SCIENCE 



Friday, March 5, 1915 



CONTENTS 



The Value of Zoology to Sumanity: — 

 The Cultural Value of Zoology: Professor 

 Edwin Grant Conklin 333 



The Value of Scientific Genealogy: Dr. 

 Chas. B. Davenport 337 



The Eugenics Movement as a Fu'blic Serv- 

 ice : Professor G. H. Parker 342 



Preparedness for Peace: Dr. Stewart 

 Paton 348 



John Muir: William Frederic BadS 353 



do Notes and News 355 



and Educational News 358 



and Correspondence: — 

 The History of Science: Dr. Frederick E. 

 Brasch 358 



Scientific Books: — 

 Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard: Gen- 

 eral A. W. Greelt. Lange's The Lower 

 Amazon : President John C. Branner 360 



Botanical Notes: — 



Another Applied Botany BooTc; Cybele 

 Colv/miiana; Short Notes: The Late Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Bessey 364 



Special Articles: — 



A Fourth Mallophagan Species from the 

 Eoatzin: Professor Vernon L. Kellogg. 

 The Toxicity of Insecticides: Professor C. 

 "W. WOODWORTH 365 



The American Society of Naturalists: Dr. 

 Beadlbt M. Davis 369 



The American Society for Experimental 

 Pathology : De. George H. Whipple 370 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson. N. Y. 



THE VALVE OF ZOOLOGY TO HUMANITY^ 

 THE CVLTUBAL VALVE OF ZOOLOGY 



All sciences are so interrelated that it 

 is not easy to point out the distinctive con- 

 tributions of any one science to human 

 welfare, and in particular I have found it 

 impossible to separate zoology from other 

 biological sciences in this regard. Accord- 

 ingly, in what I shall say it will be under- 

 stood that I am speaking for all the bio- 

 logical sciences and not for zoology alone. 



Again culture is no single definite object, 

 but a general and rather indefinite ideal. 

 There are many kinds of culture — physical, 

 intellectual, moral, esthetic, religious, gov- 

 ernmental, etc. — but each and all forms of 

 culture may be regarded from the stand- 

 point of the individual or from that of 

 society; the former we call education, the 

 latter civilization. 



I. CONTRIBUTIONS OF BIOLOGY TO EDUCATION 



The method' of the scientist is to general- 

 ize only from particular objects or phe- 

 nomena, and a naturalist, if asked what 

 the cultural value of biology is, would ask 

 to see some of the specimens. The members 

 of this society are my specimens, my living 

 exhibits of the cultural value of biology. 

 What are your distinctive cultural char- 

 acteristics? To avoid the personal error 

 it would have been well to have asked each 

 one of you to describe the characteristics of 

 some other member of the society, but ma- 

 king allowance for the personal error, I 

 believe that the biologist shows the follow- 

 ing qualities: 



1. Immense enthusiasm and intense con- 



1 Four papers in a symposium before the Amer- 

 ican Society of Naturalists, Philadelpliia, De- 

 cember 31, 1914. 



