SCIENCE 



Friday, May 14, 1920 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



The Stimulation of Besearch after the War: 

 PRorEssOK E. A. Haepek 473 



James M. Macoun: Dr. Hablan I. Smith. . . . 478 



Scientific Events : — 



The Anglo-American University Librairy for 

 Central Europe; Publications for European 

 Nations; Tables of the Motion of the Moon; 

 The Director of the Bureau of Mines 480 



Scientific Notes and News 483 



University and Educational News 484 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



T}ie Aurora of March SS, 19S0: Professor 

 Joel Stbbbins. The Mecent Auroras and 

 Sun Spots: Professor E. D. Rob, Jr. Pos- 

 sible Connection between Siinspots and 

 Earthquakes: Professor Dinsmoee Alter. 

 Some Micro-planTcton from Salton Sea: Dr. 

 W. E. Allen. Conditions in Hungary : Pro- 

 fessor Jas. Lewis Howe. Journals for 

 Prague: Professor Frederick; S. Hammett. 485 



Notes on Meteorology : — 

 The Supposed Becurrent Irregularities in the 

 Annual March of Temperature : Dr. Charles 

 F. Brooks 488 



Special Articles: — 



The Siphon in Text-boohs: Dr. Haeold C. 

 Barker 489 



Tlie American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section E — Geology and Geography: Pro- 

 fessor EOLLIN T. Chamberlin 491 



The American Geophysical Union: Dr. Harry 

 O. Wood 494 



The National Academy of Sciences 494 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE STIMULATION OF RESEARCH 

 AFTER THE WARi 



At tte time when I received from Dr. Cook 

 the notice of my assignment to this topic, the 

 phrase " after the war " seemed to be of rather 

 indefinite and at least possibly remote signifi- 

 cance. There was a chance at least that any- 

 thing I might say would have time to be for- 

 gotten before its timeliness would be put to 

 the test. 



To-day we are face to face with the problem 

 of stimulating research in this new epoch, 

 which the political and social cataclysms of 

 the past four years have ushered in. I am not 

 one of those who are inclined to minimize the 

 significance of the period through which we 

 have just passed in its relations especially to 

 the advance of knowledge. It is a reproach to 

 biological science that we are not able to pre- 

 dict evolutionary trends, but it is perhaps on 

 the whole a hopeful sign that we frequently 

 differ so widely in our judgment of the signifi- 

 cance of current events, and of the world prob- 

 lems which the great conflict involved. 



It is for us, who conceive biology as in any 

 true sense the science of life processes and ac- 

 tivities in plants and animals alike from the 

 lowest to the highest, to look to our funda- 

 mental conceptions and take thought of the 

 responsibilities which our scientific preten- 

 sions involve. In my opinion we may find in 

 the final assessment of responsibilities for the 

 world war that a pseudo-scientific dogmatism, 

 and the promulgation in popular form of 

 superficial and wholly misleading views of such 

 evolutionary concepts as the struggle for ex- 

 istence and the survival of the fittest, have had 

 a share, both in the production of the false 

 national and racial ambitions which lead up 



1 Bead before Section 6, American Associa^^ion 

 for the Advancement of Science, at the Baltimore 

 meeting in the symposium on "Research after the 

 War. ' ' 



