April 4, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



325 



In 1913 large bodies of tvingsten ore were 

 discovered in the Tungsten Hills, wesi of 

 Bishop. They remained practically unknown 

 until the spring of 1916, when outside interests 

 bought them and began to develop them ener- 

 getically. By midsummer two mills had been 

 completed and were in active operation, and 

 the district has since supplied a large quantity 

 of tungsten. Geologic conditions similar to 

 those in tlie Tungsten Hills prevail over a 

 wide extent of country along the east slope of 

 the Sierra Nevada. The places of contact of 

 the intrusive granites with other rock, shown 

 in the geologic maps accompanying the paper, 

 are the most likely places to prospect for other 

 similar bodies of tungsten ore. 



THE JOURNAL OF " NATURAL HISTORY " 



The Journal of the American Museum of 

 Natural History will hereafter be known as 

 Natural History, being edited as hitherto by 

 Miss Mary Cynthia Dickerson, curator of 

 woods and forestry. The change is announced 

 as follows : 



Attention is called to the change in title of this 

 magazine from American Museum Journal to the 

 old, honorable and historical name Natural History. 

 A change has been contemplated for two years or 

 more, partly to avoid confusion with other publica- 

 tions known as ' ' Museum Journals ' ' and partly 

 because the magazine for these years has not re- 

 stricted itself to a consideration of the American 

 Museum 's work and interests. As expressed many 

 times by the editor in letters to contributors, the 

 magazine would like to feel that it stands as a 

 medium of expression between authoritative science 

 in America and the people, a place for publication 

 of readable articles on the results of the scientific 

 research and thought of the nation for people who 

 are not technically trained. These people have 

 neither time nor desire to pore over technical, un- 

 readable articles, but nevertheless are intelligently, 

 practically and often profoundly interested. Nat- 

 ural History would like to stand for the highest 

 type of authoritative natural history, expressed by 

 the investigators themselves, by explorers, by the 

 accurate observers in laboratory or held. In addi- 

 tion it desires to interpret the technical publica- 

 tions of our scientific thinkers, if not by popular 

 articles by the same authors, then through reviews 

 by other well-known scientific thinkers, these "re- 



views ' ' being, as suggested, readable discussions of 

 the given subject apropos of the technical work. 

 It would also of course report phases of the edu- 

 cational work being accomplished by the scientific 

 departments of the United States government and 

 by the various scientific institutions of the coun- 

 try, especially those of the museum type. 



There has been so much shallow, inaccurate, 

 "popular" science, nature study and natural his- 

 tory, written by persons untrained in science and 

 with distorted imaginations, that a prejudice still 

 remains in the minds of some scientists against 

 putting their observations and conclusions, even 

 when of great value for the layman, into readable 

 form. But the time of such suspicion and condem- 

 nation against thvj mere form of expression of an 

 idea is well-nigh past, and the greatest scientific 

 men of the country are daily proving their willing- 

 ness and desire to write in a way to be understood 

 not only by the trained technical man, but also by 

 the man with no knowledge of the shorthand of 

 the scientific vocabulary. 



We need especially to have a knowledge of na- 

 ture and science to-day. The day of necessity has 

 come for conservation of the world's natural re- 

 sources and preservation of animals fast becoming 

 extinct; there is seen approaching the time of 

 conscious control of evolution; and just ordinary 

 culture demands in the present decade knowledge 

 of science in addition to what it has always de- 

 manded in literature, music and art. And these 

 reasons do not take account of the added joy in 

 life that comes from a knowledge of nature. We 

 people of to-day need to know the book of the 

 earth, to study it as a Bible, feeling the divinity in 

 it. Natural History hopes to meet this need in 

 part. 



DEGREES IN PUBLIC HEALTH 



In view of the impwrtance of arriving at 

 some measure of standardization for the va- 

 rious degrees and certificates offered in the 

 iield of public health, Yale University invited 

 a group of representatives from neighboring 

 imiversities to confer in regard to the matter 

 at New Haven on February 28, 1919. Johns 

 Hopkins University was represented by Dr. 

 W. H. Welch, the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology by Professor W. T. Sedgwick, 

 Harvard University by Dr. M. J. Rosenau, 

 New York University by W. H. Park, and the 

 University of Pennsylvania by Dr. H. F. 

 Smyth; while Yale University was repre- 



