SCIENCE 



Feidat, Novembee 7, 1913 



CONTENTS 



Industrial Besearch in America: Arthur D. 

 Little 643 



Some Paleontological Mesults of the Swedish 

 South Polar Expedition under N ordenslciold : 

 De. Edward W. Bebrt 656 



Scientific Notes and News 661 



University and Educational News 664 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Labeling Microscopic Slides: Dr. Frank E. 

 Blaisdell. a Northerly Record for the 

 Freetailed Bat: John T. Zimmer 665 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Hartog on Problems of Life and Reproduc- 

 tion: Professor C. E. McClung. F. G. 

 Pope's Modern Research in Organic Chem- 

 istry : Professor W. R. Orndoref 666 



Scientific Journals and Articles 668 



Penf old's Modification of Bacillus coli com- 

 munis : Wm. Mansfield Clark 669 



Special Articles: — 



A New Means of Transmitting the Fowl 

 Nematode, Heterakis perspicillum: Dr. John 

 W. Scott. A New Species of Moropus (M. 

 Hollandi) : Dr. 0. A. Peterson 672 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Charles 

 L. Parsons 673 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole 680 



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

 reriew should be sent to Profeesor J. McKeen Cattail, Garrison- 

 Oa-Hudson, N. Y. 



INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN AMERICA^ 

 Germany lias long been recognized as 

 preeminently the country of organized re- 

 search. The spirit of research is there 

 imminent throughout the entire social struc- 

 ture. This is not the time nor place, how- 

 ever, nor is it necessary before this audi- 

 ence, to refer in any detail to the long 

 record of splendid achievement made by 

 German research during the last fifty years. 

 It is inscribed in luminous letters around 

 the rock upon which Germany now stands 

 secure among the nations of the world. 



The virility and range of German re- 

 search were never greater than they are 

 to-day. Never before have the superb 

 energy and calculated audacity of German 

 technical directors and German financiers 

 transformed so quickly and so surely the 

 triumplis of the laboratory into industrial 

 conquests. Never has the future held richer 

 promise of orderly and sustained progress, 

 and yet the preeminence of Germany in 

 industrial research is by no means indefi- 

 nitely assured. A new competitor is even 

 now girding up his loins and training for 

 the race, and that competitor is strangely 

 enough the United States — that prodigal 

 among nations, still justly stigmatized as 

 the most wasteful, careless and improvident 

 of them all. 



To one at all familiar with the disdain of 

 scientific teaching which has characterized 

 our industry, and which still persists in 

 many quarters, this statement is so contrary 

 to the current estimate that its general 

 acceptance can not be expected. It will 



1 Presidential address at the forty-eighth meet- 

 ing of the American Chemical Society, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



