SCIENCE 



Feidat, September 29, 1916 



CONTENTS 

 The British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: — 



The Present Position and Future Prospects 

 of the Chemical Industry in Great Britain: 

 Professor G. G. Henderson 435 



New Archeological Lights on the Origin of 

 Civilisation in Europe: Sir Arthur Evans. 448 



The Importance of Scientific Research to the 

 Industries: Professor C. Alfred Jaoobson. 456 



Scientific Notes and News 460 



University and Educational News 463 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Song of Fowler 's Toad : H. A. Allard. 

 Better Coordination of Undergraduate 

 Courses: Dr. Bert Russell. Sylvester and 

 Cayley : Professor George Bruce Halsted. 463 



Scientific Books: — 

 Prentiss's Laboratory and Text-book of Em- 

 bryology : B. J. T 466 



Concerning the Species Amoeba proteus: Dr. 

 A. A. Schaeffer 468 



Zuni Inoculative Magic: Elsie Clews Par- 

 sons 469 



Special Articles: — 



The Importance of Lateral Vision in its 

 Relation to Orientation: Professor C. C. 

 Trowbridge 470 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section B — Physics : Dr. W. J. Humphreys. 474 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. lie Keen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE PRESENT POSITION AND FUTURE 



PROSPECTS OF THE CHEMICAL 



INDUSTRY IN GREAT 



BRITAIN i 



For the third time in succession the Sec- 

 tion meets under the shadow of the war 

 cloud, but there is some slight consolation 

 for the indescribable suffering and sorrow 

 which have been imposed upon millions of 

 our fellow creatures in the hope and belief 

 that this cloud also may have a silver lin- 

 ing. It is perhaps no exaggeration to say 

 that nothing less than such an upheaval of 

 existing habits and traditions as has been 

 caused by the war would have sufficed to 

 arouse the British nation from the state of 

 apathy towards science with which it has 

 been fatuously contented in the past. Now, 

 however, the sleeper has at least stirred in 

 his slumber. The press bears witness, 

 through the appearance of innumerable 

 articles and letters, that the people of this 

 country, and even the politicians, have be- 

 gun to perceive the dangers which will in- 

 evitably result from a continuance of their 

 former attitude, and to understand that in 

 peace, as in war, civilization is at a tremen- 

 dous disadvantage in the struggle for ex- 

 istence unless armed by science, and that 

 the future prosperity of the empire is ulti- 

 mately dependent upon the progress of sci- 

 ence, and very specially of chemistry. If, 

 as one result of the war, our people are led 

 to appreciate the value of scientific work, 

 then perhaps we shall not have paid too 

 high a price, high although the price must 

 be. As concerns our own branch of science, 



i Address before the Chemical Section of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1916. 



