L NOV 2 6 1921 ^, 



SCIENCE 



Friday, November 25, 1921. 



Education in relation to Public Sealth and 

 Medical Practise: PsorESSOE S. J. Holmes. 503 



The Relation of the Technical School to Indus- 

 trial Research : Alpred D. Flinn 508 



The Present Status of University Men in 

 Russia: Dr. Vernon Kellogg 510 



Scientific Events: 



Grants for Research of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science; 

 Map of the North Pacific Ocean; The 

 Steamer " Albatross "; Mulford Explora- 

 tion in Bolivia; The Eclipse Expeditions to 

 Christmas Island 511 



Scientific Notes and News 514 



University and Educational Notes 516 



Discussion and Correspondence : 



Positive Ray Analysis of Zinc: Dr. A. J. • 

 Dempster. The Rediscovery and Validity of 

 Area lithodamus Sowerby : Dr. Carlotta J. 

 Maury. The Geographical Distribution of 

 Hybrids: Professor E. 0. Jeffrey. The 

 Ray Society: Professor G. H. Parker 516 



Scientific BooTcs: 

 Russell on The Analysis of Mind. Profes- 

 sor Cassius J. Keyser 518 



Testimonial to Dean S. L. Russell 520 



Special Articles : 



The Quantitative Basis of the Polar Char- 

 acter of Regeneration in Bryophyllum: Dr. 

 Jacques Loeb. Tlw Scattering of Electrons 

 by NicTcel: Dr. C. Davisson and C. H. 

 KuNSMAN. The Atomic Weight of Boron: 

 Professor G. P. Baxter and A. P. Scott. . 521 



The American Chemical Society: Professor 

 Charles L. Parsons 525 



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EDUCATION IN RELATION TO PUBLIC 



HEALTH AND MEDICAL 



PRACTISE 1 



Perhaps the most obvious thing that can 

 be said in regard to education in relation to 

 matters of health and medical practise is that 

 such education is sadly needed. I may state 

 the matter rather more strongly by saying 

 that ignorance on these subjects is directly 

 responsible in the United States alone for the 

 loss of several hundred thousand lives each 

 year, and an amount of sickness and suffering 

 which we can express in no adequate meas- 

 ure. Ignorance of the laws of health, of the 

 causes of disease, of how to avoid epidemics; 

 ignorance of how to take care of children in 

 the perilous period of infancy; ignorance of 

 how to secure the proper medical aid in case 

 of sickness and of how to take care of one's 

 self or dependents when ill, — ignorance in 

 one form or another is probably the most 

 potent of all the allies of the angel of death. 



The maintenance of life, whether in man 

 or in lower animals, always implies an ade- 

 quate adjustment of the organism to its en- 

 vironment. Since relatively few human 

 beings die of old age, most death can be at- 

 tributed to failure to make the proper ad- 

 justments. Among the things that our organ- 

 ism has to guard against are enemies of 

 various sorts, lack of the proper quantity and 

 quality of food, vicissitudes of climate, acci- 

 dents and diseases, and it is obvious that the 

 more we know of the various agencies that 

 cause people to die, the more successful we 

 shall be in avoiding or overcoming them. If 

 one goes over the most common causes of 

 death enumerated in the U. S. Mortality 

 Statistics, he can not fail to be impressed 



1 Bead before the Symposium on Science and the 

 Public Health, held under the auspices of the Pacific 

 Division of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, Berkeley, CaUf ., Aug. 4, 1921. 



