SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 7, 1915 



CONTENTS 



The Contribution of the Chemist to the Indus- 

 trial Development of the United States: Dr. 

 Bebnhabb C. Hesse 665 



The Gray Serbarium 675 



Elisha Wilson Morse : Lewis William Fetzer. 677 



Scientific Notes and News 677 



University and Educational News 6S1 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



On the Production of Bare Gases in Vacuum 

 Tubes : Dr. Egbert H. Goddard. The Funda- 

 mental Equation of Mechanics: Propessob 

 L. M. HosKiNS. Unnatural History: Pro- 

 fessor C. C. Nutting. Conditions at the 

 University of Utah: Professors John 

 Dewey, A. O. Lovejot, Edwin E. A. 

 Seligman 682 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Zinsser on Infection and Resistance: Pro- 

 fessor C. M. HilliarD'. Beichert's The Dif- 

 ferentiation and Specificity of Starches in 

 Belation to Genera and Species: De. Henry 

 Kraemeb 686 



Special Articles: — 



Thel Osmotic Properties of Different Kinds 

 of Muscle: Dr. Edward B. Meigs. On the 

 Taxonomy of the Procyonidce: Dr. E. W. 

 Shufeldt 689 



The National Academy of Sciences: Dr. Ae- 

 THUB L. Day 692 



The New Orleans Meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. C. L. Parsons 697 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor P. N. Cole 698 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Utah Academy of Sciences: A. O. GxVB- 

 EETT. Th-e Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ington : De. Daniel Folkmab 699 



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

 review sbould be sent to Professor J. McEeen Cattell, Garrlson- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



TSE CONTRIBUTION OF TBE CBEMIST TO 



THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT 



OF THE UNITED STATES^ 



Since the outbreak of the European War, 

 the American public has been led, adroitly 

 or otherwise, to believe that industrial 

 chemistry, that is, the industrial activity 

 of the chemist, is limited to coal-tar dyes 

 and that nothing should be regarded as in- 

 dustrial chemistry that does not deal with 

 the manufacture of these dyes. Nothing 

 could be further from the truth. 



While it is true that the manufacture of 

 coal-tar dyes forms an important branch 

 of industrial chemistry, or of chemical in- 

 dustry, whichever you will, it by no means 

 forms the whole of it or even a preponder- 

 ating part of it. 



From the economic point of view, eco- 

 nomic effect and economic result is the 

 measure to apply in determining economic 

 importance and not the intellectual or sci- 

 entific labor involved in the creation of 

 that result. 



From a strictly economic point of view 

 coal-tar dyes can hardly be said to be vital 

 or essential and by that I mean that we 

 can get along without them and not suffer 

 great hardship, personal or otherwise; 

 anything of less need than that can hardly 

 be called an economic necessity. 



THE CHEMIST AND HIS WORK 



The American public has seemingly 

 given too little consideration to those in- 

 dustries of this country that make use of 

 chemical knowledge and experience in the 



1 From the public address at the fiftieth meeting 

 of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, 

 March 31 to April 3, 1915. 



