SCIENCE 



Friday, November 28, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 Federal Forestry: Professor Henry S. 

 Grates 753 



The Essentials of an Education: Dr. Stewart 

 Paton 758 



Address iefore the Biological Division of the 

 American Chemical Society: Dr. Carl L. 

 Alsberg 763 



The Meeting of the Committee on Policy of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science 764 



The New YorTc State Museum 765 



Scientific Notes and News 766 



Vnvoersity and Educational News 770 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Mathematical Definitions in the New Stand- 

 ard Dictionary: Professor G. A. Miller. 

 A Beply to Dr. Heron's Strictures: Dr. 

 Chas. B. Davenport 772 



Scientific Books:- — 

 Lindgren's Mineral Deposits: Professor J. 

 F. Kemp. Obermaier's "Der Mensch der 

 Vorzeit": Professor George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy. SchmucTcer on the Meaning of Evo- 

 lution: Professor H. E. Walter. Lucas's 

 Animals of the Past: Professor R. S. Lull. 

 Brown's History of Chemistry: Dr. C. A. 

 Browne 774 



China's Foreign Trade in Medieval Times: 

 Dr. George F. Kunz 782 



Special Articles: — 

 Ovarian Transplantation in Guinea-pigs: 

 Professor W. E. Castle, John C. Phillips. 

 Nutrition and Sex-determination in Botifers : 

 Dr. A. Franklin Shull 783 



The American Physical Society: Professor 

 Alfred D. Cole 788 



KSS. InUsdcd for pablioation msd booka, •tc, iDt«nd*d f»r 

 nTi*w ikonld b* nnt to ProfauoT J. McKcea CitUU, Osiriieii- 

 •n-Hsdion, N. Y. 



FEDERAL FOBESTBTi 

 The part played by the nation in for- 

 estry must always be large. Here as in all 

 other countries, the real development of 

 forestry began when the government took 

 up its practise. Even to-day some persons 

 would leave the forests entirely to private 

 owners ; others insist that the public phases 

 of forestry are altogether a state function 

 and federal activities in this field uncalled 

 for. Those who hold this view are usually 

 either lukewarm concerning the need for 

 forest conservation or opposed to restrict- 

 ing private activities. 



National responsibility in forestry is 

 perfectly clear-cut. There need be no con- 

 fusion with an equally clear-cut responsi- 

 bility of the states. And as to private for- 

 estry little of value has so far been done 

 that has not been an outcome of public ac- 

 tion through state or federal agencies, or 

 both. It was the work of the federal gov- 

 ernment in placing its own forests under 

 administration, its demonstration of fire 

 protection and of conservative lumbering, 

 its experimental and educational work, and 

 its stimulus to our educational institutions 

 to train and turn out a large body of for- 

 esters, which created the present wide in- 

 terest in forestry and brought the efforts 

 of other agencies into successful play. I 

 do not mean in any way to overlook the 

 splendid work of certain individual states 

 like Pennsylvania and New York, which 

 dates back many years. But that was lo- 

 calized in a few states. It required the na- 

 tion itself to set in motion a national move- 



1 Address delivered at the Fifth National Con- 

 servation Congress, Washington, D. C, November 

 19, 1913. 



