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rejected according to their merits; and where 
if accepted they will be read and subject to 
criticism. This is publishing in the true sense 
of the term, and is incumbent upon every in- 
vestigator. Confining an article to an official 
bulletin, however excellent and necessary it 
may be, often amounts to but little more than 
mere printing for private distribution, because 
scholars do not and will not wade through 
tedious bulletins and annals for that which 
they expect to find in a more condensed form 
in more accessible journals, 

When, for official reasons, the author is not 
free to do as he chooses, publication of any 
kind must have the sanction of the proper 
authority. Commonly, however, those in au- 
thority ate glad to grant this privilege to any 
one capable of writing a paper acceptable to 
the technical press. In fact they often urge it 
upon him for the sake of those who can profit 
by such articles, and incidentally for the well- 
deserved encouragement of the authors them- 
selves, and for the credit their work will bring 
to the institutions with which they are con- 
nected. They realize that it is an honor to 
any man to have his papers accepted by a dis- 
criminating scientific journal, and that the 
reputation of any institution is that of its 


* work that is known and no more. 


Every scientifie question should be investi- 
gated carefully, honestly, thoroughly; the re- 
sults published quickly, openly, fully. 

To discover is the scientist’s reward, to pub- 
lish is his duty. 

W. J. Humpnureys 
REFLEX ACTION APTER DEATH 

On the afternoon of April 27, 1909, while 
returning from the day’s work on precise 
leveling, over the Santa Fe Railroad, to Goffs, 
California, the velocipede car on which I was 
riding passed over a rattlesnake, which was 
lying between the rails. It rattled, and I 
stopped the car and went back to investigate, 
It was what is locally known as the “side- 
winder,” by which I understand it to be the 
horned rattlesnake, or Crotalus cerastes. Tt 
was lying stretched to nearly its full length, 
and rattled again, without coiling. Taking a 


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THIS SUMMER ON MT. WASHINGTON 


To the Hditor of the Transcript: » 

For thirty-five years an occasional 
guest upon this Summit has peén heard 
to exclaim: “Oh, if Tt could see this old 


stone shelter was here!” or again: “If I 
could live in the primitive manner of the 
pioneers!” The tourist to Mt. Washing- 
ton this season is enjoying just those 
experiences. ' 

‘The old Tip-Top House, bearing the 
weather worn sign-board “Erected in 
41853” has survived all its néighbors, and 
this August morning stands with open 
doors, the only shelter on the Summit to 
provide food for the hunevy and a refuge 
for the tired wayfarer. The story of the 
rejuvenation of this old structure may 
be of interest to the thousands of visitors 
who, in former years, have marveled that 
it was ever used as 4 habitation. One 
who has ever seen It will remember the 
strange construction of the Tip-Top 


stones piled several feet in thicknéss, sup- 
port the roof that is chained in defiance 
to the mountain tempests. Narrow win- 
dows in deep recesses permit scanty light 
to, penetrate the interior and withal, its 
old-time appearance invited only hasty 
inspection, 

When the new Summit House was 
opened in 1873 the Tip-Top House be- 
eame one of the sights of the Summit, 
For a few years it was occupied as a 
printing office by Among the Clouds, then 
it was abandoned and used only for 
storage purposes. The roof was kept 
shingled; the windows were boarded up, 
this was practically all the care it had 
received during its many years of almost 
abandonment. Wind and rain and win- 
ter storms played havoc through it and 
each recurring season found the old 
pbuilding more and more in a state of de- 
lapidation, But it was only biding its 
time, The destruction of the Summit 
House and other buildings on the 18th of 
June, last, left only the Tip-Top House 
to tell of former occupancy. Without 
honor and ridiculed for a third of a cen- 
tury, it was, nevertheless destined to 
achieve new fame and to preserve un- 
sullied Mt. Washington’s reputation for 
unfailing hospitality. 

