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the congregation when Dr. Douglas preached 

 his sermon. Marcus Benjamin 



THE MANUFACTURE OF APPARATUS AND 

 CHEMICALS 



To THE Editor of Science : It has often 

 occurred to me that it would be beneficial to 

 science if some of the large universities of 

 this country would cooperate to build a factory 

 where chemicals and apparatus would be manu- 

 factured and sold to the various scientific in- 

 stitutions at a correct margin of profit. Per- 

 haps the Eockefeller or Carnegie Foundation 

 could be interested in such a project. The 

 majority of fellow investigators and univer- 

 sity professors would welcome such an arrange- 

 ment, for it would make material accessible 

 which is difiicult to obtain otherwise and might 

 be an important soirrce of instruction to indus- 

 trial chemists and physicists. 



Louis Baumann 

 The State Universitt op Iowa 



LORD LISTER ON THE VALUE OF VIVISECTION 



To THE Editor of ScrENCE: In reference to 

 the letter from Lord Lister to myself published 

 in Science of March 30, 1917, I beg leave to 

 make this explanation. Recently the original 

 copy of this letter has been found. It is dated 

 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, London, 

 West, 4th of April, 1898, and addressed to 

 myself. Just after its receipt I handed it to a 

 friend to use in connection with the hearing 

 before the United States Senate on the Gal- 

 linger Bill relating to animal experimentation 

 in the District of Columbia. My friend pre- 

 sented it at the hearing and it is published in 

 the pamphlet relating to that hearing. 



When Sir Rickman Godlee sent me a copy 

 of the " rough draft " of this letter not long 

 ago, saying if it had been received he would 

 like to publish it in his " Life of Lord Lister," 

 I went with great care over all of my letters 

 and could not fijid the original. As it was 

 almost a score of years since it had been re- 

 ceived I had quite forgotten it and came to the 

 conclusion that either it had gone astray in the 

 mails or had never been sent. It has been 

 returned to me and I have placed it in the 



Library of the College of Physicians of 

 Philadelphia. W. W. Keen 



Philadelphia, Pa., 

 March 31, 1917 



QUOTATIONS 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION AND WORK IN 

 AGRICULTURE 



The annual meeting of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science is 

 one of the great scientific events of the year. 

 It is a vast clearinghouse for ideas and results 

 in science, and for the testing and molding of 

 views. It presents the largest forum in this 

 country for healthy, tempered but searching 

 criticism in science, without which science be- 

 comes self-complacent, lax and unexacting in 

 its requirements. 



Beyond this, such a meeting of men associ- 

 ated with the various branches of science has a 

 remarkably broadening infiuence. One gets 

 new insight, suggestion and inspiration from 

 such a contact of minds, such a presentation 

 of evidence, such a weighing and testing of re- 

 sults and of views. The individual finds anew 

 that his branch of science or his specialty has 

 relations beyond the narrow limits in which he 

 has been considering it, and that there is not 

 only an interest in following this broader rela- 

 tion, but a danger unless he does that he may 

 specialize too closely in his thinking and view 

 his subject out of focus. 



Hence it seems worth while for the man of 

 science to foregather from time to time with 

 his colleagues in the annual convocation, worth 

 the time and worth the money outlay. This is 

 not so much to listen to papers which might be 

 read or to present a report which might be pub- 

 lished, but to keep his mind from narrowing, 

 to maintain a contact with science which is 

 well nigh impossible otherwise, and an asso- 

 ciation which contributes so much to the zeal 

 and the satisfaction of a scientific career. It 

 brings him definitely into membership in that 

 great fraternity of workers in the broad field 

 of science — some for its own sake, some for its 

 relations to human welfare, all having the com- 

 mon purpose to advance knowledge and under- 

 standing. It was the belief in such advantages 

 that led thousands of men and women to jour- 



