SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTEB TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Petoat, September 11, 1908 



CONTENTS 



Some Prohlems of the Industrial Chemist: 

 J. E, Teeple 321 



The Scientific Work of the San Diego Marine 

 Biological Station during the Year 1908: 

 Professor Wm. E. Ritter 329 



The National Education Association 333 



Congress on Tuberculosis 336 



Collections of Minerals from Ontario 336 



Lectures on Hygiene at Cornell University . . 337 



Scientific Notes and News 337 



University and Educational News 341 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The American Society of Naturalists : Dr. 

 Chas. B. Davenport. The Highest Balloon 

 Ascent: G. T. Oversteeet. Salaries at 

 Bryn Mawr College: President Henrt S. 

 Peitchett 341 



Quotations : — 



The Triumph of Sanitation at Panama . . 343 



Scientific Books: — 



Smith's General Chemistry for Colleges: 

 Professor H. L. Wehs. Haher's Thermo- 

 dynamics of Technical Gas Reactions : Peo- 

 fessor Gilbert N. Lewis. Enuth's Hand- 

 book of Flmoer Pollination: Professor T. 

 D. A. COCKERELL 344 



Special Articles: — 

 Revision of " The New York Series " : 

 George H. Chadwick. Observations upon 

 a Telloics Disease of the Fall Dandelion: 

 W. J. Morse. A Principle of Elementary 

 hahoratory Teaching for Culture Students: 

 Charles H. Shaw 346 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Academy of Sciences, Sec- 

 tion of Geology and Mineralogy : Dr. Chas. 

 P. Berket. The Teoeas Academy of Sci- 

 ence: Professor Eredeeic W. Simonds . . 351 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y., or during the present summer to Wood's Hole, 

 Mass. 



SOME PROBLEMS OF THE INDUSTRIAL 

 CHEMIST » 



This address or talk is the outcome of a 

 conversation with Professor Dennis a 

 couple of months ago. After a rather pro- 

 longed discussion of many phases of in- 

 dustrial chemistry of mutual interest to 

 both of us, he very kindly suggested that 

 you as students and workers in chemistry 

 might be glad to hear some of these same 

 problems discussed in the same way. I 

 am particularly happy to undertake this 

 task because for six years I was a part of 

 the university here and looked at chemical 

 problems from what I may collectively call 

 the university point of view, while for the 

 last nearly four years I have been engaged 

 in looking at these problems mainly from 

 their commercial side. Due to a combina- 

 tion of circumstances, it was necessary for 

 me to assume responsibility in manu- 

 facturing chemicals along lines I had never 

 anticipated, and to come into intimate con- 

 tact with every phase of the history of 

 these chemicals, including their sale. A 

 further combination of circumstances has 

 put me into intimate touch with many in- 

 dustries not primarily chemical, but, being 

 users of chemicals, they have troubles and 

 call for assistance. 



When you leave the university you will, 

 as I have, of course, many times be forced 

 to assume the responsibility of making de- 

 cisions and giving some kind of a sensible 

 judgment based on inaccurate knowledge 



^Address given before the Cornell Section of 

 the American Chemical Society, Eebruaiy 27, 

 1908. 



