

SCIENCE 



; Muse' 



Friday, August 25, 1916 



CONTENTS 



Address at the Dedication of the Mitchell Me- 

 morial Building of the Philadelphia Ortho- 

 paedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous 

 Diseases : Dr. W. W. Keen 255 



A Note on the Serum Treatment of Polio- 

 myelitis : Dr. Simon Flexner 259 



The Culture Value of Science: Professor 

 Wit. E. Eitter 261 



The National Research Council: Dr. George 

 E. Hale 264 



A British Board of Science and Industry 266 



The New York Meeting of the American Chem- 

 ical Society 268 



Scientific Notes and News 269 



University and Educational News 272 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



North American Faunal Areas: Dr. Erank 

 Collins Baker. ' ' Same ' ' — Educational 

 Experiment Stations: Wm. Kent. Science 

 and War : Dr. E. Lyman Wells 273 



Quotations : — 

 Scientific Appointments under the Govern- 

 ment. President Wilson's Scientific Ap- 

 pointments 276 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Dadourian on Analytical Mechanics: Pro- 

 fessor E. W. Eettger 278 



Special Articles: — 

 Experimental Ablation of the Hypophysis 

 in the Frog Embryo: Dr. P. E. Smith. 

 The Effect of Grinding Soil on the Number 

 of Microorganisms: Dr. E. B. Fred. The 

 Pulse Theory of Radiation: P. W. Cobb. A 

 Primary Circuit Key for Quantitative In- 

 duction Work : Dr. B. E. Lee Gunning . . . 280 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Charles 

 L. Paksons 285 



MSS. Intended for publication and boots, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, GarrisoD- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE 

 MITCHELL MEMORIAL BUILDING OF 



THE PHILADELPHIA ORTHOPEDIC 



HOSPITAL AND INFIRMARY FOR 



NERVOUS DISEASES i 



Observe the title of the building we are 

 assembled to dedicate — the Mitchell Me- 

 morial Building of the Philadelphia Or- 

 thopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nerv- 

 ous Diseases. It is not the S. Weir 

 Mitchell or the Weir Mitchell Memorial, 

 but Simply the "Mitchell Memorial" Build- 

 ing. 2 As there are many Franklins but 

 only one Franklin, so there are many 

 Mitchells but only one Mitchell. 



I first saw Weir Mitchell on the third of 

 September, 1860, just as I was beginning 

 the arduous study which has filled a long 

 life time. The last time I saw him was at 

 Christmas time in 1913, just before the 

 shadow of death fell upon him. The inter- 

 val covered fifty-three years and four 

 months — a long time for an intimate 

 friendship which never knew a cloud even 

 as big as a man's hand. 



He was my senior by only eight years, 

 but, having graduated ten years before I 

 began even to study medicine and having 

 already an established reputation, I always 

 looked up to him as my father in the pro- 

 fession rather than as an elder brother. 



1 first aided him in his experiments on 

 the poison of snakes — a study which for 

 almost half a century fascinated him and 

 to which he, first alone, and later with 



i By Dr. W. W. Keen, consulting surgeon to the 

 hospital. 



2 This was the name then on the new building. 

 Later it was replaced by the "Silas Weir 

 Mitchell Memorial." 



