SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 16, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 The American Society of Zoologists: — 

 Methods of Securing Better Cooperation 

 betxceen Go-vcrnment as»cl Lahoratory Zoolo- 

 gists in 11w Solution of Problems of Na- 

 tional Importance : Dr. L. O. Howard, Pro- 

 fessor J. G. Needham 453 



The National Eesearch Council: — 

 The Organization of the National Research 

 Council; Membership of Divisions; Ee- 

 search Fellowships 458 



The Industrial Fellowships of the Mellon In- 

 stitute 462 



Scientific Events: — 

 Mineral Deposits in tlie United States; Sum- 

 mer Biological Stations; Distinguished Serv- 

 ice Medals 465 



Scientific Notes and News 467 



University and Educational News 470 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 An Immune Variety of Sugar Cane: C. O. 

 TowNSEND. The Use of Poison Gas: Henry 

 Leffmann 470 



Scientific Books: — 

 Eenaissance Anatomy: Eoy L. Moodie .... 472 



Special Articles: — 



Certain Conglomeratic Struettires in Lime- 

 stones in Central Pennsylvania: Harry N. 

 Eaton 474 



Minutes of the Committee on Policy of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science 474 



The Utoii Academy of Sciences: C. Arthur 

 Smith 475 



The Kansas Academy of Science: E. A. "White. 476 



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

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

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



METHODS OF SECURING BETTER CO" 

 OPERATION BETWEEN GOVERN- 

 MENT AND LABORATORY ZOOL- 

 OGISTS IN THE SOLUTION OF 

 PROBLEMS OF GENERAL OR 

 NATIONAL IMPORTANCE! 



Let us admit at once that government bu- 

 reaus have great difficulty in getting men 

 trained for their work. Let us go further, 

 and admit that government bureaus have prac- 

 tically, except for certain fundamentals, to 

 train their own men. Let us acknowledge 

 also that the men in charge of the biological 

 laboratories of the universities of the country 

 are ready and anxious to train their men to 

 be of the greatest iwssible service to the coun- 

 try, and that this readiness and this anxiety 

 have been intensified by the great crisis 

 through which we have been and are still 

 passing. 



How is this to be brought about? Plainly 

 by a very perfect miderstanding and sympathy 

 between the men in charge of the government 

 bureaus and the men in charge of the uni- 

 versity laboratories. 



Although this suggestion has been made a 

 number of times (I made it myself twenty 

 years ago in an address before the American 



1 A symposium before the American Society of 

 Zoologists, held at Baltimore on December 26, 1918, 

 Professor C. E. McCliing presiding, included papers 

 and discussions as follows: Representing the Bu- 

 reau of Entomology, Dr. L. O. Howard. Discus- 

 sion by J. G. Needham, representing the Bureau of 

 Fisheries, Dr. Hugh M. Smith. Discussion of Dr. 

 H. B. Ward. Representing the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, Dr. B. H. Ransom. Discussion by Dr. 

 Herbert Osborn. Representing the Bureau of Bio- 

 logical Survey, Dr. E. W. Nelson. Discussion by 

 Dr. R. K. Nabours. Relation of the Council of 

 National Defense and the National Research 

 Council to the Advancement of Research, Dr. John 

 C. Merriam. 



