SCIENCE 



Feiday, December 8, 1916 



CONTENTS 



Medicine as a Career: Dr. Victor C. Vaughan. 799 



Keith Lucas : Dr. Alexander Forbes 808 



Industrial Besearch in Canada 810 



Scientific Notes and News 811 



and Educational News 81 4 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Observations of the Aurora of August 26 

 from British Columbia and Alaska: Kay 

 Alexander, Fred K. Vreeland, Erastus 

 Brainerd, William S. Cooper, Alfred H. 

 Brooks, M. O. Malte. The Auroras of 

 1859: Geo. M. Searle. Inferences concern- 

 ing Auroras : Dr. Elihu Thomson. A Busi- 

 ness Man's Appraisement of Biology: Pro- 

 fessor Wm. E. Bitter. Psychology as con- 

 traband: Professor Howard C. Warren . . 815 



Food Control 822 



Scientific Books: — 

 Bivers on the History of Melanesian So- 

 ciety : Dr. A. A. Goldenweiser 824 



Special Articles: — 



Lobster Mating — a Means of Conserving the 

 Lobster Industry : A. P. Knight 828 



The Boyal Society of Canada : Dr. H. M. Ami. 832 



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

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

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



MEDICINE AS A CAREER* 



Students of Medicine: You have chosen 

 your life work. You have elected to de- 

 vote your time and energy to the science 

 and art of medicine. It is hoped that you 

 fully realize the importance of this decision 

 and that you have not come here without 

 adequate deliberation and comprehension 

 of the heavy tasks you have assumed in 

 taking this step. In view of the possibility 

 that some of you have made a mistake, I 

 have decided to spend this hour in pre- 

 senting to you a few of the duties and obli- 

 gations which you are assuming and if 

 there be among you those who feel that the 

 burdens to be borne are too heavy and the 

 personal gain too light, let such not hesi- 

 tate to stop and turn back on the threshold. 

 Medicine needs recruits, but it desires and 

 will accept only those who, after severe 

 tests, it deems worthy. I am aware of the 

 fact that the words of the experienced fall 

 lightly upon the ears of the inexperienced, 

 but one who has served in the ranks for 

 nearly forty years offers you advice. I 

 wish to say that the fatality among med- 

 ical students is great. In the past ten 

 years, less than sixty per cent, of those 

 who have entered this school have suc- 

 ceeded in winning its diploma, and of those 

 who have gained this distinction not all 

 have fulfilled the confidence imposed in 

 them by the faculty. It is not my expec- 

 tation that you will do better than preced- 

 ing classes. 



Medicine embraces all facts which may 

 be utilized in the prevention or alleviation 

 of diseases. Its chief contributory sci- 



i Address at the opening of the University of 

 Michigan Medical School, October 3, 1916. 



