SCIENCE 



Friday, Mat 14, 1915 



CONTENTS 



Charles Sedgwick Minot: Dr. Charles W. 

 Eliot 701 



The Stimulation of Growth: Dr. Jacques 

 LOEB 704 



AlasTca Surveys and Investigations 715 



At the Ohio State University 716 



The Washington University Medical School. 717 



Scientific Notes and News 720 



University and Educational News 724 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Isolation of B. radicicola from Soil: Dr. 

 Chas. B. Lipman. a Research Laboratory 

 for the Physical Sciences: S. E. "Williams. 725 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



The Saltan Sea: Professor Francis E. 

 Lloyd 725 



Scientific Besearch and Sigma Xi: Professor 

 J. McKeen Cattell 729 



Badium Fertilizer in Field Tests: Professor 

 Cteil G. Hopkins, Ward H. Sachs 732 



Special Articles: — • 



New Septiles from the Trias of Arizona and 

 New Mexico : Dr. Maurice G. Mehl 735 



Scientific Journals and Articles: — 



The Biological Society of Washington : M. 

 W. Lyons, Jr 735 



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

 reyiew should be sent to Profeaeor J. McKeen Cattail, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT^ 



I WISH to dwell in this paper not on the 

 scientific attainments and successes of 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, but on the men- 

 tal and moral qualities which his career 

 illustrates and which made him what he 

 was. 



Young Minot did not follow the tradi- 

 tional course of education for the son of a 

 well-to-do Boston lawyer. He did not go 

 to Harvard College, but to the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology and his first 

 degree, that of bachelor of science, was ob- 

 tained from that technical school. His 

 major subject in that school was not the 

 common one of engineering, but the un- 

 common one of natural history. He later 

 pursued his studies in this unusual subject 

 at Leipzig, Wiirzburg and Paris. Then, 

 returning to Boston, he took the degree of 

 doctor of science at Harvard University in 

 1878, again in the subject of natural his- 

 tory. His education, therefore, showed his 

 determination in following his bent, and 

 his independence in parting from his boy- 

 hood associates and his family's habitual 

 practise in regard to the education of sons. 



Then, as now, the only career open to stu- 

 dents of natural history was a professor- 

 ship in some branch of that subject, but this 

 was not the career to which Minot looked 

 forward. His studies were all histological 

 and embryological, and their most practical 

 and useful applications seemed to him to 

 lie somewhere in the field of medical sci- 

 ence and education. 



Two years later he accepted two ap- 



1 Address before the Boston Society of Natural 

 History at a memorial meeting held on March 17, 

 1915. 



