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A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 
OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
EDITORIAL ComMITTEE : §S. Nrewcomsp, Mathematics; R. S. WoopwaRpD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy ; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics ; R. H. THuRsTON, Engineering ; IrA ReMSEN, Chemistry ; 
. 
JosErH LE ConTE, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; HENRY F. OsBoRN, Paleontology ; 
W. K: Brooxs, C. HART MeRRIAM, Zoology ; S. H. ScuppER, Entomology ; C. E. BEssEY, 
N. L. Brirron, Botany; C. S. Minor, Embryology, Histology; H. P. Bowpircn, 
Physiology; J. 8S. BILLINGs, 
Hygiene ; 
WittrAM H..WeEtcH, Pathology ; 
J. McKEEN Carre, Psychology ; J. W. PowELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, Marcu 22, 1901. 
CONTENTS : 
The Oondition, Prospects and Future Educational 
Demands of the Chemical Industries: DR. WM. 
IWIGIN GOTRRIAIND caoscoconscosoononRanHde adsoacandbeR005000000 441 
Man’s Place in Nature: W J MCGEE........ Retest 453 
Thomas Benton Brooks :, BAILEY WILLIS............ 460 
Scientific Books :— 
The Appreciation of Non-Euclidian Geometry : 
PROFESSOR GEORGE BRUCE HALSTED. Allen’s 
Commercial Organic Analysis: Dr. G.S. FRAPS. 
Hickson on Alcyonium: J. P. MCM.............--- 462 
Scientific Journals and ALGTTAEEG dea oe oaancqnosusscances: 466 
Societies and Academies :— 
New York Academy of Sciences, Section of Biol- 
ogy: Dr. Henry E. Crampron. Section of 
Anthropology and Psychology : PROFESSOR CHAS. 
H. Jupp. Section of Astronomy, Physics and 
Chemistry: DR. WILLIAM S. Day. The Las 
Vegas Science Club: T. D. A.C. Ottawa Field 
Naturalists’ Club: DR. H. M. AMI.........0..0ee eee 467 
Shorter Articles :— 
Arsenic Tests: G. E. BARTON. Preliminary 
Note on the Embryogeny of Nelumbo: HAROLD 
1s ILM Ri cossoscosancastoscoccnscppebendecosa SoosCasDDK000 470 
Current Notes on Physiography :— 
Physiography of New Brunswick; Drainage 
Changes in Norway ; The Assam Earthquake of 
1897 : PROFESSOR W. M. DAVIS..........0:0.000+- 471 
Botanical Notes :— 
Trees of the Northern Plains; Shrubs of the 
Northern Plains; New Edition of the Phytoge- 
ography of Nebraska; Botany and Agriculture ; 
Field Ecology in the Rocky Mountains: PRo- 
FESSOR CHARLES E. BESSEY......-..-..-2-e2eeeeee- 
The National Bureau of Standards.. Hs 
Scientific Notes and News....-+--...sseceesesserseereeeee 
University and Educational News......-.1++.+++:01+20+0 
MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- 
r J. McKeen Cattell Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
THE CONDITION, PROSPECTS AND FUTURE 
EDUCATIONAL DEMANDS OF THE CHEM- 
ICAL INDUSTRIES.* 
Ir has been well said that chemistry is an 
offspring of the nineteenth century. The 
closing years of the eighteenth century had 
some glimpses of the wonders the new sci- 
ence had in store, but it remained for the 
workers of the first decade of the nineteenth 
to collaborate the results obtained by their 
immediate predecessors and develop the 
new truths which finally established the 
foundation of the glorious structure, which 
has now grown so great. During this pe- 
riod human necessities were in every way 
augmented, and particularly in France, 
claimed to be the fatherland of our science, 
human ingenuity was sorely taxed to meet 
these needs. 
The struggle to find ways and means 
stimulated the energies and increased the 
zeal of the searchers after truth, and the 
utilitarian quest, as is always inevitable, 
brought forth results of interest and value 
above and beyond the actual needs, fur- 
nished data upon which are based the most 
important and fundamental laws of the sci- 
ence and firmly established many of the 
most important of our industries. The la- 
bors of the chemists of the last decade of 
the closing century had cleared away the 
* Address of the President before the American 
Chemical Society, Chicago, 1900. 
