SCIENCE 



Friday, Februakt 18, 1916 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Upbuilding National Vitality — the Need for 

 a Scientifio Investigation: E. E. Ritten- 

 HOUSE 221 



The Sevision of Eoanthropus dawsoni: Pro- 

 fessor George Grant MacCdrdy 228 



Provision for the Study of Monkeys and Apes: 

 Professor Robert M. Yeekes 231 



Scientific Notes and News 234 



University and Educational News 239 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Atmospheric Transmission • Dr. C. G. Abbot. 

 Universities and Unpreparedness : Professor 

 Yandell Henderson 240 



Qiiotations : — 



The Organisation of Science 243 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Bather's Studies in Edrioasteroidea : Dr. 

 EuDOLF Rtiedemann 244 



Special Articles: — 

 Adaptability of a Sea-grass: Dr. Howard 

 H. M. Bowman 244 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Special Meeting in Cooperation with the 

 Pan-American Congress: Dr. L. 0. Howard. 247 



The Federation of American Societies for Ex- 

 perimental Biology: De. John Atjer 251 



The American Society for Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Therapeutics: Dr. JohnAtjee. 252 



The American Physiological Society: Pro- 

 fessor Chas. W. Greene 



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

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

 OB-Hudson. N. Y. 



UPBUILDING NATIONAL VITALITY— 



THE NEED FOR A SCIENTIFIC 



INVESTIGATION! 



If American democracy is to survive, it 

 must be made more efficient — socially, in- 

 dustrially, politically. If Americans are 

 to work out their national destiny unvexed 

 and unhampered by foreign interference 

 or domination, they must no longer endure 

 the hazard of unguarded peace. 



These conclusions — right or wrong — have 

 been firmly fixed in the minds and hearts 

 of a vast number of Americans. 



For many months they have observed the 

 great Christian nations of Europe rending 

 one another with the ferocity of wild beasts 

 — a savage, brutalizing struggle to destroy 

 life and property, to increase human pain 

 and suffering. The awful horror of it, the 

 appalling cost of it in men, money and 

 misery has passed beyond the grasp of the 

 imagination. 



Civilization's guarantees against such a 

 man-made calamity have been dishonored, 

 treaties torn up, the laws of common hu- 

 manity and of God designedly outraged, 

 and the rule of the sword substituted. 



On one flank America has this extraordi- 

 nary recrudescence of the spirit of national 

 outlawry and conquest. On the other it 

 has a rapidly advancing military power 

 supported by an aggressive, warlike people 

 with colonizing policies. 



The possibility that American democ- 

 racy may eventually be squeezed or crushed 

 between these two great forces of militar- 

 ism can no longer be ignored. 



1 Address of the ehairman and retiring vice- 

 president of Section I, the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, Columbus, De- 

 cem'ber 29, 1915. 



