to 

 make sacrifices of this kind. 



Whatever the solution of the difficulties 

 which have been pointed out, it will probably 

 be satisfactory and acceptable to our educa- 

 tional institutions only if it comes as the 

 result of cooperation on a large scale among 

 the various sciences. Although the responsi- 

 bility for making physics available in the 

 manner suggested seems to me to belong to 

 physics, the initiative in demanding of phys- 

 ics the kind of training that is wanted belongs 

 to the other sciences. It is their duty to out- 

 line to physics what they need, and after the 

 courses have been made available, to maintain 

 an active interest in rather than a passive 

 attitude towards them. And the common 

 motive must be the vision of the significant 

 but, perhaps, little appreciated contributions, 

 through such efforts, to the advancement of 

 science. To find the answer to the problems 

 which are brought up by this aspect of the 

 problem of properly training our science stu- 

 dents seems a task worthy of a body like the 

 American Association for the Advancement 



of Science. The accomplishment of such a 

 task would give a new and fidler meaning to 

 the name of this great organization. 



Paul E. Klopsteg 

 Leeds & Northrup Company, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE OHIO COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT 

 STATION 



In 1917 the College of Agriculture of the 

 Ohio State University and the Ohio Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station entered upon a closer 

 cooperation in their respective fields of work by 

 the appointment of C. G. Williams, chief in 

 agronomy at the station as non-resident pro- 

 fessor of farm crops at the college; of Pro- 

 fessor J. B. Park and Eirman E. Bear, of the 

 college as honorary associates, respectively, in 

 agronomy and soils at the station, and of Gr. 

 W. Conrey, instructor at the college as assist- 

 ant in soils at the station. In 1918 Professor 

 Hei'bert Osborn, of the college, was appointed 

 honorary associate entomologist of the experi- 

 ment station, and H. A. Gossard, chief in ento- 

 mology at the station, was appointed non-resi- 

 dent professor of entomology at the college. 

 In March, 1920, C. C. Hayden, chief in dairy- 

 ing at the station was appointed non-resident 

 assistant professor at the college, and Professor 

 Oscar Erf, of the college, was appointed hon- 

 orary professor in dairying at the station. 



In the actual working out of this coopera- 

 tion the specialists at the experiment station's 

 work by counsel, by lectures at the field meet- 

 ings held by the station, and by conducting 

 special lines of research which are reported in 

 station bulletins. 



The station's field experiments are widely 

 scattered over the state, in order to bring under 

 observation the various soil types and differ- 

 ent industries, and these experiments are vis- 

 ited by the higher classes in agriculture at the 

 college. 



THE LOUISIANA ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



At New Orleans a meeting was held on 

 March 5 to discuss the organization of an 

 entomological society or club. The meeting 



