SCIENCE 



FRroAY, February 16, 1917 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



The OutlooTc for Agricultural Science: Peo- 

 PEssoR Eugene Davenport 149 



Scientific Events: — 

 Sigma Xi in Duluth, Minn.: Dr. Eugene 

 Van Cleep. The Hancock Mineral Collec- 

 tion: Professor John E. Wolpp. The 

 American Academy of Public Health 160 



Scientific Notes and News 162 



University and Educational News 164 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Slides of the Panama Canal : Dr. Ben j. 



L. Miller 164 



Scientific Books: — 

 Lahee's Field Geology: Professor Herd- 

 man F. Cleland. Shafer on the Endocrine 

 Organs: Dr. P. G. Stiles 166 



Hace Hygiene in Norway: Chancellor David 

 Starr Jordan 167 



A Census of the Periodical Literature of Chem- 

 istry published in the United States: Marion 

 E. Sparks and Professor W. A. Notes . . . 168 



The American Society of Naturalists: Pro- 

 fessor Bradley M. Davis 171 



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

 TCTiew should be sent to Professor J. McKeea Cattell, Garrison- 

 Oa-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE OUTLOOK FOR AGRICULTURAL 

 SCIENCEi 



Without wasting time in discussing the 

 question whether there is such a thing as 

 agricultural science, I desire to proceed at 

 once to a brief review of the conditions both 

 favorable and unfavorable to the progress 

 of those scientific activities necessary to the 

 improvement of American agriculture and 

 the welfare of country people upon whom 

 we all depend for our food supply, for the 

 proper employment and treatment of our 

 lands, and for certain human qualities best 

 propagated and preserved in the life of the 

 open country. 



THE PLAN 



No thinking man can fail to be deeply 

 impressed with the magnitude and the far- 

 reaching consequences of what might be 

 called the American program for agricul- 

 tural advancement. 



This program took definite form in 1862 

 in the establishment of a national Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and in the passage of 

 the Land Grant Act, whereby a college of 

 agriculture was established in every state 

 of the union. It was characterized and 

 vitalized a quarter of a century later by 

 subsequent acts providing for an experi- 

 ment station in connection with every agri- 

 cultural college ; and mightily advanced by 

 state appropriations, in some instances 

 multiplying many times the federal sub- 

 sidy. So generous indeed were these appro- 

 priations that the $30,000 of federal funds 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section M, Agriculture, American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, New York, December 

 27, 1916. 



