122 THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE THE Conference upon the History of Science, initiated by the American Historical Association at its annual meeting a year ago in Cleveland, proved such a success that the program committee devoted another session to the subject this December at Washington. Simultaneously the History of Science Section, which has recently been formed under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was meeting in Chicago, thus demonstrating the widespread interest in this promising field. This widespread interest was further evidenced at Washington by the variety of learned occupations represented by the speakers who included, in addition to professors of science and history, a librarian, a college president, and the head of an institution for research. Robert S. Woodward, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presided as almost his last official act before retiring from his long tenure of that office. In his introductory remarks he welcomed the attitude of the American Historical Association towards the history of science, emphasized the need of breaking down the artificial barriers which divide learning into different departments, and recalled a scheme dating back to 1907 but never executed for a general history of the inductive sciences by a number of collaborators under the direction of the Carnegie Institution. In a paper on "Recent Realignments in the History of Medieval Medicine and Science," Dr. Fielding H Garrison, librarian, Surgeon General's Office, warned against past exaggeration of medieval ecclesiastical hostility towards science, and against deriding the science of that period. In British libraries alone Mrs. Singer has found 30,000 scientific manuscripts from the medieval period, of which some 15,000 are medical. Dr. Garrison went on to compare the general character of medieval science and medicine with that of other periods including our own, and to appraise its relations to them. The rapid progress of scientific dis covery in more recent times was convi Professor James Harvey Robinson, New School for Social Research, di with characteristic satirical wit and force to the delight of the large a "Free Thought, Yesterday and To-day the standpoint of the student of inte history, comparing more especially the thinking of the Deists and other eig century philosophers with our own, and ing out how the rules and methods intellectual game" had profited by th tific advance of the last century. Because of the lateness of the hour 1 Tyler, president emeritus of the Co William and Mary, did not read hi upon "Science in Virginia." It is to b that not only it but also the other pape were read may be speedily published a ered available for a larger audience. LYNN THO Washington University School of Medicine REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION Candidates for entrance are required to have completed at least two full years of college work which must include English French or German, and instruction with laboratory work in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. INSTRUCTION Instruction begins on the last Thursday in September ano ends on the second Thursday in June. Clinical instruction is given in the Barnes Hospital and the St. Louis Children's Hos pital, affiliated with the medical school, the St. Louis City Hos pital, and in the Washington University Dispensary. COURSES LEADING TO ACADEMIC Students who have taken their premedical work in Wash ington University, are eligible for the degree of B.S. upon the completion of the first two years of medical work. Students in Washington University may pursue study in the fundamental medical sciences leading to the degree of A.M and Ph.D. TUITION The tuition fee for undergraduate medical students is $200 per annum. Women are admitted. The catalogue of the Medical School and other information may be obtained by application to the Dean. Euclid Avenue and Kingshighway St. Louis Johns Hopkins University Tulane University of Medical School The Medical School is an Integral Part of the University and is in close Affiliation with the Johns Hopkins Hospital ADMISSION Candidates for admission must be graduates of approved colleges or scientific schools with at least two year's instruction, including laboratory work, in Chemistry, and one year each in physics and biology, together with evidence of a reading knowledge of French and German. Each class is limited to 90 students, men and women being admitted on the same terms. Except in unusual circumstances, applications for admission will not be considered after July 1st. 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Louisiana SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Established in 1834) ADMISSION: All students entering the Freshman Class will be required to present credits for two years of college work, which must include Chemistry General and Organic), Physics and Biology, with their laboratories, and at least one year in English and one year in a modern foreign language. COMBINED COURSES: Premedical course of two years is offered in the College of Arts and Sciences, which provides for systematic work leading to the B.S. degree at the end of the second year in the medical course. School of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry and Graduate School of Medicine also. Women admitted to all Schools of the College of Medicine For bulletins and all other information, addres Tulane College of Medicine P. O. 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Biddle 1211-13 Arch Street, Philadelphia xii CADMIUM STANDARD CELL For use with potentiometers, electrometers, and ballistic meters, or wherever else a precision standard of electromotive needed. Negligible Temperature Coefficient. Contents hermetically sealed in glass so that lowering of motive force due to evaporation is impossible. Mounted in moulded box, or unmounted. My comparison certificate accompanies each cell without On November 13, 1916, three normal cadmium cells mad were certified by the Bureau of Standards as differing from the of reference cells by less than one part in one hundred thou three having the same value. On March 30 1920, after the lapse of three years and four the same three cells were again compared by the Bureau of St The maximum difference among the three was less than one hundred thousand, and the maximum difference from their value of 1916, was less than one part per hundred thousand. In other words, these cells showed a degree of constan intents equal to that considered most highly satisfactory, if not able, in the very best type of precision resistance standar Bul. Bur. of Stand. Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 427.) The cells in question were in nowise special. They we of the materials regularly prepared by me, and were set up greater care than that constantly employed in the making of dards. Marion Eppley, (A.M., Ph.D.) Physico-Chemical Apparatus. NEWPORT, R. I. |