That the Summit could offer more than 
a mere shelter this season seemed impos- 
sible. Repeated consultations of those in 
authority confirmed the opinion. But they 
reckoned without their host. Reeking tim- 
bers, protruding walls, dampness and the 
litter of years’ accumulations did not ob- 
secure the vision; ‘It can be done” became 
the slogan, and the visitor of today may 
pehold its truthfulness. Just as many men 
as could be employed in the old structure 
were given work, and presto! In two weeks 
the Tip-Top House was not only habitable, 
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to gratify that wish for the “experiences 

of the Summit pioneers.” The interior 

of the Tip-Top House is renovated beyond 

comprehension. New walls. and ceilings, 

stained walnut color, give an ancient ap- 

pearance to the apartment, while the walls, ° 
which. had first been lined with thick clap- 

poard paper, are hung with figured red and 

green cloth. Two immense coal stoves 

defy the cold. The first floor is divided 

into two rooms by a partition midway the 
ends. The front is the Hving room. The 

second is fitted up as a lunch room, A 
Jong counter, a la railroad station style, 
furnishes 4 substantial menu to weary pil- 
grims. Here, too, is the family dining 
table, and after the departure of guests the 
room is used for the varied purposes of 
kitchen and pantry. 

What was the little sunset observatory 
on the west end of the house is now a 
kitchen. A big hotel range and paker and 
a small table occupy every inch of available 
space. The eddying currents of wind 
around the Summit may and do very often 
cause the chimneys to smoke and drive 
in retreat the’ faithful cooks, put « when 
meal time approaches, as in the old Sum- . 
mit House, the larder is never empty. The 
chambers, as to size, are exactly as in the 
early days, excepting where the skylights 
have been boarded up and two rooms have 
been made into one. x-President Pierce 
once slept in one of them; so have many 
other dignitaries; and now we in turn are 
finding in them absolute comfort, thank- 
ful that the fire spared even this primitive 
shelter. 

Some nights are*very ‘eold; then just’ be- 
fore the early hour when we retire, oil 
heaters aré placed along the sorridors and 
In the same way in 
the morning the watchman attends to our 


comfort, and hot water never was so ac- 
Frank 


Unfortunately, the old 
Tip-Top House ‘can accommodate no over- 
night guests. After the departure of the 
noon train we are much alone, save as the 
trampers come in. from their walks over 
the mountain. Of necessity, the daily life 
of the Summit colony is simplicity itself. 
But all day long the winds sing to us; 
the rocks preach to us and the fleeting 
clouds remind us of how short the experi- 
ence which is ours, which at best “apideth 
put for a season.” N. H. L. 
Old Tip-Top House, Summit Mt. Wash- 
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fj _ OHARLES 
i LN ya fh gs Salgonee | \ sf 
The late Professor Mead, whose death 
recently in New Haven was little noticed 
in. Boston, was not merely a scholar 
and thinker, but a remarkably  lov- 
able man. As a scholar he was patient, 
discriminating and thorough, and united ‘ace 
curacy with literary power. These qualities 
fitted him eminently for: his service as a 
“member of the Company of Revisers of tho 
Old Testament. It will be remembered that 
in the edition of the Revised Bible first pub - 
lished, when the preferences of the English: 
ana Américan revisers differed, those of | 
the Wnglishmen were placed in the text 
and those of the Americans in the Appen- 
dix. It was also mutually agreed that for 
ten years this should be the only form of 
the Revised Bible published. As the ex- 
piration of this period drew near, the sur- 
viving American revisers prepared the 
American Revision for publication. Much 
the larger part of this labor, ‘which contin: 
tied through five years, fell upon Professor 
Mead, The comparison of views between 
the five cevisers, who lived far apart, in- 
volved a vast amount of correspondence. 
The reconsideration of language, the prep- 
aration of references and the proof-reading 
demanded much time and toil, The result 
of these labors is now very generally recog- 
nized as the best English version of the 
Biblé which we possess. Let us not forget 
the gratitude due to those who at great 
self-sacrifice and without a penny of finan- 
cial y:ward gave us this blessing, } 
Professor’ Mead was eminent not merely 
as a scholar, but as a thinker. Thought, 
rather than the niceties of learning, was his 
delight, In, his professorship of Hebrew at 
Andover he was faithful, but in his pro- 
fessorship of systematic theology at Hart- 
ford he occupied his congenial field. His 
two volumes, “Supernatural Revelation” 
and ‘‘Irenic .Theology,”’ aye for clearness 
‘and beauty of style, and vigor of thought. 
among the best religious writings ef recent 
years. In his jeu d' esprit, “Romans Dis- 
sected, by H. D. McRealsham,”' his aim was 
to satirize, not the legitimate Higher’ Criti- 
cism, but hasty and sweeping assertions 
which assume that nfme. at ae 
Professor Mead was not merely a Chris- 


