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SCIENCE 



Feidat, August 14, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 The Marine Biological Laboratory :■ — ■ 

 The Needs of Besearch: Dr. E. S. Wood- 

 ward 217 



Addresses at the Dedication of the New 

 Buildings: Dk. B. S. Lillie; De. Hugh M. 

 Smith 229 



Time Matios in the Evolution of Mammalian 

 Phyla: Dk. W. D. Matthew 232 



Scientific Notes and News 235 



Vnimersity and Educational News 239 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Young Whitefish in Lake Superior: T. L. 

 Hankinson. The Poor Hatching of Nor- 

 mal Eggs: T. D. Beckwith, G. D. Horton. 

 Heterodera radicicola attacking the Canada 

 Thistle: L. E. Melchers. An Avalanche 

 of Socles: De. Edward S. Morse 239 



Scientific Books: — 

 Bateson on Problems of Genetics, Weis- 

 mann's Vortrage iiber Dessendemtheorie 

 and Bateson 's Principles of Heredity: Pro- 

 rEssoR W. E. Castle 241 



I Articles: — 

 A New Method for the Determination of Soil 

 Acidity: E. Truog. Experimental Efforts to 

 retain the Freshness in Cut Hose Blooms: 

 F. B. Pember 246 



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

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

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



TSE NEEDS OF BESEABCB^ 

 The occasion which brings us together 

 to-day is one of profound moment alike to 

 biologists and to the devotees of other 

 branches of science; for in the dedication 

 of your new laboratory we make distinct 

 and formal recognition at once of our ex- 

 istence in a universe chiefly unknown to us 

 and of the most effective method thus far 

 devised for interpreting it. This universe 

 is the complex of phenomena in which we 

 find ourselves and of which we humans form 

 a part, and this method is the method of 

 research. The evolution of our race may 

 be summed up under the two heads of 

 man's relations to and of his means of in- 

 vestigating this complex of phenomena in 

 which he plays the role usually of a name- 

 less supernumerary, but occasionally also 

 the role of interpreter, or even manager, in 

 an ephemeral presentation of some aspects 

 of the larger drama of life. The event we 

 celebrate, therefore, should stimulate our 

 keenest philosophic interest and rouse our 

 enthusiastic admiration for the favoring 

 circumstances which have made it possible 

 to secure this substantial adjunct to the 

 rare opportunities which have long made 

 "Woods Hole a resort for students and in- 

 vestigators in biological science. This event 

 means progress ; it marks a definite step in 

 advance along lines of proved advantage 

 to society at large ; and it makes additional 

 steps forward easier not only for your or- 

 ganization, but for all similar organiza- 

 tions. Moreover, the age in which we live 

 is preeminently an age of restless, if not 



1 Address read on the occasion of the dedica- 

 tion of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

 Hole, Massachusetts, July 10, 1914. 



