RT Journal
T1 CEntenary of the american journal of science
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 25
VO 72
IS 4
SP 278
OP 279
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610040044021
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610040044021
AB It would be unfortunate indeed if the distractions of the world war and the enormous demands made by it on the energies of men in medicine compelled them to overlook entirely what would have been, in peace times, a significant event. Last July the American Journal of Science, familiarly known for many years as Silliman's Journal, celebrated its centennial. This is the only scientific periodical in this country to maintain an uninterrupted existence since that early date, and this honor is shared with hardly more than half a dozen other independent scientific periodicals in the world at large. Similar publications of learned societies for the same period are also few in number. The history of the enterprise, together with reviews of the century's progress in the fundamental physical, chemical and biologic sciences, written by eminent men of science, has been published in an anniversary issue.1Amid the wealth of