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SCIENCE 



Friday, June 5, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 Ideals Eelating to Soientiftc Hesearch : Pro- 

 FEssoE G. A. Miller 809 



The Fowidation of the Geological Society of 

 America: The Late Peofessob N. H. 

 WiNCHELL 819 



Alexander Francis Chamberlain : C. W 821 



The General Education Board 822 



The Pacific Association of Scientific Societies. 823 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 824 



University and Educational News 826 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Sas th-e White Man More Chromosomes than 

 the Negro?: Professoe T. H. Morgan. 827 



Scientific Boohs ;— 

 Introduction to the New Statistics: Dr. J. 

 Arthur Harris. Three Text-looTcs in Biol- 

 ogy : Professoe G. H. Parker 828 



The Atomic Weight of Lead of Radioactive 

 Origin 831 



Special Articles: — • 



The Production of Males and Females Con- 

 trolled hy Food Conditions in Hydatina 

 Senta: Professor D. D. Whitney 832 



The American Philosophical Society: Pro- 

 essor Arthur W. Goodspeed 833 



The Biological Society of Washington: W. 

 A. McAtee 844 



M8S. Intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 rerlew should ba sent ta PrefessoT J. McKeen Cattell, Qarrison- 

 m-Ha^SB, IT. Y. 



IDEALS EELATING TO SCIENTIFIC BE- 

 SEABCHi 



One object of this society, according to 

 its constitution, is to establish "fraternal 

 relations among investigators in the scien- 

 tific centers." These relations imply 

 changes in ideals as the body of the investi- 

 gators grows and as its members take 

 higher and higher views as regards social 

 obligations. Our rapid scientific develop- 

 ment in recent years may be compared with 

 the great strides in our financial develop- 

 ment. It has frequently been necessary 

 during this period to enact laws with a view 

 towards higher financial ideals and more 

 just financial relations. Practises which ap- 

 peared tolerable when indulged in on a 

 small scale became intolerable when their 

 influences began to extend to wider circles. 



Hence it seems natural to inquire whether 

 our rapid scientific development has not 

 been attended by practises which appear 

 more and more objectionable. It is also of 

 some interest to look into the future with a 

 view to learning whether some of our schol- 

 arly practises, which do not meet with open 

 disapproval at present, are likely to become 

 intolerable when our scientific life has be- 

 come much more vigorous and when our 

 universities have become much larger and 

 more influential. At any rate, the investi- 

 gator likes to look at facts from a variety of 

 different angles, and he realizes the need of 

 considering also surrounding atmospheric 

 conditions. 



Ideal research is free search. On the 

 other hand, fraternal relations imply fra- 

 ternal obligations. The great army of in- 



1 Read before the Illinois chapter of the Society 

 of the Sigma Xi, May 20, 1914. 



