SCIENCE 



Friday, June 11, 1915 



CONTENTS 



Before and After Lister: Dr. W. W. Keen . . 845 



LadySnggins: Professor Sarah F. Whiting. 853 



The Vmversity of Minnesota and the Mayo 

 Foundation 855 



Conditions at the University of Utah 856 



The Pacific Division of the American Associa- 

 tion 857 



Scientific Notes and Neios 857 



University and Educational News 862 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Complexity of the Alexandrian Series: 

 Charles Keyes. Alabama Argillocea in 

 Minnesota: William Moore. Chemihy- 

 drometry: B. F. Groat. Eye Shades for 

 Microscopical Worlc: X 863 



Scientific Books: — 



Suntington on the Climatic Factor as Il- 

 lustrated in Arid North America: Pro- 

 fessor Francis E. Lloyd 864 



The Proceedings of the National Academy of 

 Sciences: Professor Edwin Bidwell 

 Wilson 868 



Special Articles: — 

 A Modification of the Bellani Porous Plate 

 Atmometer: Professor Burton E. Living- 

 ston. The Effect of Temperature on the 

 Life Cycle of Musca domestica and Culex 

 pipiens: S. D. Kramer 872 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington : M. 

 W. Lyon, Jr. The Botanical Society of 

 Washington: Dr. Perlet Spaulding. The 

 Anthropological Society of Washington : Dr. 

 Daniel Folkmar. The Indiana Academy 

 of Sciences: F. B. Wade. The New Or- 

 leans Academy of Sciences: Professor E. 

 S. Cocks. The American Philosophical So- 

 ciety 877 



M3S. Intended for publication and books, etc., intended fo» 

 raview should be sent to Pxofessor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudaon, N. Y^ 



BEFOEE AND AFTER LISTEM^ 

 LECTURE I, "before LISTER " 



On July 1, 1861, I entered the service of 

 the State of Massachusetts as assistant sur- 

 geon of the Fifth Massachusetts, and on 

 July 4 was sworn into the service of the 

 United States in the shadow of yonder 

 eapitol. On August 1 I was honorably dis- 

 charged and resumed my medical studies 

 at the Jefferson Medical College. Strange 

 as it now seems, when assistant surgeon I 

 was not yet a graduate in medicine. As an 

 evidence of the loose way in which medical 

 and military matters were then conducted, 

 I was actually appointed without any exam- 

 ination whatever. 



After graduating in March, 1862, 1 again 

 entered the service in May, after an exam- 

 ination, and was ordered to the Eckington 

 Hospital in the then outskirts of Washing- 

 ton. Shortly afterwards I was ordered to 

 fit up two churches as hospitals and to have 

 them ready in five days. It was 5 p.m. on 

 a Saturday afternoon. 



People sometimes imagine that a practising 

 physician can be transformed into an army sur- 

 geon merely by putting a uniform on him. I was 

 not lacking in ordinary intelligence and was will- 

 ing to work, but I was utterly without training. 

 To get those two churches ready as hospitals I had 

 to have beds, mattresses, sheets, pillow-cases, 

 chairs, tables, kitchen utensils, knives, forks, 

 spoons, peppers and salts, all sorts of crockery 

 and other necessities for a dining-room, all the 

 drugs, appliances and instruments needed for two 

 hundred sick and wounded men; I needed orderlies, 

 cooks and the endless odds and ends of things 

 which go to make up a well-organized hospital. I 

 did not know how to get a single one of these 

 requisites. As to drugs, I did not know whether 



1 Two lectures before the U. S. Army Medical 

 School, Washington, D. C, April 27 and 28, 1915. 



