The New World of Science: Its Development During the War

there will be certain permanent exhibits of fundamental scientific interest, but perhaps more significant will be the system of rotating exhibits designed to show the latest discoveries in pure and applied science in ways readily intelligible to the general public. These exhibits will then be shown in other large centers throughout the country wherever satisfactory arrangements can be made. At the present moment, there is being shown a most striking exhibit of the wireless telephone and of the essential discoveries in pure science which have led up to its perfection. This exhibit has been prepared by the American Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric Company, with assistance from the Signal Corps of the army.

It is hoped by these methods to arouse a much deeper and more widely disseminated public appreciation of the progress which is constantly going on in scientific work, and of the sig. nificance of this work for the prosperity of the commonwealth. If the Council can accomplish some fraction of the general purposes which have been outlined in this chapter, it may well feel that it has served its purpose. Its organization is plastic, and can be made to conform to the changing needs of successive generations. It is based upon an unselfish devotion to the development of human welfare through the most energetic prosecution of the resources of science.

INDEX

Abstracts, scientific, 432

Charcoal, and gas warfare, 156
Academy of Sciences, Paris, 3 ff. Chemical warfare, casualties, 286
Aerogoniometry, improvements results of, 172
in, 242

service, 148 ff.
Agriculture, research in, 29

history of, 150
Airplane, direction finding from, Chemistry, analytic research, 167
242

inorganic research, 166
engines for, 260

of explosives, 123 ff., 134 ff.
photography, 46, 91 ff.

organic research, 163
radio communication, 235

union for, 414
Ammonia, absorption of, 161 Chemists, census of, 149
Ammunition, production of, 134, Chlorine, use of, 152
254

Civil War, science in, 8
Amplification, principle of, 44-45 photography in, 89
Angell, J. R., 417 ff.

Color photography, 97
Antennae, tree, 244

Commission, Food, 267
Anthrax, 298

Conference, of Divisions of Phys-
Artillery, and meteorology, 54

ical Sciences and Engi-
Association, of academies, inter-

neering, 36
national, 408

Congresses, international scien-
Astronomy, coöperation in, 396

tific, 408
Audition, principle of, binaural, Coöperation, in research, 393 ff.
42-44

international, 19
Aviation, charting air for, 58 ff. Coöperative research, 427, 435
photography in, 89 ff.

examples of, 396 ff.

Council, of National Defense, 16
Balloon, for military use, 25
Ballooning, principle of, 46, 50 ff. Davis, W. M., Handbook of
Bingham, W. V., 381

Northern France, 190
Bone grafting, 324

Death rate, in A. E. F., 346
Bumstead, H. A., scientific at in army, 330
taché, London, 36

in camps, 33

de Tocqueville, Democracy in
Calories, in army rations, 275

America, 8
Camera, airplane, 94

Diseases, communicable, 329
Camps, and source of troops, 333 infectious, 293
Cannon, manufacture of, 254

prevalent in army, 291 ff.
Carbon monoxide, 159

respiratory, 302
Cartography, 181 ff.

venereal, 346

Geography, contributions of, 177

ff.
Geology, and water supply, 198 ff.

contributions of, 196 ff.
coöperation in, 400
German orders concerning, 211-

214
uses in warfare, 201 ff.
Geophysics, organization for,

413, 414
Goniometry, 238
Government Division, of Nation-

al Research Council, 420
Gregory, H. E., Introductory

Meteorology, 190
Military Geology and Topog-

raphy, 190
Syllabus in Geography of Eu-

rope, 190
Gun and Howitzer Club,” 252
Gun factories, 253
pointers, selection and training

of, 387

39 ff.

66

Epidemics, comparative toll of,

340
Examination of recruits, 357
Exhibits, scientific, 438
Explosives, nitrogen products for,

123 ff.

quantities of, 146
problems of, 139 ff.
production of, 134 ff.

