SCIENCE 



Feidat, September 17, 1915 



AMERICAN ACEIEVEMENT3 AND AMEBI- 



CAN EAILUBES IN PUBLIC HEALTH 



WOBK^ 



Public health work in America began 

 early in the eighteenth century with the 

 introduction into New England of the 

 Oriental inoculation for small-pox by 

 Boylston, and has achieved world-wide re- 

 nown early in the twentieth century with 

 the scientific sanitation of the tropical Isth- 

 mus of Panama by Gorgas. The educa- 

 ting, organizing and equipping with sani- 

 tary machinery of a swiftly growing popu- 

 lation, at first sparse but later sometimes 

 intensely congested, and always fluid and 

 unstable under the pressure of migrations 

 and immigrations such as the world has 

 never seen, is in itself a great achievement. 

 And when that population is, like ours, 

 compounded of all the races of mankind, 

 lodged in a new environment and subjected 

 to an unfamiliar and quickly changeable 

 climate, public health work becomes excep- 

 tionally difficult. Nevertheless, under 

 leaders like Boylston and Waterhouse, 

 Shattuck, Waleott and Billings, and Reed, 

 Lazear and Gorgas — to whom we may now 

 proudly add the name of Strong — sani- 

 tary information has been gathered and 

 spread abroad and applied; vital statistics 

 have been collected and studied; sanitary 

 libraries have been formed; boards of 

 health have been organized and directed; 

 public health laboratories have been estab- 

 lished; and epidemiology and other 

 branches of sanitary science enriched and 

 extended. 



, , ^ 1 Address of the President, American Public 



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review should be sent to Professor J. McKeenCattell, Garrison- Health Association, Bochester, N. T., September 



On-Hudson. N. Y. 7, 1915. 



CONTENTS 



American Achievements and American Fail- 

 ures in Fublic Health Work: W. T. Sedg- 

 wick 361 



A Simple Method of indicating Geographical 

 Distribution: J. Adams 366 



The Committee of One Hundred of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of 

 Science 358 



The Naval Advisory Board of Inventions .... 371 



Scientific Notes and News 371 



University and Educational Netvs 373 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



California and Stanford Misrepresented : Dr. 

 A. W. Meter. Successful Long-distance 

 Shipment of Citrus Pollen: Maude Keller- 

 man. Valley-fill of Arid Intermont Plains: 

 Charles Keyes 374 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Haldane on Mechanism, Life and Personal- 

 ity: Professor L. J. Henderson. Richard- 

 son on the Electron Theory of Matter: Pro- 

 fessor E. A. MiLLIKAN 378 



Special Articles: — 

 A System of Eecording Types of Mating in 

 Experimental Breeding Operations: Dr. 

 Eaymond Pearl. The Chemical Composi- 

 tion of Bornite: Pkofessor Austin F. 

 Rogers. Studies in the Measurement of 

 the Electrical Conductivity of Solutions: W. 

 A. Taylor 383 



The American Physical Society: Professor A. 

 D. Cole 390 



The American Genetic Association : Paul 

 Popenoe 391 



