SCIENCE 



A Weekly Journal devoted to the Advancement 

 of Science, publishing the ofHcial notices and 

 proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, edited by J. McKeen 

 Cattell and published every Friday by 



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Entered as second-class matter January 21, 1922, at the 

 Post Office at Utica, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



May 19, 1922 



Vol. LV 



Science or Athletics: Peopessor Edwaed G. 

 Mahin 523 



Bugs and Antennce: Db. E. P. Felt 528 



John Casper Branner 530 



Scientific Events: 



A Count of Birds; The Chemical Exposi- 

 tion; Fellowships in Mining Research; 

 Exchange Professor to France in Engineer- 

 ing and Applied Science 531 



Scientific Notes and News 534 



University and Educational Notes 537 



Discussion and Correspondence: 



Decerebration in Birds: Dr. Frank W. 

 Weymouth. The Bite of Lactrodectus 

 Mactans : Professor J. E. Watson. Water- 

 Immersion Objectives: Dr. Albert Mann.. 538 



Quotations : 



Health Organization of the League of Na- 

 tions 540 



Special Articles: 



The Domestic Fowl as a Source of Immune 

 Hemolytic Sera: Dr. Roscoe R. Hyde 541 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: 



Tucson Meeting of the Southivestern Divi- 

 sion 542 



SCIENCE OR ATHLETICS?! 



Theee has never been a period in the history 

 of science when educational questions relating 

 to its advancement have appeared to possess 

 such interest or when discussions have dealt so 

 freely with the shortcomings of the educational 

 system in its relation to the training of students 

 of science. On the one hand is an intensely 

 practical industrial world, insisting upon a 

 close scrutiny of the content of the college 

 courses and of the methods used in administer- 

 ing them, — from the standpoint of their imme- 

 diate practical application to industrial prob- 

 lems and from this standpoint alone, — while 

 on the other is the world of the college teacher, 

 seeing or thinking it sees much in science and 

 in the teaching of science that is not to be 

 judged in this limited fashion. We are turned 

 this way and that in the attempt to see all 

 viewpoints and to make use of all constructive 

 advice. We desire that our students shall be 

 as well equipped as possible in whatever of 

 science it is possible to teach them in the time 

 that is allotted to us, so that when they leave 

 us to take up their share in the general ad- 

 vancement of science thej' shall be able to 

 acquit themselves honorably and to add what- 

 ever they may in the application of science to 

 the problem of increasing the happiness and 

 comfort of humanity. 



Chemical education has not been spared in 

 this discussion. Rather has it been the center 

 of the major part of the discussion, for in no 

 other single science has there been so spectacu- 

 lar and so amazing a success in research and 

 in the tangible results of the application of 

 research to practical problems. It has there- 

 fore come about that thei'e is no other science 

 in which it is more important that the college 



1 Bead before the Section on Chemical Educa- 

 tion at the Birmingham meeting, April, 1922. 

 Contribution from tlie Department of Chemistry, 

 Purdue University. 



