SCIENCE 



Friday, October 13, 1916 



CONTENTS 



The Relation of Pure Science to Industrial 

 Research : J. J. Carty 511 



The Botanical Field Excursion in Collegiate 

 Work.-. Dr. Vaughan MacCaughet 518 



"Expedite the Map": Professor W. M. 

 Davis 525 



American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: — 



The Committee on Policy: Dr. L. O. How- 

 ard 526 



Scientific Notes and News 527 



University and Educational News 530 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Diffusion vs. Independent Origin: Dr. A. A. 

 Goldenweiser. Some Objections to Elliot 

 Smith's Theory: Philip Ainsworth Means. 

 Research Funds for Pharmacy: Edward 

 •Kremers 531 



Quotations : — 

 Science and Industry 535 



Scientific Boolcs: — 

 Morgan on the Mechanism of Mendelian 

 Heredity : Dr. W. Bateson 536 



Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences: Professor Edwin Bidwell Wilson. 543 



Special Articles: — - 



The Function of the Apyrene Spermatozoa: 

 Dr. Richard Goldschmidt 5 44 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. McEeen Cattell, Ga 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE RELATION OF PURE SCIENCE TO 

 INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH i 



It is not strange that many years ago 

 Huxley, with his remarkable precision of 

 thought and his admirable command of 

 language, should have indicated his dis- 

 satisfaction with the terms "pure science" 

 and "applied science," pointing out at the 

 same time that what people call "applied 

 science" is nothing but the application of 

 pure science to particular classes of prob- 

 lems. The terms are still employed, pos- 

 sibly because, after all, they may be the 

 best ones to use, or perhaps our ideas, to 

 which these expressions are supposed to 

 conform, have not yet become sufficiently 

 definite to have called forth the right words. 



It is not the purpose of this address, how- 

 ever, to suggest better words or expres- 

 sions, but rather to direct attention to cer- 

 tain important relations between purely 

 scientific research and industrial scientific 

 research which are not yet sufficiently 

 understood. 



Because of the stupendous upheaval of 

 the European war with its startling 

 agencies of destruction — the product of 

 both science and the industries — and be- 

 cause of the deplorable unpreparedness of 

 our own country to defend itself against 

 attack, there has begun a great awakening 

 of our people. By bringing to their minds 

 the brilliant achievements of the member- 

 ship of this institute in electric lighting 

 and power and communications and by 

 calling their attention to the manifold 



i President 's address given at the thirty-third 

 annual convention of the American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers. 



