SCIENCE 



Friday, July 6, 1917 



CONTENTS 

 The delation of Chemical Laboratories to the 

 National Welfare: Db. William A. Noyes. 1 



Military Geology: Professor Joseph E. 

 PceuE 8 



Scientific Events: — 



Tuberculosis and the French Army; Med- 

 ical WorTcinBrasil; Becommendations of the 

 Third Interstate Cereal Conference ; Organi- 

 zation of the Engineering Council 10 



Scientific Notes and News 13 



University and Educational News 15 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 An Institute for the History of Science and 

 Civilization: Aksel G. S. Josephson. 

 Popular Names of Plants : Professor M. A. 

 BiGELOTV 15 



Quotations : — 



Technical College Graduates in War Time; 

 Discoveries and Inventions 17 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Books on Food: Pkopessob Graham' Lusk. 18 



Special Articles: — 



The Theory of Sex as stated in terms of 

 Sesults of Studies on Pigeons: Professor 

 Oscar Riddle 19 



MBS. Intended for publication and books, etc.. Intended for 

 TCTlew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cmttell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE RELATION OF CHEMICAL LABOR- 

 ATORIES TO THE NATIONAL 

 WELFAREi 



For two years and a half the world has 

 been in a ferment. On the basis of an inci- 

 dent which now seems trivial, the mutual 

 jealousies and distrust of the nations of Eu- 

 rope precipitated a war in which the inter- 

 ests of all the nations of the world are in- 

 volved. Those of us who think that our 

 race is progressing toward better condi- 

 tions can not but believe that there will 

 grow out of this war some better method of 

 settling differences between nations. The 

 duel as a means of settling private quarrels 

 has long since disappeared in England and 

 America. It must surely cease as a means 

 of settling quarrels between nations. It 

 seems certain that the time will come when 

 the world will look back to these years as a 

 time of madness like the madness that drove 

 men to the crusades of the middle ages. 



"With all the loss and waste and dreadful 

 suffering of these years the nations of the 

 world are learning some lessons which 

 would not have been learned in times of 

 peace. Russia has solved her liquor prob- 

 lem for the time being. Germany enforces 

 a democratic equality in the distribution of 

 food which is beyond the wildest dream of 

 the socialists. Bread is distributed by 

 cards and the wealthiest citizen can get no 

 more than the day laborer. England has 

 solved the problem of the unemployed — 

 there is no longer a "submerged tenth" for 

 whom conditions are iitterly hopeless. One 

 of my friends who has been in London with 



1 An address delivered at the dedication of the 

 chemical laboratory of the tTniversity of Oklahoma, 

 January 26, 1917. 