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MARSH MBAD | 


‘|. his eentiments of not, he could not help re-” 


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tian scholar, but @ patriotic citizen. He 
kept posted ‘upon all important events oc+ 
curring in our country and the world, and 

' was eager that they should make for right- 
eotisness. He wrote often for the newspa-. 
pers, and whether the reader agreed with 


specting the writer. Now-it-was a protest 
against our occupation of the Philippines. | 
Again it was an appeal to our Government, 
by declining to fortify the Panama. Canal, 
“to carry the world a step forward toward 
universal peace. Again, it was a defence 
of. the great name, of Daniel Webster froma 
the charge of drunkenness. J 

He loved his country and thought it the 
pest land on earth, put he detested the « n- 
ceited assumption that America leads the 
world in everything. He saw, on the con- 
trary, that the older jJands have many. les- 
gons to teach us, not merely about art and 
science, but about home life, civil govern- 
ment, honesty, reverence, cottentment and 
courtesy. ' \ 

He was eminently a man of devotional 
spirit) a true worshipper of God. No An- 
dover student of his time can forget how 
his clear, musical voice used to lead the: 
singing at daily prayers. And as he took 
part in singing the hymns in the Yale 
University chapel, on the Sunday pefore his 
death, nis voice retained much of its old 
quality. \ 

His whole soul demanded in public wor- 
ship the union of reverence and intelligence. 
Wor this yeason the responsive readings of 
Scripture, as they are commonly rendered 
‘in our churehes, were positively repus-, 
nant to him. To have the glorious, sub> 
lime words of psalmists and prophets rat-. 
tled off as though one were summoning a 
‘yailway porter, seemed to him desecration. | 
In the most beautiful sense of the words, 
. Professor Mead was an everyday man. He 
was as simple and unpretentious as a 
child. He never tried to impress his friends 
with his own importance, His conversation 
was yaried, entertaining, often humorous, 
full of valuablé facts and thoughts, but not 
tmonopolizing. He cared as much, or more, 
to hear what his friend had to say, as 10 


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eae Rey, Dr. Charles Marsh Mead, for 
tee years a professor at the Andover 
eological Seminary, and 
‘ later at the 
‘ate Snleh al died suddenly last week 
W Haven. Dr. Mead, who 

: A se home w. 
in Cornwall, Vt., was ce 
: ie one of the original 
nae of the American Bible Revision 
o muakttoe, and was active in the work of 
revision of the Old and New Testaments 
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ae born in 1836; he graduated from 
ebury College in 1856, and from A 
dover Seminary in 1862 ae 


Three 
German universitie ae 


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gree which be gained at Tiibingen 5 


From |: 


Middlebury he received the D.D, and LL.D 1 


vere hte the former degree. His 
'KS Include: “Exodus” (in ‘a 

mentary), “The Soul <5 si Ave oom 
Supernatural Revelation,” “Romans Dis 
Sagted (under pen-name EH, D. Se ta 
also in German, “Der Roémerbrief be 
theilt und geviertheilt,” under a ats 
Carl Hesedamm), “Christ and Criticism i 


and “Irenic Theology.” @ 9—teu), “Fel 


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The Cambrian Rocks of Vermont: G. H. PERKINS, 

State Geologist of Vermont. 

So far as satisfactorily determined, the Cam- 
brian of Vermont occupies a narrow strip from 
north to south through the state between the 
Green Mountains and Lake Champlain. In some 
places they reach the shore of that lake and form 
the boldest of the headlands. 

Northward the Cambrian extends to the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence and south through New York to 
middle Alabama. 

