

SCIENCE 



1 1914 



Friday, July 31, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 Memorial on the Foundation of an Interna- 

 tional Chemical Institute: Peopessok Wil- 



HELM OSTWALD 147 



The Man of PiUdown: Peofessob George 

 Gkant MacCJurdy 158 



The Production of Coal in 1913 160 



The MocTcefeller Institute for Medical Be- 

 search 161 



fie Notes and News 162 



and Educational News 165 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Tin Disease and Polar Exploration: B. T. 

 Bkooks. Culist Science: J. F. A. Mo- 

 tions of the Atmosphere: Peofessoe Cleve- 

 land Abbe 166 



Scientific Books : — 



Stevens on the Fungi which cause Plant 

 Disease: De. F. D. Heald. Jones's The 

 New Era in Chemistry: Peofessoe Edwaed 

 C. Feanklin. Thomson on Bays of Positive 

 Electricity and their Application to Chem- 

 ical Analysis: Professor E. A. Millikan. 168 



Articles : — 

 Desiccation of Certain Gregarine Cysts: 

 Professor Max M. Ellis. Semi-permeaile 

 Capsules: William W. Beowne and David 

 SOLETSKT 174 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Wisconiisin Academy of Sciences, Arts 

 and Letters: Arthue Beatty. The Ken- 

 tucTcy Academy of Science: Gaenett Ry- 

 LAND. New Orleans Academy of Science: 

 De. E. S. Cocks 177 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



MEMOBIAL ON TSE FOUNDATION OF AN 



INTEBNATIONAL CSEMICAL 



INSTITUTE^ 



GENBBAL 



The recent foundation with stieh excep- 

 tional rapidity and unanimity of the Inter- 

 national Association of Chemic Societies 

 shows that chemistry, as a science, has ad- 

 vanced to a position where unregulated in- 

 dividual efforts are no longer sufficient and 

 must be replaced by organizing the efforts 

 of all chemists. 



The participants in that formative meet- 

 ing held in Paris toward the end of April, 

 1911, had not given the subject much previ- 

 ous thought, nevertheless even in this pre- 

 liminary discussion a large number of 

 undertakings of general interest were men- 

 tioned which showed how keenly the need 

 of organizing all chemic activities is felt. 



Such possible and necessary underta- 

 kings of general value discussed in the pro- 

 ceedings are: 



1. The uniformity of nomenclature of chemic 

 substances. 



2. The inclusion of the international committee 

 of atomic weights in the Association of Chemic 

 Societies. 



3. Uniformity in the nomenclature of physic 

 and chemic constants. 



4. Conformity in the editing of tables of con- 

 tents of chemic publications. 



5. A standardization of the writing of abstracts 

 and other reviews of the new publications in chem- 

 istry. 



6. The preparation of an international auxiliary 

 language for publications of universal interest. 



7. Standardization of the size of publications. 



8. Arrangements for limiting the printing of an 

 article in different publications. 



9. Preparation of a chemic thesaurus in which 



1 Translated by Adolf Law Voge. 



