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specific only with reference to two matters. 

 First, that of the location of the institution. 

 The idea of getting the present 177-acre site 

 and of using it as it is being used origi- 

 nated with him and with him alone; and 

 securing the land would have been impos- 

 sible without him. But for his leadership 

 in this we should now be in the little three- 

 acre park in La Jolla. The enormous ad- 

 vantage of the present location as com- 

 pared with the former one is becoming appar- 

 ent to everybody connected with the institu- 

 tion. Second, the plan of having a business 

 manager who alone should have charge of all 

 monetary affairs of the institution. The wis- 

 ' dom and practicability of separating the busi- 

 ness and scientific work of such an enterprise 

 would seem so obvious that it is surprising that 

 any other plan should be thought of except as 

 a temporary makeshift. Tet the time and 

 strength of many scientific men are consumed 

 with business matters which their incompetence 

 makes much more costly in time and money 

 than the employment of a business manager 

 would be. 



The money, about $40,000 all told, "in- 

 vested " in the enterprise by Mr. Scripps, 

 though of very substantial aid in developing 

 the " plant " and in maintenance, for which 

 uses it has been given at different times and in 

 varying sums, is of minor importance com- 

 pared with the business experience and the 

 ideas which he has contributed. 



¥h. E. Bitter 

 Scripps Institution for Biological 

 Research of the University of California, 

 La Jolla, Calif. 



psychology as contraband 

 To the Editor of Science : Some weeks ago 

 the State Department reported the seizure by 

 the British government of a package of books 

 sent from Germany through Holland to the 

 Bsychological Beview Company. The presi- 

 dent of the company, who is also editor of the 

 Psychological Review, wrote to the American 

 Consul General at London, stating that these 

 books were scientific in character and essen- 

 tially neutral. He suggested that the British 



authorities mention the titles and authors to 

 any British psychologist and expressed con- 

 fidence that any such expert would substan- 

 tiate our statement. 



The Consul General in due time replied 

 that the British Procurator General had finally 

 ruled that " such publications were not entitled 

 to free transit." 



The Psychological Beview will not contest 

 this decision in the British courts, but we wish 

 to submit our case to the scientific world at 

 home and abroad. Is there any good reason 

 for hampering scientific progress by a policy 

 of this sort? Would not the British psychol- 

 ogists do well to petition for a commission to 

 determine the mental status of their Pro- 

 curator General? Howard C. Warren 



Psychological Review Company, 

 Princeton, N. J., 

 November 15, 1916 



QUOTATIONS 



FOOD CONTROL 



The decision of the board of trade, an- 

 nounced by Mr. Bunciman on November 15, to 

 appoint a food controller, has naturally excited 

 a great deal of public interest, and more has 

 been read into the announcement than it actu- 

 ally contained. The orders so far made by 

 the board of trade under the Defence of the 

 Bealm Begulations apply to milk, flour and 

 potatoes. The price of milk must not be raised 

 above that paid at November 15, 1916, and the 

 price may not exceed by more than a specified 

 amount — in the case of retail milk 2d. a quart 

 — the price in the corresponding month before 

 the war. The order as to potatoes requires a 

 return of potato stocks. The order which will 

 have most effect in its influence on our daily 

 diet is that which deals with flour. It affords 

 an instance of how an agitation, unsuccessful 

 in peace time, may succeed in its object under 

 the stress of war conditions. The severe re- 

 striction of the hours during which alcoholic 

 liquors may be sold, and the introduction of 

 " summer time," or daylight saving, as it has 

 been called, are other examples. The regula- 

 tion prohibits for the future the production of 

 any flour except such as would have been 



