SCIENCE 



Friday, April 26, 1918 



CONTEXTS 

 Seme Developments in the ChemuMl Indiis- 

 tries as a Eesult of War Conditions: Pro- 

 fessor S. W. Pakr 399 



The New Hoplcins Marine Station of Stan- 

 ford University: Dr. Walter K. Fishee... 410 



Scientific Events: — 



The Bombardment of Paris by Long-range 

 Guns; Tungsten Ores in the National Mu- 

 seum; Chemistry at Yale University 412 



Scientific Notes and News 414 



University and Educational News 416 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Spectroscopic Investigation : Professor Et- 

 •wiN B. Prost. The Desiccation of the 

 Earth: C. P. von Herrmann. Areas of 

 Atidibility: Willard J. Fisher. Priviitive 

 Knowledge of Inoculation : Professor 

 Knight Dunlap 416 



Scientific Boois: — 



Wheldale on the Anthocyanin Pigments of 

 Plants: Professor Boss Aitken Gortner. 

 Dr. Keen on Medical Eesearch : Dr. Howard 

 A. Kelly 418 



The Annital Meeting of the National Academy 

 of Sciences 419 



Special Articles: — 

 A Simple Method of Measuring Photosythe- 

 sis: Professor W. J. V. Osterhout and 

 A. R. C. H.\AS 420 



MSS. iDt£D<led for publication &Dd books, etc.ibtcDded for 

 levicw should be sent to rbe Editor kf Science, Gamson-OD- 

 Uudsoo, N. Y. 



SOME DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CHEM- 

 ICAL INDUSTRIES AS A RESULT OF 

 WAR CONDITIONS! 



In these passing daj'S every branch of 

 scientific activity has many striking illus- 

 trations of the fact that its fund of knowl- 

 edge and experience is being vigorously 

 drawn upon to meet the pressing needs of 

 the hour. Where so many sciences are 

 making notable war records it may seem 

 invidious to select any single one for review. 

 But my own personal apology must be that 

 I have not the ability and certainly a single 

 evening has not enough hours for present- 

 ing the activities and the accomplishments 

 of the entire field of science. While, there- 

 fore, we are proposing to discuss matters 

 having a more or less chemical tinge it 

 should be emphasized at the outset that we 

 are not unmindful of the wonderful service 

 in manifold ways resulting from the activi- 

 ties of the physicist, the engineer, the geol- 

 logist, the bacteriologist and botanist, the 

 psj'chologist, the pathologist and sanitar- 

 ian : All these and many other workers in 

 related branches of science have achieved 

 results which are quite as fundamentally 

 important as anything the chemist may 

 have to offer. 



A further word of explanation or pos- 

 sibly of warning may also be in order. The 

 field of the chemist is so wide and his activi- 

 ties touch so many interests that sometimes 

 he must be not altogether certain himself 

 when he is treading the paths that lie out- 

 side of his own borders. Indeed he must ap- 

 pear occasionally, in the mind of other peo- 

 ple, at least, to have adopted as his own the 



1 Annual address delivered before the Society of 

 Sigma Xi, University of Iowa, February 13, 1918. 



