SCIENCE 





V'onr 



Friday, August 3, 1917 



CONTENTS 

 The WorTi of the National Sesearch Council. . 99 



Psychology and National Service: Professor 

 E. M. Yeekes 101 



William Bulloch Clarice 104 



Scientific Events: — 

 The Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the 

 American Museum of Natural History; War 

 Service of Chemists; The Boston Meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society 106 



Scientific Notes and News 109 



University and Educational News Ill 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Seply to Br. Erlanger: Dk. A. M. Bleile. 

 Faunal Conditions in Sotiih Georgia: Eob- 

 EKT CusHMAN MuKPHY. A Personal and 

 Family History Eegister: Peofessob 

 Chakles W. TTargitt. Eewards for National 

 Service: X HI 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 MiyaJce's Treatise on Entomology : Dk. L. 

 O. HOTVAKD 113 



Herb-groioing iji the British Empire 114 



Special Articles: — 



The Chemical Basis of Regeneration and 

 Geotropism: Db. Jacques Loeb 115 



The American Chemical Society 119 



MSS. Intended for poblication and books, etc.. Intended for 

 reTiew should bo sent to Professor J. lIcKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE WORK OF THE NATIONAL 

 RESEARCH COUNCIL 



As has already beea announced, the 

 National Research Council is acting as a 

 department of the Council of National De- 

 fense, dealing with the organization of 

 science and research as affected by the 

 war. 



Direct connection with the work of the 

 Army and Navy, both at home and in the 

 field, has also been established. Brigadier 

 CTeueral George 0. Squier, chief signal 

 officer, has recently addressed the follow- 

 ing letter to the chairman of the Research 

 Council : 

 Dr. George E. Hale, 



Chairman, National Research Council, 

 Munsey Building, 

 Washington, D. C. 



My dear Br. Hale: In the Signal Corps ques- 

 tions involving the selection and organization of 

 large numbers of scientific men and the solution of 

 research problems are constantly arising. The Na- 

 tional Research Council, organized at the request 

 of the President, and acting as a department of the 

 Council of National Defense, in close cooperation 

 with similar bodies abroad, has federated and co- 

 ordinated the scientific resources of the country 

 and concentrated them upon the solution of 

 military problems. It is accordingly the one 

 agency in a position to meet the present needs of 

 the Signal Corps. 



I therefore request the Research Council to act 

 as the advisory agent of the Signal Corps in the 

 organization of its various scientific services and 

 the solution of research problems. To this end I 

 would suggest that Dr. Robert A. MUlikan, vice- 

 chairman and executive officer of the Research 

 Council, apply for a major's commission in the 

 Officers ' Reserve Corps, for detaU in charge of this 

 work. Very truly yours, 



George O. Squier, 

 Brigadier General, 



July 2, 1917 C. S. 0. 



