SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Friday, May 22, 1908 



CONTENTS 



The Usefulness of Chemistry in the Indus- 

 tries : W. D. RiCHABDSON 801 



Some Results of the Magnetic Survey of the 

 United States : De. L. A. Bauee 812 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Case's Revision of the Pelycosauria of North 

 America: De. W. D. Matthew. Storring's 

 Mental Pathology and Normal Psychology ; 

 Pillsbury's Attention : J. J 816 



Scientific Journals and Articles 819 



Societies and Academies:— 



The Utah Academy of Science: Albeet 0. 

 (iAEBETT. The Botanical Society of Wash- 

 ington: De. Haven Metcalf. The Chem- 

 ical Society of Washington: J. A. LeCleec. 

 The Onondaga Academy of Sciences: F. 

 H. Chase 820 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Are Pensions for College Teachers a Form 

 of Socialism? Peofessoe Simon N. Patten. 

 The Length of the smallest known Sirenian 

 Fetus; Gyre preferred to "Convolution": 

 Peofessoe Bubt 6. Wlldee. Amethystine 

 Glass : Peofessoe T. D. A. Cockeeell . . . 822 



Special Articles: — 



Some Notes on Malacological Nomencla- 

 ture: De. Heemann von Ihebing; Db. W. 

 H. Dall. The Ecological Formations of 

 Pittsburg and Vicinity: Otto E. Jennings. 

 The "Permanent Phase": Wm. P. Mungeb 825 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Bulletin of the Mount Weather Observa- 

 tory; Evaporation in the Salton Sink; 

 Tropical Temperatures; Frost in Cali- 

 fornia: Pbofessok R. DeC. Waed 831 



Botanical Notes: — 



Fungus Notes; Notes on Algae and Arche- 

 goniatae: Peofessoe Ohaeles E. Bessey 832 



The National Conference Committee on Stand- 

 ards of Colleges and Secondary Schools: 

 Peofessoe Feedebick C. Feeet 834 



Scientific Notes and News 835 



amd Educational News 839 



THE USEFULNESS OF CHEMISTRY IN THE 

 INDUSTRIES ' 



One month ago I had the pleasure of 

 addressing the University of Illinois sec- 

 tion on the subject, "Chemistry and In- 

 dustry." On that occasion I departed 

 somewhat from the orthodox position of 

 loyal chemists, which is that manufactur- 

 ing industry could not long survive in the 

 absence of chemists and a science of chem- 

 istry, and that manufacturing industry 

 owes a large debt of gratitude, if not of 

 worldly goods, to the chemical profession; 

 and I endeavored to show how, long before 

 a science of chemistry developed, a suffi- 

 cient amount of chemical knowledge and a 

 sufficient number of chemical facts were 

 accumulated by the earliest civilizations 

 of which we have a record, to enable them 

 to establish and conduct chemical manu- 

 factures in a rather creditable manner. I 

 felt it was necessary to emphasize this fact, 

 which is frequently lost sight of in the 

 pursuit of laboratory chemistry, in the 

 interest of a fair understanding of the 

 relationship between the science of chem- 

 istry, and manufacture, and in the interest 

 of fair play, too, because I should not care 

 to give chemistry more than its due. 



There are, broadly considered, but two 

 kinds of manufacture ; one of them is con- 

 cerned with those processes which change 

 the form of matter only, mechanical manu- 

 facture, and includes such industries as 

 the founding, metal- working, wood-working 



'Address delivered before the Indianapolis Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society, March 20, 

 1908. 



