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 of Science, publisKing the official notices and 

 proceedings of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, edited by J. McKeen 

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



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Vol. LV 



June 16, 1922 



No. 1433 



CONTENTS 



The Maintenance of Scientific Research: Sir 

 Charles Sherrington , 629 



Henry Marion Howe: Professor Wm. Camp- 

 bell 631 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: 



The Salt Lake City Meeting: Professor 

 Burton B. Livingston 633 



Scientific Events: 



The Spencer Fullerton Baird Memorial; 

 International Congress of the History of 

 Medicine; Research Fellowships adminis- 

 tered through the Division of Biology and 

 Agriculture of the National Research 

 Council; American Meteorological Society; 

 Chairmen of the Divisions of the National 

 Research Council; The U. S. Commissioner 

 of Fisheries 634 



Scientific Notes and News 637 



University and Educational Notes 642 



Discussion and Correspondence: 



The Origin of Species: Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan. The Kaieteur Falls: Arthur C. 

 Hardy. Museum Pests feeding on Glycerine 

 Jelly Slides: W. C. Kraatz. Nectarina in 

 Texas: Prank C. Pellett 642 



Scientific Books: 



Bowie on Geodetic Operations in the United 

 States: Dr. John P. Hayford 645 



Special Articles: 



A Haploid Mutant in the Jimson Weed: 

 Dr. a. p. Blakeslee, Dr. John Belling, 

 M. E. Parnh.am and A. Dorothy Bergner. 

 The Mass of the Electron at Slovj Velocity: 

 Professor L. T. Jones and H. O. Holte. 

 The Hydrogen-ion Concentration of Soils 

 as affected by Drying: Dr. Paul S. Bur- 

 gess 646 



The American Philosophical Society: Pro- 

 fessor Arthur W. Goodspeed 649 



THE MAINTENANCE OF SCIENTIFIC 

 RESEARCHi 



Broadly taken, the apparatus of prosecutioa 

 of research in this country is made up as fol- 

 lows: (1) Scientifie and professional societies 

 and some institutions entirely privately sup- 

 ported; (2) universities and colleges, with their 

 scientific departments; (3) institutions, using 

 that term in the widest sense, directly subven- 

 tioned by the state, such for instance as the 

 Medical Eesearch Council, the Development 

 Commission, and the Department of Scientific 

 and Industrial Research. Of these three cate- 

 gories, the fiist named, the scientific societies 

 group, works without financial aid from the 

 state, apart from the small though extremely 

 useful two government grants distributed, 

 mainly to individual workei-s, through the 

 Roj^al Society. At the present time many of 

 the societies sorely need financial help to carry 

 on their labors, and some are absolutely at a 

 loss to know how to publish the scientific re- 

 sults that are brought to them. The second 

 category, the universities and colleges, depends 

 in part upon government aid. In the aggre- 

 gate of twenty-one institutions of university 

 I'ank, following Vice-Chancellor Adami's fig- 

 ures, students' fees and endowment provide 

 about 63.5 per cent, of the total income; for 

 the rest they are dependent on government 

 grant. The third category, as said, draws state- 

 support direct. 



This triple system may seem a somewhat 

 haphazard and incoordinaite assembly. Yet in 

 reality it is an organization with much solid- 

 arity,» and its coordination is becoming more 

 assumed. Its parts dovetail together. The fu-st 

 group, the scientific and professional societies, 

 is provided with a medium of intercommunica- 



1 Prom the presidential address delivered at the 

 anniversary meeting of the Eoyal Society and 

 printed in Nature. 



