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Friday, December 29, 1916 



CONTENTS 



T7»e American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Becent Progress in Spectroscopy : Professor 

 E. P. Lewis 899 



William Bane Lazeriby : Professor J. H. Com- 



STOCK 912 



Scientific Events: — 

 Anthropological Essays in Honor of Pro- 

 fessor W. H. Holmes; Dedication of a Tab- 

 let in Honor of Professor Volney M. Spald- 

 ing; Smithsonian Begents Meeting 913 



Scientific Notes and News 916 



University and Educational News 918 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Beply to "Methods of Criticism of 'Soil 

 Bacteria and Phosphates ' " : H. J. Wheeler. 

 1916 or 1816: Dr. Ales Hrdlicka 919 



Quotations : — 



Science in Germany from an English View- 

 point 921 



Scientific Books: — 



Soils, their Properties and Management; 

 Chamberlain's Organic Agricultural Chem- 

 istry : Professor C. W. Stoddart 922 



The United States Geological Survey Maps.. . 923 



A New Insect Enemy of the Peach 925 



Special Articles: — 



The Habit of Leaf-oviposition among the 

 Parasitic Hymenoptera: Harry Scott 

 Smith 925 



Societies and Academies: — 



New Orleans Academy of Sciences: R. S. 

 Cocks. The Botanical Society of Washing- 

 ton : H. L. Shantz 926 



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

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

 on-Hu&son. N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



RECENT PROGRESS IN SPECTROS- 

 COPY! 



We should pause a moment to pay a trib- 

 ute of respect to the eminent physicists who 

 have died during the past year. Among 

 these may be named John Oren Reed, of the 

 University of Michigan ; Arthur "W. Wright, 

 one of the pioneers in physical research in 

 this country ; Cleveland Abbe, the father of 

 the Weather Bureau; Sylvanus Thomp- 

 son, the many-sided scholar; Ernst Mach, 

 the philosophic thinker, and Pierre Duhem, 

 the mathematical physicist. We honor 

 these men for their achievements, but we 

 need not grieve that they have left us, for- 

 their full day 's work was done ; but sorrow 

 we must over the needless and untimely 

 end of many young men who had given 

 promise of brilliant careers, and countless 

 others, whose names we shall never know, 

 whose potential genius has been sacrificed 

 to the Moloch which is the mongrel off- 

 spring of the union of a brutish feudalism 

 with the vampire of commercial exploita- 

 tion. While we may form some concep- 

 tion of the loss of life and property in the 

 great war, no one can ever guess the ex- 

 tent of the irreparable loss to humanity 

 caused by the destruction of embryo schol- 

 ars and statesmen, artists and scientists. 

 It is the irony of fate that so many scien- 

 tists have been the victims of the condi- 

 tions arising from ignorance, superstition, 

 greed and devotion to outworn traditions 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section B — -Physics — of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, New York meet- 

 ing, December, 1916. 



