SCIENCE 



Friday, June 21, 1918 



CONTENTS 

 The Organization of the Medical Profession 

 for War: Dr. Akthur Dean Bevan 697 



The Labelling of Fair Exhibits as an Aid to 

 Agricultural Production: Dr. Harl.^n I. 

 Smith 603 



Scientific Events: — 



The Coordi7iation of Scientific Publication; 

 Vital Statistics of England and Walesa- 

 Civil Engineers and the Army; War Work 

 of Mining Engineers 604 



Scientific Notes and News 607 



University and Educational News 608 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Pyrheliometry and Solar Eadiation: Dr. C. 

 G. Abbot. Seply to Professor Wilder: Col- 

 onel Thos. L. Casey. Our National Flower: 

 Frederic LeRot S.utOENT, EIatharine 

 DooRis Sharp 609 



Scientific BooVs: — 



Guppy on Plants, Seeds and Currents in the 

 West Indies and Asores: Professor Edward 

 W. Berry 612 



Special Articles: — 



Post-glacial Continental Uplift: Peopessor 

 H. L. Fairchild 615 



The American Philosophical Society: Pro- 

 rESSOR Arthur W. Goodspeed 617 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MEDICAL 

 PROFESSION FOR WAR' 

 I FEEL greatly honored bj' the election to 

 the position of president of the American 

 Medical Association. I recognize not only 

 the honor but also the responsibility of as- 

 suming the leadership of the organized 

 medical profession of the country at this 

 time. The war has made unusual and ex- 

 acting demands on us. The government 

 and the people are looking to us to furnish 

 in this great emergency not only the neces- 

 sary number of medical men for the Army 

 and Navy, but also the highest degree of 

 medical service and efficiency. This is 

 proving to be a war not simply between 

 well-organized armies but between effi- 

 cienth' organized nations. It is now clear 

 that in order to ^nn the war we must or- 

 ganize the entire nation in such a way that 

 every man and woman must become a use- 

 ful part of a great and powerful national 

 milit^iry machine. No part of such a great 

 national organization is moi-e important 

 than the medical profession, and on this, 

 the opening evening of this great war meet- 

 ing of American physicians, it is my pur- 

 pose to address you on the organization of 

 the medical profession for war. 



ORGAXIZATION OF THE ASSOCIATION 



There are in the United States more than 

 145,000 men and women licensed in the 

 various states to practise medicine. Of 

 these more than 81,000 are members of the 



1 Part of the president 's address by Arthur Dean 

 Bevan, M.D., Chicago, before the American Med- 

 ical Association at the Sixty-ninth Annual Session, 

 Chicago, June, 1918. The address is printed in the 

 Journal of the American Medical Association. 



