SCIENCE 



Friday, May 31, 1918 



COXTSyiS 

 The Value and Service of Zoological Science : — 

 Esthetical and Secreational Valties: Pro- 

 FESsoa R. H. WoLCOTT 521 



Scientific Events: — 



Tin in Virginia; International Scientific 

 Nomenclature; Applied Psychology at the 

 Carnegie Institute of Technology and its 

 War-Time Work; Presentation of the Edi- 

 son Medal 529 



Scientific Xotes and Neus 531 



University and Educational News 535 



Discvssion and Correspondence: — 

 Professional Courtesy: Peofessoe H. Steen- 

 BOCK, Peofessoe E. V. McCollum. The 

 World's Calendar: T. G. Dabxet. Celluloid 

 for Cover Glasses: F. A. Vaerelman. An 

 Absolute Scale for Recording Temperature : 

 J. Adams 535 



Scientific Boolcs: — 



Text-books on ilathematics : Professor C. 



J. Ketsee 539 



Special Articles: — 

 Inheritance of Winter Egg Production: 

 Peofessoe H. D. Goodale 542 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section D — Engineering : Professor Arthur 

 H. Blanchard 543 



MS8. intended for publication and booka. et«., intended for 

 review should be teat to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE VALUE AND SERVICE OF ZOO- 

 LOGICAL SCIENCE' 

 ESTHETICAL AND RECREATIONAL VALUES 



"We are met together in a world convulsed 

 by strife, resounding with the measured 

 tramp of armies, with the clash of arms, 

 and into the vortex of this world-wide con- 

 flict our own nation has been drawn. Back 

 of the rising smoke of battle towers the 

 gaunt figure of materialism. It is greed of 

 material gain, it is lust of dominion, where- 

 with to reap this gain, that has precipi- 

 tated this mightj' struggle. 



All nations have allowed themselves to 

 fall in more or less degree under the sway 

 of this materialism, and we ourselves are 

 not without guilt in this respect, though 

 not so guilty as our critics would fain have 

 us believe. It was not to be wondered at 

 that under these conditions many at first 

 saw in this war only the rivalry of sordid 

 interests, that they hesitated to take sides 

 in a struggle in which they conceived the 

 end not as the triumph of noble principles 

 but as the supremacy of commercial ad- 

 vantage, that our critics charged us with 

 seeking to ser\-e only our own selfish inter- 

 ests and taxed us with hypocrisy when on 

 entering the conflict we renounced material 

 gain and raised the banner of truth and 

 justice. 



But exposed to the heat of this conflagra- 

 tion and in the cnicible of suffering men's 

 ambitions have been refined, the metal has 

 been freed from the dross. As the strug- 

 gle has progressed, another figure — the 

 figure of idealism — has become defined, ris- 



' Symposium before the American Society of 

 Zoologists, Minneapolis, December 29, 1917. 



