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 significance 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 Charcoal, and gas warfare, 156 Chemistry, analytic research, 167 of explosives, 123 ff., 134 ff. Infectious diseases, 293 jaundice, 297 Influenza, 305, 306 ff., 339 ff. causes of, 344-346 Metallurgy, Intelligence, and military value, and occupation, 378 International Astronomical Un- organization of research, 405 ff. objects of, 411 scientific organization, 407 Jaundice, infectious, 297 Kapteyn, coöperative study of Kellogg, V., 265 ff. Lachrymators, 166 Map, making, 193 of system of wires, 224 Medical Corps, personnel of, 277 Mental age, of recruits, 375 247 ff. Meteorology, applications of, 46, 49 ff. Millikan, R. A., 33 ff. Munroe, C. E., 134 ff. Napoleon, science under, 3 ff. Institute of France, 5 Research Council, and Govern- and Psychological Service, 352 National Research Council, Di- 34 of Science and Research of Signal Corps, 22 organization and functions of, Research Information Service, services of, 13 ff. Negro, intelligence of, 376 New London, scientific work at, fixation 125 ff. processes, Northcliffe, Lord, and submarine Occupation, and classification, 379 contributions of, 364 ff. 351 Publications, scientific, 432-433 Radio communication, 230 precision and range, 245 Ratings, psychological, 362 Re-education, and surgery, 326 Research, organization of, 405 ff. 35, 429 inception of, 34-37 personnel, 431 Respiratory diseases, 302 Root, E., on organization of sci- Sanitary engineering, 281 Scientific attaché, office of, 35, 36 Serum, anti-gas gangrene, 301 Shell-shock, (war neuroses), 291 surgical, treatment of, 317 ence and Research of, 22 |