Friday, July 25, 1913 



CONTENTS 



The Mutual Eelations of Medical Progress 

 and the Physician: Propessob Henry H. 

 Donaldson 101 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 A National University based on National 

 Ideals: H. K. Bdsh-Beown 109 



The Scientific Study of the College Stu- 

 dent : Charles Whiting Williams 114 



Th^ American Mine Safety Association 120 



The Crocker Land Expedition 10 



Scientific Notes and News 121 



University and Educational News 125 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Color Correlation in Garden Beans: Dr. J. 

 K. Shaw. A New Method for Labeling 

 Microscopic Slides: Zae Noethkdp. The 

 Metric System: A. P. Gilman. The Yel- 

 lowstone Park: Professor W. S. Franklin 126 



Scientific Books: — • 



Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora of 

 the Northern United States, Candida and the 

 British Possessions : Proeessoe Charles E. 

 Bessey. Ingersoll and Zobel on the Math- 

 ematical Theory of Heat Conduction : C. 

 P. Eandolph 129 



Special Articles: — 



The Negative Phototropism of Diaptomus 

 through the Agency of Caffein, Strychnin 

 and Atropin: Professor A. E. Moore. The 

 Powdery Scab of Potato: I. E. Melhus. 

 A New Section South from Des Moines, 

 Iowa: John L. Tilton ; 1 31 



The American Association of Museums: Dr. 

 Paul M. Eea 135 



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

 re-flew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Ga 

 ou-Hudson, N. Y. 



TEE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF MEDICAL 

 PROGRESS AND THE PHYSICIAN^ 



Some students of literature tell us that 

 there are but seven different stories in the 

 world. I should be inclined to add that 

 there were but three different addresses 

 for an occasion like the present. 



Thus it is possible to select a chapter in 

 medical history and revive the past ; or dis- 

 cuss some striking achievement of the day 

 and illuminate the present; or finally, to 

 choose for consideration problems, the so- 

 lutions for which are still in the making, 

 and thus attempt to forecast and to mould 

 the future. 



It is from these problems that I have 

 made a selection for this occasion and I 

 purpose to speak on the mutual relations 

 of medical progress and the physician — 

 for you are physicians — in the nascent 

 state, to be sure — but like the freshly lib- 

 erated hydrogen to which the adjective is 

 most often applied — capable of vigorous 

 activity. 



To say anything really new to you upon 

 the topic here set down would be most diffi- 

 cult. We are all in the position of the old 

 philologian who, when asked to explain 

 why he gave no lectures, replied that he 

 had not yet been able to get together a suffi- 

 cient quantity of new facts to fill an hour. 

 For the most part we who speak are obliged 

 to overlook this unpleasant circumstance 

 and endeavor to present familiar ideas in 

 a new form — trusting by a happy presen- 

 tation to drive them home. 



To be sure, all of us are wonderfully pro- 



' Address given at the eighty-fourth annual com- 

 mencement of the St. Louis University School of 

 Medicine, June 5, 1913. 



