SCIENCE 



Friday, August 7, 1914 



Some Aspects of Industrial Chemistry: Dr. 

 L. H. Babkeland 179 



Preliminary Beport on the Discovery of Hu- 

 man Bema/ins in an Asphalt Deposit at 

 Bancho la Brea: Propessoe John C. 

 Merkiam 198 



The 72-inch Befleoting Telescope for Canada. 203 



fio Notes and News 204 



University and Educational News 207 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Problem of Gravity: CoL. John Millis. 

 A Simple Method for Filling an Osmometer : 

 Laetitia M. Snow 207 



■ The Proposed Union of Scientific Workers. 208 



Scientific Books:- — • 

 Bolland and Peterson on The Osteology of 

 the Chalicotheroidea: Professor Eichard 

 S"wann Lull. Neumann and Mayer's 

 Atlas wnd Lehriuch wichtiger tierischer 

 Parasiten: Professor Charles A. Kofoid. 209 



The Belation ietween Lizards and Phleiotomus 

 verrucarum, as indicating the Beservoir of 

 Verruga: Dr. Charles H. T. Townsend. 212 



Special Articles: — 



The Permeahility of Fish Eggs: Dr. J. F. 

 McClendon. The Effect of Soil Conditions 

 on the Tassels of Maise: Frank S. Harris. 

 Ascaris Suum in Sheep : Don C, Mote .... 214 



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

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

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



SOME ASPECTS OF INDUS TBIAL 

 CHEMISIEYi 



While I appreciate deeply the distinc- 

 tion of speaking before you on the occasion 

 of the fiftieth anniversary of the Colum- 

 bia School of Mines, I realize, at the same 

 time, that nobody here present could do 

 better justice to the subject which has been 

 chosen for this lecture, than the beloved 

 master in whose honor the Charles Freder- 

 ick Chandler Lectureship has been created. 



Dr. Chandler, in his long and eminently 

 useful career as a professor and as a public 

 servant, has assisted at the very beginning 

 of some of the most interesting chapters of 

 applied chemistry, here and abroad. 



Some of his pupils have become leaders 

 in chemical industry ; others have found in 

 his teachings the very conception of new 

 chemical processes which made their names 

 known throughout the whole world. 



Industrial chemistry has been defined 

 as ' ' the chemistry of dollars and cents. ' ' 



This rather cynical definition, in its nar- 

 rower interpretation, seems to ignore en- 

 tirely the far-reaching economic and civil- 

 izing infiuences which have been brought to 

 life through the applications of science; it 

 fails to do justice to the fact that the whole 

 fabric of modem civilization becomes each 

 day more and ever more interwoven with 

 the endless ramifications of applied chem- 

 istry. 



The earlier effects of this influence do 

 not date back much beyond one hundred 

 and odd years. They became distinctly evi- 

 dent during the first French Republic, in- 



1 An address given at Columbia University to 

 inaugurate the Charles F. Chandler lectureship. 

 Copyrighted by the Columbia University Press. 