It is probable that there are derivatives from 
Cambrian strata in and east of the Green Moun- 
tains, but none have been certainly identified. So 
far as studied, all the beds belong to the Olenellus 
zone of Walcott, or Lower Cambrian. The very 
interesting and extensive fault and overthrust by 
which Cambrian strata were lifted and thrown 
over the Utica is noticed, In all there are not 
less than 10,000 feet of Cambrian beds in western 
Vermont. These beds consist of 1,000 feet of more 
or less silicious limestone, and the other rocks are 
shales, sandstones, quartzites, conglomerates, of 
very diverse color composition and texture. In a 
few places the red sandrock beds change to a 
thick-bedded brecciated calcareous rock which 
when worked is the Winooski or Champlain 
marble—a mottled red and white stone used in 
many large buildings in many parts of the 
country. 

Few of the beds are fossiliferous, but some 
abound in trilobites, Olenellus, Ptychoparia, ete., 
and a few brachiopods, worm burrows, trilobite 
and other tracks, ete., are also found. In all the 
number of species is not large, probably not more 
than fifty have been found. Of these, trilobites 
form the larger number, brachiopods coming next. 

A large portion of the species were described from 
the Vermont beds and many have not been found 
elsewhere. 

Most of the beds are thin, but there are some 
several feet thick. 

The great beds of roofing slate which are ex- 
tensively worked in southwestern Vermont are 
included in the Cambrian. 


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The Rev. Dr. Charles Marsh Mead, for 
fifteen years a professor at the Nadover 
Theological Seminary, and later at the 
Hartford Seminary, died suddenly last week 
at New Haven. Dr, Mead, whose home was 
in Cornwall, Vt., was one of the original 
members of the American Bible Reyvisio: 
Committee, and was active in the work 
the revision of the Old and New Testaments 
He was born in 1836; he graduated trate 


Middlebury College in 1856, and from An- 
dover Seminary in 1862, 


Three year 
German universities led up sd 


: to the Ph.D. de- 
gree which be gained at Tiibingen 


From |: 


Middlebury he received the D.D. and 


and from Princeton the former degree. His 
works include: “Exodus” (in Lange's Com- 
wouaheken “The Soul Here and Hereafter,” 
Supernatural Revelation,” “Romans Dis- 
mactan! (under pen-name E, D. McRealsham 
also in German, “Der Rémerbrief Sew 
theilt und geviertheilt,” under pen-name 
Carl Hesedamm), “Christ and Criticism My 
and “Irenic Theology,” ‘2 Je Gul 


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the Vermont beds and many have not been found 
elsewhere. 

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DISOUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
EARLIER REFERENCES TO THE RELATION OF FLIES 
TO DISEASE 
Tx the last number of Science (January 
7) there is an interesting note by Dr. E. W. 
Gudger on Edward Bancroft’s reference, in 
1769, to the belief that flies transmit the trop- 
ical disease known as “yaws.” It is not gen- 
erally known that as early as the sixteenth 
century there was definitely promulgated the 
theory that flies play a réle in the transmis- 

sion of the plague. 

Dr. Josiah Nott, 1849, lists Athanasius 
Kircher as among the earlier writers who be- 
lieved that insects served as transmitters of 
disease. Dr. Kelly, in his fascinating volume 
“Walter Reed and Yellow Fever,’ goes 
further and quotes from Kircher’s “ Scru- 
tinium Physico-medicum,” published at Rome 
in 1658, the remarkable statement: 

There can be no doubt that flies feed on the 
internal secretions of the diseased and dying, then 
flying away, they deposit their excretions on the 
food in neighboring dwellings, and persons who 
eat it are thus infected* 

Unfortunately, Dr. Kelly’s translation stops 

1 Apropos of the present-day belief that blood- 
sucking and stinging insects may occasionally be 
direct inoculators of disease germs, the following 
statement from the same work is of interest: 
“In a recent plague at Naples, while a certain 
nobleman was looking out a window a hornet flew 
in and lighted on his nose and stinging him with 
the sharp point of its proboscis, caused a swelling. 
And when the poison had gradually spread and 
crept into the vital organs, within a space of two 
days (without doubt from the contagious humours 
which the insect had sucked up from a corpse), 

he contracted the disease and died.” 


bs 2 ar ; 
114 frky AG,IGIS 

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species of insects, is expected to supply valu- 
able information to scientific investigators and 
to give guidance to the different administra- 
tions, by indicating the lines of advance of 
the disease and the districts which require 
The duties of 
the director of the bureau will for the present 
be undertaken by Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, of the 
Uganda Medical Staff, 


special protective measures. 


