SCIENCE 



Friday, June 6, 1919 



CONTENTS 

 Sir Joseph Hooker: Pkofessor T. D. A. Cock- 



ERELL 525 



A Suggestion from Ploto with others: Dr. A. 

 W. Meyer 530 



The Soosevelt Wild-life Forest Experiment 

 Station: Dr. Charles C. Adams 533 



Gabriel Marcus Green 534 



Scientific Events: — 



Inter-allied Cooperation in Chemistry; The 

 British Imperial Antarctic Expedition-; Out- 

 line Map of the United States; The LeConte 

 Memorial Lectures in the Tosemite 535 



Scientific Notes and News 538 



University and Edueational News 540 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Cumberland Falls Meteorite: Dr. 

 Arthur M. Miller. On the Auroral Dis- 

 play: Dr. Charles F. Brooks. The Meet- 

 ing of Plant Pathologists on Long Island 

 to discuss Potato Diseases 541 



Scientific Boolcs: — 



Appendages of Trilobites: G. E. Brigham. 543 



Special Articles: — 



Presoaking as a Means of preventing Seed 

 Injury due to Disinfectants and of Increas- 

 ing Germicidal Efficiency: Harry Bbaun.. . 544 



The American Philosophical Society: Pro- 



FESSOK ASTHUB W. GOODSPEED 545 



M8&. iDtcoded (or 'publication a&d books, etc., intended for 

 r«view ehouJd be aent to The Editor of Science, Garriflon-ci^ 

 HudMU, N. Y. 



SIR JOSEPH HOOKERi 



With the passage of time the importance at- 

 tached to persons and events becomes strangely 

 altered. History, to be of value to posterity, 

 must be both more and less than a faithful 

 chronicle of the past. Less, if only to bring 

 it within intelligible limits; more, because it 

 must see cauises in relation to effects, em- 

 phasizing the inconspicuous beginnings of new 

 developments. For such reasons, the judgment 

 of posterity will nearly always differ from that 

 of contemporaries; not necessarily because 

 posterity is endowed with superior wisdom, but 

 rather because the basis of judgment is differ- 

 ent. Sir Joseph Hooker and his father. Sir 

 "William Hooker (1785-1865), were both bot- 

 anists of the highest eminence, their combined 

 activities covering more than a century. As 

 we review their careers, we do not know which 

 to admire most. The son, without the slight- 

 est false modesty, always insisted on his 

 father's preeminence, giving good reasons for 

 his judgment. It was William Hooker who, 

 with extraordinary energy and enthusiasm, 

 had created great botanical centers, first at 

 Glasgow, and then for the whole British Em- 

 pire at Kew. When the work was most diffi- 

 cult and recognition hardest to obtain, he had 

 won support and respect; and had laid the 

 foundations on which his son was to build. 

 It is difficult for us, to-day, to realize the labor 

 and vision required to build up the establish- 

 ment at Kew, in the face of ignorance and 

 opposition. It is difficult for jxjsterity to do 

 full justice to the elder Hooker, just because 

 we can no longer clearly visualize the environ- 

 ment in which he lived. His work, everywhere 

 woven into the fabric of modem botany, has 

 few outstanding or picturesque features. In 

 the case of Sir Joseph Hooker, the imagina- 



1 Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Booker. 

 By Lecixard Hi'xley. 2 vols. New York, D. 

 Appleton & Co. 1918. 



