The Scientific Monthly (V. 5)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...they live in their own homes. Natural environment determines in large measure the nature of that domicile. Weather conditions are now considered by the conscientious architect in planning the construction of such a dwelling, and the artificial climate which is to be created within it. Professor of geology in the Johns Hopkins University. eminent for his contributions to geology, who dled on July 27 at the age of fifty-seven years. THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL AND THE WAR As has been described in The Scientific Monthly, the National Research Council was organized under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the President of the United States to promote scientific research and especially to cooperate with the government in the present emergency. It has now become a department of the National Defence Council, dealing with the organization of science and research as affected by the war. As our government through its scientific departments devotes more attention to scientific work than any other nation, they would be the natural agencies to take charge of the applications of science to the national welfare in the present emergency. It may, however, be that better results can be secured by calling on the scientific men of the whole nation who are the best fitted for such service. This was indeed the plan of the government in making the National Academy of Sciences its scientific adviser. Dr. George E. Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory of the Carnegie Institution, is chairman of the National Research Council, and gave his entire time to the work at Washington until his recent return to California; Dr. Robert A. Millikan, professor of physics in the University of Chicago, now...