SCIENCE 



,A "WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, October 6, 1905. 



CON TEN T8. 



Contributions of Pharmacology to Physiology : 

 Professor Hans Meyer 417 



The G-eographical Distribution of the Student 

 Body at a Number of American Univer- 

 sities : Professor Rudolf Tombo 424 



Scientific Books: — 



Le Dantec's Traite de biologic: Professor 

 Arthur O. Lovejoy. 428 



Scientific Journals and Articles 429 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole 480 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Probable Origin of Certain Birds: Pro- 

 fessor J. A. Allen 431 



Special Articles: — 



Battery Resistance by Malice's Method: 

 Professor Arthur W. Smith. Organisms 

 on the Surface of Grain, ivith Special Refer- 

 ence to Bacillus Coli: Dr. Haven Metcalf 434 



The International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature: Professor A. Liversidge 441 



Inauguration of the Magnetic Survey of the 

 North Pacific Ocean: Dr. L. A. Bauer. . . . 443 



Experimental Studies in Yelloio Fever and 

 Malaria at Vera Cruz 443 



Scientific Notes and Neios 444 



University and Educational Neios 448 



MSS. intended for puhlicatinii mid books, etc.. intended 

 tor review should be sent to the Editor of SciKNrE. '-Jarri- 

 Son-on-Hndson, N. V 



CONTRIBUTIONS OF PHARMACOLOGY TO 

 PHYSIOLOGY? 



Ladies and Gentlemen: Before I enter 

 upon the task for, which I ask your kind 



^ Being the first of the Herter lectures delivered 

 at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, October 5, 

 1905. 



attention, I desire to express my hearty 

 thanks for the great honor you have ex- 

 tended to me in inviting me to deliver the 

 Herter lectures. The honor I accept, not 

 so much for myself as for the science which 

 I represent. 



Experimental pharmacology is a science 

 with essentially theoretical aims — a part of 

 general biology, in which there is nowhere 

 shown a greater interest than in America. 

 I take especial pleasure in asserting that in 

 this land of varied successes the under- 

 standing of abstract problems and of purely 

 theoretical work thrives and ever grows, 

 always extending to wider circles, tilled 

 with a scientific idealism which invites the 

 most splendid and admirable sacrifices, 

 spiritual and material. Your famous uni- 

 versity and, indeed, these lectures them- 

 selves owe their origin to such idealistic 

 impulses. And this gives me the courage 

 and the desire to talk to you of the sig- 

 nificance and value of pharmacology. 



It is, then, not necessary for me to claim 

 your attention for the practical results or 

 for their value to the practising physician ; 

 not, however, that I undervalue this impor- 

 tant side of pharmacology. But may I not 

 hope at this place to be able to attain my 

 purpose most easily, if I beg your attention 

 to the biological results which we owe to 

 pharmacological investigations ? 



For the explanation and analysis of 

 physiological function, apart from com- 

 parative physiology, stimulation and extir- 

 pation of certain organs or parts of organs 

 serve as general methods. Experimental 

 physiology employed to this end mechanical 



