SCIENCE 



Friday, October 27, 1916 



CONTENTS 

 The Physician of To-morrow: Chancellor F. 

 F. Wesbrook 583 



Dedication of the New Museum Building of 

 the California Academy of Sciences: Dr. 

 Barton W. Evermann 598 



Scientific Notes and News 603 



University and Educational News 61)7 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 The Census of Fur Seals: Dr. George A. 

 Clark. 7s Dynamics a Physical Science? 

 Professor L. M. Hoskins. Flashing of 

 Fireflies: F. Alex. McDermott. Yellow 

 Leaf Bust of Wheat: Dr. P. J. O'Gara. 

 Is Inheritance Modified by Acquired Char- 

 acters? Dr. John T. Gulick. Tumors in 

 Plants: Dr. Erwin F. Smith 608 



Quotations : — 

 The Optical Industry in France 612 



Scientific Boolcs: — 

 Lewis 's System of Physical Chemistry : Pro- 

 fessor Wilder D. Bancroft 613 



On the Etiology of Epidemic Poliomyelitis: 

 Drs. E. C. Bosenow, E. B. Towne and G. 

 W. Wheeler 614 



Human Remains from the Pleistocene of 

 Florida: Dr. E. H. Sellards 615 



Special Articles: — 

 An Analysis of Diist: B. E. Bees 618 



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

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

 On-Hudaon, N. Y. 



THE PHYSICIAN OF TO-MORROW "i 



Medicine now justly claims an important 

 place with the other sciences. Phenomenal 

 advance in the physical and biological sci- 

 ences has revolutionized it and given it a 

 definiteness hitherto lacking. In fact, it 

 may be said that medicine has been born, 

 or at least reborn, in the last quarter cen- 

 tury. As a consequence, the new science is 

 not yet oriented to those other forces in 

 human environment and relationship which 

 activate social and economic development. 



Further, too, it is impossible to foretell 

 with certainty the place of the medicine of 

 to-morrow. Yet institutions charged with 

 the responsibility of preparing medical 

 practitioners, teachers and administrators 

 for their duties in public medicine and in 

 practise, fail in their obligations even when 

 they furnish their graduates with all the 

 necessary tools, if they neglect to provide 

 proper perspective and to develop adequate 

 capacity for the discriminating test of new 

 methods and the proof of new truths which 

 they will be called upon to adapt to their 

 life work as it unfolds. Above all, these 

 physicians of to-morrow must know hu- 

 manity as well as human anatomy and 

 physiology. They must be trained in the 

 pathology of social conditions as well as in 

 disease processes. They must be as expert 

 in human relationships as in the habits of 

 man's microscopic foes. 



Whilst we recognize our limitations as 

 prophets in forecasting the exact status of 

 public and private medicine a generation 



i Address delivered by F. F. Wesbrook, M.A., 

 M.D., CM., LL.D., before the Pacific Division, 

 American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, San Diego, Calif., August 11, 1916. 