Hale, G. E., 3, 13, 393, 405
Handbook, of Northern France,

190
Handbooks, prepared by National

Research Council, 26, 190
Hanner, J. W., 311
Helmet, coöperation in develop-

Food Administration, 273

Commission, 267

problem, 265 ff.
Foreign Relations, Division of,

National Research Council,

422
France, development of science in,

3 ff.

ing, 24

Gangrene, anti-gas serum, 301

gaseous, 300
Gas, casualties from, 286
mask, types of, 162
poisoning, treatment of, 287

service, 151
Gaseous gangrene, 300

development of, 257
History, of Chemical Warfare

Service, 150
of explosives, 134 ff.
of optical glass, 103 ff.
of Psychological Service, 352 ff.

of signalling, 221 ff.
Hospitals, reconstruction in, 289
Howe, H. E., 103 ff.
Howe, H. M., 247 ff.

Illiteracy, in army, 376

Napoleon, science under, 3 ff.
National Academy of Sciences,

founded, 9
Institute of France, 5
Research Council, and Govern-

ment Bureaus, 38
and Psychological Service,

352
National Research Council, Di-

vision of Physical Sciences,

34
of Science and Research of

Signal Corps, 22
divisions of, 419
membership of, 434
organization and functions of,

Infectious diseases, 293

jaundice, 297
Influenza, 305, 306 ff., 339 ff.

causes of, 344-346
Intelligence, and military value,

367 ff.
and occupation, 378
individual differences in, 365

of negro, 376
International Astronomical Un-

ion, 403, 412
organization of research, 405 ff.
Research Council, formation of,

409 ff.

objects of, 411
scientific organization, 407
Institute, of Baking, 437

of Egypt, 5
Ives, H. E., 89 ff.

Jaundice, infectious, 297
Johnson, D. W., 177 ff.

Kapteyn, coöperative study of

stars, 398
Kellogg, V., 265 ff.
Kennelly, A. E., 221 ff.

Lachrymators, 166
Lyster bag, use of, 281

Map, making, 193

of system of wires, 224
Maps, geological, 205

in aerial photography, 93

military uses of, 181 ff.
Measles, 305
Medical Corps, personnel of, 277
Department, Division of Food

and Nutrition, 273
examination and rejection, 285
Medicine, in the war, 277 ff.

preventive, 328 ff.
Mental age, of recruits, 375

Northcliffe, Lord, and submarine

problem, 38
Nayes, A. A., 123 ff.

Occupation, and classification, 379

in relation to intelligence, 378

Optical glass, for

war needs,

103 ff.

contributions of, 364 ff.
reports concerning military,

351
Publications, scientific, 432-433
Pyrotechnic, 171

history of, 103 ff.

problem of, 95, 114 ff.
Ordnance, production of, 251
Organization, of research, 405 ff.

of science, 394
Organizations, international scien-

tific, 407, 416
national scientific, 405
Orthopedics, 319

Peace Conference, and geogra-

phy, 192
Personnel, classification of, in

army, 379
of Medical Corps, 277
Physical science, rôle of, 33 ff.
Physics, coöperation in, 399
Photography, airplane, 46, 91 ff.

color, 97

wartime, 89 ff.
Plate, for aerial photography, 96
Pneumonia, 302

cause of, 343
Preventive medicine, 328 ff.
Problems, of Division of Physi-

cal Sciences, 37 ff.
of explosives, 139 ff.
of food, 265 ff.
of food and nutrition, coöpera-

tive study, 436
of nutrition, 273
of optical glass, 95, 114 ff.

psychological, 386 ff.
Psychological examining, cost of,

376
methods of, 358 ff.

summary of, 374
ratings, values of, 373
service, principal lines of, 355

theory of, 358

value of, 375
Psychology, 351 ff.

Ratings, psychological, 362
Ration, for average man, 270
Reconstruction, and surgery, 326

in hospitals, 289
Re-education, and surgery, 326
Research, coöperation in, 393 ff.
Extension, Division of, Na-

tional Research Council,

427
Research, organization of, 405 ff.
Information Service, of Nation-

al Research Council, 34,

35, 429
inception of, 34-37
Laboratories, 430

personnel, 431
Respiratory diseases, 302
Root, E., on organization of sci-

ence, 394
Russell, F. F., 277 ff.

Sanitary engineering, 281
School for military psychology,

356
Scientific attaché, office of, 35, 36
Selective service, 284
Serum, anti-gas gangrene, 301
Shells, cast-iron, 259
Shell-shock, (war neuroses), 291
Shock, investigation of, 27

surgical, treatment of, 317
Signal Corps, Division of Sci-

ence and Research of, 22

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