SCIEN/CE 



Friday, December 14, 1917 



CONTENTS 

 The Carnegie Institution and the P ,(J.mt. 

 Pkesident Eobekt S. Woodwaed 



573 



Scientific Events: — 

 Conjoint Board of Scientific Studies; V 

 less Time Service in the Philippine I 

 Professor W. A. Noyes and the 

 Chemical Society; The Annual 

 the Biological Societies; T 

 Agriculture of the Ameri' 

 Pittsburgh 



Ari-- 



AmerUdk 



Meetifigs of 



.Ati Section of 



j<m Association at 



Scientific Notes and 

 University and 



' Jfews 



584 



So 



1 ^ucational News 585 



jVi Wid Correspondence ; — 

 c-v&^ad Cientifica Aiitonio Alzate: Dr. 

 ^g!0EiG'E F. KuNz. The Talldng Machine and 

 ihe Phonograph: Professor J. VolnEt 

 Lewis 586 



Scientific Boolcs: — 



Wells on Mental Adjustments: Professor 

 Adolf Meter. Brunt on the Combination of 

 Observations: Professor H. L. Eietz .... 587 



Special Articles: — 



The Production of Gaseous Ions and their 

 Secombination : Professor P. B. Perkins. 589 



The Boston Meetings of the American Chemical 

 Society. Ill 596 



i\ISS. ic*ended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 reWew sboula \)g sent to The Editor of Soienoe, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. V. 



THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION ^^^ , 

 THE PUBLICi 



KECIPROCITY OP P' ^ .^ - 



It is often o- ,„ „,.., 



.^^ 'f?^^' xtsberte.d and more 



oaen taci ^ ar^Sik\ that an endowed al- 

 ^r^r^-stlC afganization acting under a state 

 or a liat^oaal charter may proceed without 

 restefctibns in the development of its work. 

 Thhis, in accordance with this view, the in- 

 stitution is frequently congratulated on its 

 supposed freedom from governmental con- 

 trol and on its supposed immunity from 

 social restraint. But this view is neither 

 consonant with fact nor consistent with 

 sound public policy. All such organiza- 

 tions are properly subject not only to the 

 literal constraints of their charters but 

 also to the commonly more narrow tho^gh^ 

 unwritten limitations imposed by contem-- 

 porary opinion. The ideal to be sought by- 

 them in any case consists in a reciprocity 

 of relations between the individual endow- 

 inent 6n the one hand and the vastly larger 

 and more influential public on the other 

 hand. This ideal, however^ like most: 

 ideals, is rarely fully attainable. Its exist- 

 ence and importance are, indeed, almost as 

 rarely recognized. Hence, any new altru- 

 istic organization is apt to find itself oscil- 

 lating between two extreme dangers: the- 

 one arising from action on the part of the 

 organization prejudicial to public inter- 

 ests ; the other arising from public expec- 

 tations impossible of attainment and there- 

 fore prejudicial to.the organization. 



Happily for the institution, neither of ' 

 these extreme dangers has been seriously 



I Extract from the Eeport of the President of 

 the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. C, 1917. .. 



^ DEC i- 



