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are easily leaders in the domain of knowl- 

 edge based on the exact determinations of 

 atomic weights — a knowledge which leads 

 among other results to habits of more exact, 

 more critical methods in all fields of our 

 science. Arrhenius told us that America 

 is leading in the difficult work of the rigor- 

 ous examination of the theory of ionization 

 and of establishing it on a finished basis. 

 The development of the field of free energy 

 relations is more intensely cultivated, here 

 I imagine, than in any other country. In 

 the application of modern theories of 

 atomic structure and of the electron theory 

 of valence to all branches of chemistry, 

 especially also to organic chemistry, we are, 

 I believe, easily in the front. Our very 

 youth, as a people, has preserved to us in 

 science as in national sentiment, that whole- 

 hearted enthusiasm for ideals, which in 

 world politics has made us the most al- 

 truistic nation on the face of the earth and 

 which in science finds its expression in the 

 pursuit of knowledge for the sake of the 

 pure truth alone, a pursuit characteristic 

 of the best research in our universities and 

 colleges ! 



And so let me conclude my remarks on 

 the outlook for chemistry in America by 

 emphasizing that we have a goodly heritage 

 of success both in our great industries and 

 in our great universities, which will form 

 the safe basis of a brilliant future, if we 

 will but approach the problems of the mo- 

 ment and of the immediate future in char- 

 acteristically American fashion, with a 

 spirit wisely combining altruistic principles 

 with practical, worldly common sense. 

 This means the ' ' square deal ' ' in indus- 

 trial life for the product of the brains of 

 the research chemist, combined with wise 

 laws to insure to capital a fair and toler- 

 ably safe return for investment in chemical 

 industries, needed to make our country 

 chemically independent. And it means too 



the placing of chemistry in our universities 

 on a plane with the other great professions, 

 law and medicine, in order to hold in this 

 great science, so important for the welfare 

 of the nation, the needed numbers of men 

 of brilliant minds and energetic ambitions 

 — combined with the devotion on their part 

 to the search for the truth, for the estab- 

 lishment of the great laws of our science, 

 for the sake of that truth, that science, 

 alone ! 



Julius Steeglitz 

 TJniversitt of Chicago 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE LANE MEDICAL LECTURES 



The sixteenth course of Lane Medical Lec- 

 tures at Stanford University will be delivered 

 by Simon Flexner, M.D., LL.D., director of 

 laboratories, Eockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, ITew York City, N. T., on the even- 

 ings of October 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, 1917, at 

 8 :15 o'clock in Lane Hall, Stanford Uni- 

 versity Medical School, San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia, on " Physical basis and present status 

 of specific serum and drug therapy." 



The titles of the separate lectures are as 

 follows : 



October 8 : Epidemic Meningitis ; Lobar 

 Pneumonia ; Bacillary Dysentery and Spe- 

 cificity in Bactericidal Sera. 



October 9 : Gaseous Gangrene ; Shiga Bacil- 

 lary Dysentery; and the Principles of Homo- 

 serum Therapy. 



October 10: Poliomyelitis and the Prin- 

 ciples of Homoserum Therapy. 



October 11 : Local Specific Therapy as 

 illustrated by the Serum Treatment of Epi- 

 demic Meningitis, Poliomyelitis and Tetanus. 



October 12: Chemotherapy of the Spiro- 

 chetal Infections. 



THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 

 WASHINGTON 



During the season from October, 1917, to 

 April, 1918, inclusive, the Anthropological 

 Society of Washington, D. C, will provide a 

 very interesting program of papers or lee- 



