SCIENCE 



FRroAT, March 14, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 The University and Public Health: President 

 George E. Vincent 245 



The Measurement and Utilization of Brain 

 Power in the Army, II 251 



Scientific Events: — 

 Proposed Map of Brazil on the Sc/ile of One 

 to a Million; Scientific Meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association; Proposed Magnetic 

 and Allied Observations during the Total 

 Solar Eclipse of May 19 i!59 



Scientific Notes and News 261 



University and Educational News 263 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 An Appeal from Belgium : Professor Philip 

 P. Calvert. Cross-section Lines on Black- 

 hoards and their Illumination: Dr. Paul 

 P. Gaehk. Concerning the Manufacture of 

 Sulphonic Acids: Secretary D. F. Houston 264 



Scientific Books: — 



The British Antarctic Expedition: Dr. W. 



-H. Dall 



265 



Special Articles: — 

 Sotary Vertigo in the Tail-spin: M. A. 

 Baines 266 



The Galton Society for the Study of tlie Origin 

 and Evolution of Man: Dr. W. K. Gregory 2{)7 



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

 review should be scot to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Uudson. N. Y. 



THE UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC 

 HEALTHi 



' ' The end of our foundation is the knowl- 

 edge of causes, and secret motions of things; 

 the enlarging of the bounds of human em- 

 pire, to the effecting of all things possible." 

 In these words Francis Bacon in ' ' The New 

 Atalantis ' ' summed up the aims of what he 

 called ' ' Salomon 's House ' ' or the ' ' College 

 of the Six Daj-s' "Works." Plato dreamed 

 of a society dominated by guardian philoso- 

 phers ; Sir Thomas More pictured a happy 

 people practising an economic communism; 

 Bacon imagined a sage civilization obedient 

 to science ; he had faith in social progress 

 by research and education. He foreshad- 

 owed with astonishing vision tlie essential 

 features of the modern university. 



Salomon's House was lavishly equipped 

 with buildings' apparatus and other facili- 

 ,ties which would fill one of our faculties 

 with joy, and a board of trustees or a legis- 

 lature with consternation. There were 

 caves, mines, lofty towers, lakes, hydraulic 

 works, laboratories, orchards, gardens, 

 kitchens, sound-houses, perspective houses, 

 furnaces, mechanical shops, "dispensa- 

 tories with shops of medicine," parks for 

 animals ' ' not only for view or rareness, but 

 likewise for dissections and trials that 

 thereby may take light what may be 

 wrought upon the body of man." All this 

 reads like the prospectus of a Western 

 State University with a department of 

 Agriculture and a standardized Medical 

 School. The University of New Atalantis 



1 Abstract of an address delivered at the an- 

 niversary exercises of Johns Hopkins University, 

 Saturday, February 22, 1919, by George E. Vincent, 

 president of the Rockefeller Foundation. 



