SCIENCE 



Friday, September 22, 1916 

 contents 



The British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



New Archeological Lights on the Origins of 

 Civilisation in Europe: Sir Arthur Evans. 399 



The Organization of Thought: Professor 



A. N. Whitehead 409 



Dr. Haldane's Silliman Lectures 419 



Scientific Notes and News 420 



University and Educational News 425 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Vitalism: President S. B. Mezes. The 

 Animal Diet of Early Man: Dr. M. W. 

 Lyon, Jr 425 



Scientific Boolcs: — 



The Napier Tercentenary Memorial Vol- 

 ume : Professor Louis C. Kakpinski 427 



A New Triangulation Signal Lamp: E. 6. 

 Fischer 430 



Articles : — 

 Linked Mendelian Characters in a New 

 Species of Drosophila: Dr. Chas. W. 

 Metz. Bacterial Blights of Barley and 

 other Cereals: Professor L. E. Jones, A. 

 G. Johnson, C. S. Eeddy. Another Use of 

 the Double-plate Method: W. D. Frost and 

 Freda M. Bachmann 331 



Societies and Academies: — 



The St. Louis Academy of Science: Pro- 

 fessor J. M. Greenman 434 



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

 reTiew Bhould be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 



On-Eudson, N. Y. 



NEW ARCHEOLOGICAL LIGHTS ON 



THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION 



IN EUROPEi 



Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt 



When I was asked on behalf of the coun- 

 cil of the British Association to occupy the 

 responsible post of president at the meeting 

 in this great city — the third that has taken 

 place here — I was certainly taken by sur- 

 prise ; the more so as my own subject of re- 

 search seemed somewhat removed from 

 what may be described as the central in- 

 terests of your body. The turn of archeol- 

 ogy, however, I was told, had come round 

 again on the rota of the sciences repre- 

 sented; nor could I be indifferent to the 

 fact that the last presidential address on 

 this theme had been delivered by my father 

 at the Toronto meeting of 1897. 



Still, it was not till after considerable 

 hesitation that I accepted the honor. En- 

 gaged as I have been through a series of 

 years in the work of excavation in Crete — 

 a work which involved not only the quarry- 

 ing but the building up of wholly new mate- 

 rials and has entailed the endeavor to 

 classify the successive phases of a long, con- 

 tinuous story — absorbed and fascinated by 

 my own investigation — I am oppressed with 

 the consciousness of having been less able 

 to keep pace with the progress of fellow 

 explorers in other departments or to do 

 sufficient justice to their results. I will not 

 dwell, indeed, on those disabilities that re- 

 sult to myself from present calls and the 

 grave preoccupations of the hour, that to 

 a greater or less extent must affect us all. 



i Address of the president of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, 1916. 



