SCIENCE VOL. LXX
No. 1819
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929
Surface Structure and Atom Building: PROFESSOR 433 W. D. HARKINS .......... The American Association for the Advancement of Science: The Regular Fall Meeting of the Executive Committee: PROFESSOR BURTON E. LMINGSTON .................. 442 Obituary:
University and Educational Notes .450 Discussion: Collecting in the Lower Eocene: DR. EDWARD L. TROxELL. Concerning the Mediterranean Fruit Fly: PROFESSOR G. F. FERRIS. The Micrometric Muddle: JOHN P. CAMP. Oestrus during Pregnancy: WARREN 0. NELSON. Alcaligenes abortus from the Spinal Fluid: DR. FREDERICK W. SHAW 451 Beports: The New Intercollegiate Geological ExThe New England .454 cursion: DR. W. G. FOYE
Special Articles: Vitamin B Deficiency in Nursing Young Bats and Learning Ability: SIEGFRIED MAURER and LoH SENG TSAI.
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SURFACE STRUCTURE AND ATOM BUILDING1 By Professor W. D. HARKINS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
learned in the whole life work of dozens of other I. INTRODUCTION I WISH to express my great appreciation of the prominent chemists. The number of facts which may be found in experiunexpected honor which is conferred upon me by mental work in any science is so great, and at the the award of the Willard Gibbs medal, established so limited in scope, that their discovery is same time and through the generosity of William A. Converse, worth while unless they can be correlated with seldom American the bestowed by a jury chosen from facts to other give general relations. The most genbeen has Gibbs For many years Chemical Society. one of my heroes of science, and I am very proud eral of these relations are often dignified by their to have my name associated with his in this way. As designation as laws of nature. Thus scientists may you know, he was the greatest of American chemists be classified as those who discover facts and those without being, in the technical sense, a chemist at all. who classify or correlate them, or as experimentalists The student of chemistry who shies at mathematics and theorists. Usually the experimentalist needs to may well take this fact into account, for Gibbs at be, at least in a limited way, a good theorist, though his desk discovered in a few years more concerning it is not essential that the theorist be an adept in the relations of chemical phenomena than has been experiment. For this reason, Gibbs was able to 1 The Willard Gibbs lecture delivered in connection become the greatest of theoretical chemists without with the award of the Willard Gibbs gold medal by the the acquisition of any of the ordinary experimental Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society, May technique of the science. 25, 1928. Revised May 18, 1929.
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Edwin E. Slosson; Becent Deaths .......................... 443 Scientific Events: The Florida Anthropoid Laboratory of Yale University; The Chemical Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire; The De Lamar Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University; Degrees Conferred by Columbia University; In Honor of Mime. Curie 444 447 Scientific Notes and News ...................
Scientific Apparatus and Laboratory Methods: A Useful Modification of Amann 's Medium: DR. WILLIAM H. WESTON, JR. A Circuit Breaker for Water-cooled X-ray Tubes: A. A. BLESS ........................ 455
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