SCIENCE 



Peidat, June 2, 1916 



CONTENTS 

 The Organization of Industrial Scientific Re- 

 search: C. E. Kenneth Mees 763 



Benjamin FranMin and Erasmus Darwin, 

 with, some unpublished Correspondence: De. 

 L. HussAKOP 773 



Sven Magnus Gronherger : F. E. FowLE 775 



Scientific Notes and News 776 



University and Educational News 779 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



A New Form of Plant Drier: P. L. Bickee. 

 A New Color Variety of the Norway Sat: 

 De. Phineas W. Whiting. Sylvester and 

 Cayley: Pbofessoe Geoege Beuce Hal- 

 STED 780 



Scientific Boohs: — 

 Kaye on Indian Mathematics: Peopessoe 

 David Eugene Smith. Wraight's Assay- 

 ing in Theory and Practise: Peopessoe 

 Owen L. Shinn 781 



Mosquitoes and Man : De. C. S. Ltidlow .... 784 



Special Articles: — 



The Origin by Mutation of the Endemic 

 Plants of Ceylon: Peopessoe Hugo de 

 Vries. The Electrical Discharge between 

 Concentric Cylindrical Electrodes: Peo- 

 pessoe Chas. T. Knipp 785 



The Utah Academy of Sciences: De. A. O. 

 Gaekett 789 



Anthropology at the Washington Meeting . . . 790 



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

 rerlew shonld be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson. N. Y. 



THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL 

 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 



If one attempted to formulate the com- 

 mon belief concerning the origin and devel- 

 opment of modern technical industries, it 

 would probably be found that stress would 

 be laid upon financial ability or manufac- 

 turing skill on the part of the founders, 

 but if, instead, we were to make a historical 

 survey of the subject I think that we should 

 find that the starting and development of 

 most manufacturing businesses depended 

 upon discoveries and inventions being made 

 by some individual or group of individuals 

 who developed their original discoveries 

 into an industrial process. Indeed, if the 

 localities in which various industries have 

 developed be marked on the map, they will 

 often be found to have far more relation to 

 the accidental location, by birth or other- 

 wise, of individuals, than to any natural 

 advantages possessed by the situation for 

 the particular industry concerned. The 

 metallurgical industries, of course, are 

 situated chiefly near the sources of the ores 

 or of coal, but why should the chief seat of 

 the spinning industry be in Lancashire or 

 of modern optical industry in Jena except 

 that in those places lived the men who devel- 

 oped the processes which are used in the 

 industry? And, moreover, industries are 

 frequently transferred from one locality 

 to another and even from one country to 

 another by the development of new proc- 

 esses, generally by new individuals or 

 groups of workers. 



The history of many industries is that 

 they were originated and developed in the 

 first place by some man of genius who was 

 fuUy acquainted with the practise of the 



