SCIENCE 



Friday, May 17, 1918 



CONTENTS 

 The Value and Service of Zoological Science : — 

 Value to the Individual: Professor Harry 

 Beal Torret 471 



Utilitarian Values : Professor M. F. Gdter. 477 



Scientific Events: — 



The Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State 

 University; Anti-typhoid Inoculation; The 

 Silliman Lectures; The Baltimore Meeting 

 of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science 481 



Scientific Notes atid News 483 



University and Educational News 486 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Proposed Magnetic and Allied Observa- 

 tions during Total Solar Eclipse of June 

 8, 1918: Dr. Louis A. Bauee. Progressive 

 Deglaciation and the Amelioration of Cli- 

 mate: Marsden Manson. Translations 

 made accessible: J. N. Stephenson. A 

 New Calendar: W. J. SpiLLiiAN. Draivings 

 on Lantern Slides : J. R. Benton 486 



Scientific Books: — 

 Lowie on Culture and Ethnology : Professor 

 Albert Ernest Jenks 489 



Special Articles: — 



Nezara viridula and Kernel Spot of Pecan : 

 William F. Turner 490 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section E — Geology and Geography 492 



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

 reriew should bo sent t« The Editor of Science, Garriaon-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



THE VALUE AND SERVICE OF ZOO- 

 LOGICAL SCIENCEi 



VALUE TO THE INDIVIDUAL 



The science of zoology is a body of or- 

 ganized knowledge, huge, impersonal, in- 

 fluential. Touching human concerns on 

 many sides, it has been variously regarded: 

 now as a pillar of philosophy, now as a 

 handmaiden of esthetic, or again as a neces- 

 sity alike to spiritual progress and to vari- 

 ous indispensable achievements in the prac- 

 tical world. Powerful in itself, to other 

 disciplines its contributions of hard fact 

 and substantial theory have been many and 

 in the aggregate profoundly significant. 



Philosophies, however, are the creations 

 of philosophers. The laws that we apply 

 to diverse aspects of beauty we have 

 framed ourselves. Eugenics and medicine, 

 agricultural practise and the dogmas of re- 

 ligion — all are the works of the human 

 imagination. As attention shifts thus 

 from the product to the producer, an aspect 

 of zoology is revealed that makes at once 

 a more intimately personal appeal. 



It is on this aspect that I would now 

 focus your attention. Its appeal is to the 

 individual human being apart from his 

 professional, his vocational existence : to 

 the plain person, pricked by a thousand 

 impulses that must be encouraged and 

 controlled; attended by obligations that 

 must be measured and met; with oppor- 

 tunities for pleasure that he would do ill to 

 lose; with opportunities for service that 

 may carry him unfaltering to the cannon's 

 jBouth ; ready to see in commonplaces the 



1 Symposium before the Zoological Society of 

 America, Minneapolis, December 29, 1917. 



