The Organisation of Embryological Research in America

Abstract

WHEN British anatomists come to examine “Contributions to Embryology,”¹ which have been issued by the Carnegie Institution of Washington as publications numbers 221, 222, they will be less than human if they do not feel a twinge of jealousy. Five-and-twenty years ago anatomists in America were British in method and in spirit; they were easy-going, each man following leisurely his own individual bent. Since that time a remarkable change has taken place; the onumber of laboratories in which the structure and development of the human body are taught and investigated have increased tenfold; the number of investigators has grown in a still greater ratio; in quantity and quality their anatomical proceedings and journals of have come to rival those of any country in Europe.