SCIENCE 



Friday, May 7, 1909 



CONTENTS 

 The Unfilled Field of Chemistry: Aethue 

 D. Little 719 



The Function and Future of the Technical 

 College: Pkofessoe Aethue H. Chambee- 

 LAIN 723 



Recent Sanitary Legislation in Kansas: Peo- 

 FESSOE E. H. S. Bailey 729 



In Oklahoma 730 



Building for Scientifio, Educational, Patri- 

 otic and other Organisations in Washington 731 



Scientific Notes and News 732 



University and Educational News 735 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Industrial Fellowships: Peofessoe Robebt 

 Kennedy Duncan. Elementary Embryol- 

 ogy Courses: Peofessoe M. M. Metcaif. 

 The Country Boy Again: De. W. J. Spill- 

 man. The Relation of the Meter and the 

 Yard : Mabshall D. Eweel 736 



Scientific Books: — 



Webster's Primitive Secret Societies: 

 Peofessoe Alexandee F. Chamberlain. 

 Baeckel's Unsere Ahnenreihe: J. P. McM. 

 Browning's Introduction to the Rarer Ele- 

 ments: Peofessoe Chas. Baskeeville ... 741 



Scientifio Journals and Articles 744 



Special Articles: — 

 A Litter of Hybrid Dogs: De. R. R. Gates 744 



TAe American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — ■ 

 Section E — Geology and Geography : Db. F. 

 P. Gullivee 747 



Societies and Academies: — 



Twenty-fifth Meeting of the Chicago Sec- 

 tion of the American Mathematical Society : 

 Peofessoe H. E. Slaught. The Torrey 

 Botanical Club : Pebcy Wilson 757 



MSS. intended for publicatiou and boots, etc., intended for 

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

 HuJson, N, Y. 



TBE UNTILLED FIELD OF CHEMISTRY '^ 

 Two years ago, upon a similar occasion, 

 it was my privilege to address many of you 

 and to point out some of the relationships 

 existing between the chemist and the com- 

 munity. In so doing, there naturally de- 

 volved upon me the pleasant duty of re- 

 calling to your minds a few of the great 

 and more significant achievements of mem- 

 bers of our profession by way of indicating, 

 although briefly and most inadequately, 

 something of the extent to which the chem- 

 ist has already placed the community in 

 his debt. It is good for any body of men, 

 animated by a common purpose, to take, 

 from time to time, mental stock of what 

 they have accomplished and of the relation 

 in which they really stand to their envir- 

 onment. Where, as in our own case, the 

 record is one of which we all may well be 

 proud, its contemplation brings a new 

 sense of the dignity of the work itself, a 

 pride of fellowship and an incentive to in- 

 creased endeavor. 



We move, however, in a world where it 

 is easy to take much for granted, where 

 symbols and conventions quickly come to 

 take the place of the realities they repre- 

 sent. Our mental processes are apt to 

 run along the line of least resistance and 

 the apparent and the obvious obscure the 

 fundamental truths. This being so, we 

 can well afford to leave our achievements 

 in the security of the past while we con- 

 sider for the moment the things we have 

 left undone. 



The volume of chemical literature has 

 become so great, so many compounds have 



^Address of chairman of the Division of Indus- 

 trial Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Balti- 

 more, December 29, 1908. 



