SCIENCE 



Friday, July 19, 1912 



CONTENTS 

 Research Fmmdations in their Eelation to 



Mediome : Professor Hekrt H. Donaldson 65 

 Family Records of Gradiiates of Wesleyan 



University : Frank W. Nicolson 74 



An Index of Fish Environments: V. E. Shel- 



FOKD, W. C. Allee 76 



The Eelation of Horsepower to the Kilowatt . 77 



The Imperial Universities Congress 77 



Scientific Notes and Netvs 78 



University and Educational News 80 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Philippine Sharl's: C. Tate Eegan. Arago- 

 nite coating Gravel Fehhles : Professor 

 Altred C. Lane 81 



Scientific BooJcs: — 

 Bigelow's Theoretical and Physical Chem- 

 istry: Professor Alan W. C. Menzies. 

 Cabot's In Northern Labrador, Sutton's 

 Among the Eshimos of Labrador, Tolle- 

 mache 's Eeminiscenoes of the TuJcon, Laiit 's 

 The Conquest of the Great Northwest: Gen- 

 eral A. W. Greely. Fuller on Sewage 

 Disposal: Professor George C. Whipple . 82 



Scientific Journals and Articles 86 



Becent Work in Systematic Agrostology: A. 

 S. Hitchcock 86 



Special Articles: — 



Rhythmical Activity of Isolated Heart 

 M-iiscle Cells in vitro: Dr. Montrose T. 

 Burrows. On Molecular Cohesion: Profes- 

 sor Albert P. Mathews 90 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Section of Biology of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences: Dr. Wm. K. Gregory 95 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Iludson, N. Y. 



SESEAECH FOUNDATIONS IN THE IB 

 EELATION TO MEDICINE^ 



At this time and place, medicine is the 

 central interest, and therefore, so far as a 

 layman can, it is my purpose to discuss 

 "Research Foundations in their Relation 

 to Medicine," and if possible to do this in 

 such a manner as to reveal their signifi- 

 cance to those for whose encoviragement 

 these ceremonies have been devised. 



To accomplish this I intend first to 

 ask you to consider the mental attitude 

 necessary for the appreciation of research 

 foundations and then to describe these 

 foiindations broadly — trying to indicate 

 their relations to the universities ; the prob- 

 lems which arise in connection with them; 

 the dangers to which they are exposed ; and 

 their significance for the progress of medi- 

 cine, for yourselves and for the develop- 

 ment of the spirit of research. 



You who are about to pass from the dis- 

 cipline of the school to a more self-de- 

 pendent phase of your career feel both the 

 fresh pleasure of restraints outgrown and 

 a questing interest in the coming years. 

 You feel too that, broadly speaking, what 

 will happen to medicine during the next 

 fifty years will also happen to you, and 

 that at any moment some of you may be 

 called upon to g-uide these happenings. 



In the face of such responsibilities it 

 becomes a duty as well as a wise precau- 

 tion, to obtain the broadest possible view 

 across your chosen field and to gain knowl- 

 edge of the larger changes and improve- 

 ments taking place within it. 



You may have done this several times 



'Address at the graduation exercises of the Yale 

 Medical School, June 17, 1912. 



