SCIENCE 



Friday, February 22, 1918 



CONTENTS 

 The Bed Cross and the Anti-vivisectionists : Db. 

 W. W. KiEN 175 



On College Physics Teaching: Dr. "Willard J. 

 FiSHEK 182 



Scientific Events: — 



The Samsay Memorial Fund; The War De- 

 partment Committee on Education and Spe- 

 cial Training; Chemistry and the War .... 185 



Scientific Notes and News 187 



University and Educational News 191 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Election of Officers by Scientific So- 

 cieties: Dr. G. a. Miller. Are Zoologists 

 going to use the BNA? Thomas Btrd 

 Magath. Bate of Desert Delta Growth: 

 Dr. Charles Keyes 191 



Scientific Books: — 

 Bobbins on the Botany of Crop Plants: Pro- 

 fessor L. H. Pammels. Jordan and Ever- 

 mann on Genera of Fishes: Professor T. D. 



A. COCKEEELL 194 



Special Articles: — 

 The "Bawness" of Subsoils: Professor F. 

 J. Alway 196 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Beport of the Treasurer; Beport of the Per- 

 manent Secretary 199 



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

 leviow should be sent to The Editor uf Science, Garrison-oQ- 

 Hudsoo, N. Y. 



THE RED CROSS AND THE ANTIVIVI- 

 SECTIONISTS: 



AN APPEAL TO THE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS 



OF OUR HEROIC TROOPS AND TO THE 



COMMON SENSE OF THE AMERICAN 



PEOPLE 



First of all let me make two facts clear. 



1. This paper has been written entirely 

 on my own responsibility and not at the 

 suggestion directly or indirectly of the Red 

 Cross. I have been moved to write it solely 

 in the interest of our brave soldiers, and 

 especially because their sufferings and lives 

 are involved in the suit against the Red 

 Cross by the antivi\'isectionists to prevent 

 the use of $100,000 of the Red Cross funds 

 in such beneficent life-saving researches. 



2. The Red Cross as an organization is 

 neither an opponent, nor an advocate, nor a 

 defender, of vivisection. It states officially 

 that the supreme aim of the Red Cross is to 

 relieve human suffering [and it might well 

 have added "and to save thousands of hu- 

 man lives"]. 



The War Council was advised from the ableet 

 sources available that an immediate appropria- 

 tion for medical research would contribute to that 

 end. The War Council could not disregard such 

 advice. 



They then refer to the many unsolved 

 medical and surgical problems that have 

 arisen from wholly new conditions and 

 methods of warfare. Letters from a num- 

 ber of my own surgical friends in France 

 emphasize and the medical journals teem 

 with papers on these new problems. They 

 relate to the treatment of the horribly in- 

 fected wounds — and practically all wounds 

 are of this kind — never met with in civil 

 surgery; to the treatment of "trench 



