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Friday, February 28, 1919 



COyTEVTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Some Besponsibilities of Botanical Science: 

 Professor Bdrton Edward Livingston 199 



Industrial Eesearch in Ontario and Prussia 

 Compared: A. F. Hunter 20S 



Scientific Events: — 



The London Imperial College; Classification 

 of Lands by the Geological Survey; Civil 

 Service Examinations; The Committee on 

 Grants of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science '.09 



Scientific Notes and News 211 



University and Educational News 214 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Electro-thermo Segulator for Water Baths: 

 Chester I. Hall. Common Numerals: Pro- 

 fessor G. A. Miller. Psychological Ee- 

 search for Aviators: Professors E. L. 

 Thorndike, Knigut Dunlap 214 



Quotations : — 

 The History of Influenza 216 



Scientific Bools: — 



Wade's Text-book of Precious Stones: Dr. 

 Oliver C. Farrington 217 



Special Articles: — 



Pink Boot of Onions: J. J. Taubenhaus. 

 A Chromosome Difference between the Sexes 

 of Spluerocarpos iexanus: Martha A. 

 Sen ACKE 217 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section M — Agriculture: Dr. E. W. Allen. 219 



M8S. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review ibould be lent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



SOME RESPONSIBILITIES OF BOTAN- 

 ICAL SCIENCEi 



When this meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science was 

 first announced it was the expectation of all of 

 us that our discussions and deliberations here 

 would center primarily about the immediate 

 and practical needs of a time of war. In 

 those days the thought seemed common in 

 this country, that it was the plain duty of sci- 

 entists to lay their more remote aims aside for 

 the time being and to devote their energies al- 

 most entirely to practicalities, the practicali- 

 ties of those great martial undertakings whose 

 wonderfully successful results have only just 

 now passed into history. But it has become 

 clear that the needs of a modern militant na- 

 tion are not merely men and money ; the rami- 

 fications of these needs seem to have led into 

 nearly every cranny of human activity, so that 

 almost every person has found ways by which 

 his special fitness, for some activities rather 

 than for others, might be utilized in this g^'ond 

 mobilization of the nation as a whole. In 

 very many cases it has appeared that the more 

 remote aims of those whose activities are pri- 

 marily intellectual and spiritual are not to be 

 laid wholly aside at the sounding of the 

 trumpet of war and at the waving of the bat- 

 tle flag. It has emerged that most or all of 

 those activities that may truthfully be called 

 essential for peace and for the general advance- 

 ment, are also essential in time of war. De- 

 tails have required alteration, but the war has 

 led, on the whole, rather to an acceleration, to 

 a speeding-up of the majority of productive 

 peace activities, rather than to tlie laying of 

 such activities aside. 



War differs from peace rather in degree than 



1 Address of the chairman and vice-president of 

 Section G — Botany, American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Baltimore, December, 

 1918. 