BHAUPERTHUY ON MOSQUITO-BORN 
DISHASES 

Dr. AGRAMOoNTE, in 

the Havana Cronica 


an article quoted from 
Medico by the British 
Medical Journal, calls attention to the pioneer 
work of Louis Daniel Beauperthuy, born in 
Guadeloupe in 1808. Writing in the Gaceta 
Oficial de Cumana in May, 1853, Beauperthuy 
says: 


To the work I undertook (health officer in a 
yellow fever epidemic in Cumana) I brought the 
knowledge gained during fourteen years’ micro- 
scopic observation of the blood and secretions in 
every type of fever. These observations were of 
great service to me in recognizing the cause of 
yellow fever and the fitting methods of combating 
this terrible malady. With regard to my investi- 
gations on the etiology of yellow fever I must 
abstain for the present from making them publie. 
They form part of a prolonged study, the results 
of which are facts so novel and so far removed 
from all hitherto accepted doctrines that I ought 
not to publish them without adducing fuller evi- 
dence in support. Moreover, I am sending to the 
Académie de Paris a communication which con- 
tains a summary of the observations I have made 
up to the present, the object of which is to secure 
the priority of my discoveries concerning the 
cause of fevers in general... . 

The affection known as yellow fever or black 
vomit is due to the same cause as that producing 
intermittent fever, 

Yellow fever is in no way to be regarded as a 
contagious disease. 

The disease develops itself under condi- 
tions which favor the development of mosquitos. 

The mosquito plunges its proboscis into the 
skin ... and introduces a poison which has prop- 
erties akin to that of snake venom. It softens 
the red blood corpuscles, causes their rupture. . . 
and facilitates the mixing of the coloring matter 
with the serum. 


SCIENCE 


[N.S. Von, XXVIII. No. 708 


The agents of this yellow fever infection are of 
a considerable number of species, not all being of 
equally lethal character. The eancudo bobo, with 
legs striped with white, may be regarded as more 
or less the house-haunting kind... . 

Remittent, intermittent and pernicious fevers, 
just like yellow fever, haye as their cause an 
animal, or vegeto-animal virus, the introduction 
of which into the human body is brought about 
by inoculation, 

Intermittent fevers are graye in proportion to 
the prevalence of mosquitos, and disappear or lose 
much of their severity in places which, by reason 
of their elevation, have few of these insects. 

The expression “winged snakes ” employed by 
Herodotus is peculiarly applicable to the mos- 
quito and the result of its bite on the human 
organism. 

Marshes do not communicate to the atmosphere 
anything more than humidity, and the small 
amount of hydrogen they give off does not cause 
in man the slightest indisposition in equatorial 
and intertropical regions renowned for their un- 
healthiness. Nor is it the putrescence of the 
water that makes it unhealthy, but the presence 
of mosquitos. 


It was to the Gaceta Oficial de Cumana that 
Beauperthuy seems to have written most, fully, 
but he made more than one communication 
to the Académie des Sciences. One of these, 
dated from Cumana, January 18, 1856, is en- 
titled “ Researches into the Cause of Asiatic 
Cholera and into that of Yellow Fever and 
Marsh Fever,” and in this he says that as 
early as 1839 his investigations in unhealthy 
localities in South America had convinced him 
that the so-called marsh fevers were due to a 
vegeto-animal virus inoculated into man by 
mosquitos. 


SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

Oxrorp University has conferred its doc- 
torate of science on Dr. F. Raymond, of the 
Hépital de la Salpétriére, professor in the 
University of Paris; J. J. Harris Teall, M.A., 
F.R.S., director of H.M. Geological Survey; 
and James Ward, ScD., fellow of Trinity 
and professor of mental philosophy in Cam- 
bridge University. 

Dr. BirKevanp, 
Christiana, 


physies at 
given the honorary 


professor of 


has been 


to mathematics covers almost the whole 
range of the subject, from arithmetic to 
the elements of the calculus, required of 
our engineering students, there is nowhere 
any reference to students of engineering 
or to any other special class of students. 
I might, therefore, appear out of order in 
speaking of this report at the present occa- 
sion. But I wish to say most emphatically 
that, in my opinion, there is no special 
‘¢mathematies for engineers’’; nor is there 
any method of teaching mathematics, spe- 
cially adapted to engineering students. 
If it is wrong to present mathematics in a 
form so abstract as to make it unintel- 
ligible to the student, it is just as wrong to 
present the results of mathematics in a 
form so conerete as to reduce the science to 
a mere art of performing certain mechan- 
ical operations, to make it, as the saying 
goes, a mere tool, and not a habit of think- 
ing. 

In conclusion allow me to say that I 
should be the last to advocate a remodeling 
of our institutions of learning on the Ger- 
man plan, or the French plan, or any other 
existing plan. But I believe that the time 
has come in this country when one or two 
years of general college study can be de- 
manded as preparation for the professional 
engineering course, at least for those more 
able students who wish to obtain a thor- 
oughly scientific preparation for their pro- 
fessional career. An opportunity should 
then be offered to students of engineering 
of scientific ability to extend their knowl- 
edge on the theoretical side. 

ALEXANDER ZIWET 

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 


THH BRITISH BUREAU OF SLEEPING 
SICKNESS 
Tir British Colonial Office has issued the 
following statement: 
At the instance of the late secretary of 
state for the colonies and with the cooperation 


JuLy 24, 1908] SCIENCE 


of the government of the Su 
Royal Society, his majesty’s gov’ 
decided to establish in London 
the collection and general distri 
formation with regard to sleey 
The Royal Society will find ac 
for the bureau at Burlington H 
fourth of the cost of up-keep wi 
the Sudan government. 

The bureau will be under the 
trol and direction of an honor: 
of management, appointed by a 
to the seeretary of state for the « 
committee will be composed of 
Chairman, the Right Honorable 
Ridgeway, G.C.B., who is also 
the advisory committee of the tr 
research fund; Sir Patrick 4 
K.C.M.G., F.R.S.; Sir Rubert ! 
Dr. Rose Bradford, F.R.S. (re 
Royal Society); Colonel D. 
F.R.S.; Mr. E. A. Walrond 
senting the foreign office); Mo 
C.M.G. (representing the colon 
Mr. R. Popham Lobb, of the ec 
secretary. 

The main function of the 
will be administered by a pai 
be to collect from all soure 
regarding sleeping sickness, 1 
dense, and, where necessary, 
information, and to distribute 
quickly as possible among thc 
gaged in combating the diseai 
cations of the bureau will be « 
categories, viz., scientific publi 
for those who are engaged i 
or in earrying out medical a: 
the infected districts, and p 
less technical character for th 
ment officials, missionaries a} 
duties involve residence in 

One important piece of wi 
preparation of a map of the 
Africa, showing the distribut 
and of the different species 
insects which are suspected 
A map of this kind showing 
extent to which the distribw 
coincides with the distributi 


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is thrown into diagonal folds, but seems to 
preserve some of the muscular contour. 

On the tail of another specimen of Tracho- 
don, from the American Museum Cope Col- 
lection, the entire epidermis is covered with 
flattened scales of larger size, nearly a centi- 
meter in diameter. 

This disposition of the scales into the 
larger pavement groups and smaller tubercu- 
lar areas is unlike that observed by the writer 
in any lacertilian; it appears to be unique. 
In a second paper the longitudinal and per- 
pendicular arrangement of the clusters will 
be more fully made out. 

Mr. Sternberg has added another of his im- 
portant contributions to science through the 
fortunate discovery of this unique specimen, 
in a geologic region which was very generally 
considered as thoroughly prospected out. 

Henry Fairrieip Osporn 
BOTANICAL NOTES 
SHORT NOTES 


In the March number of the Journal of 
Botany R. F. Rand begins his altogether 
interesting “ Wayfaring Notes in Rhodesia ” 
which remind one of the notes made by the 
traveling botanists of a century or so ago. 
Here one finds morphological, ecological, tax- 
onomie and critical notes delightfully com- 
mingled. 

AKIN to the foregoing are the notes on 
English plants made by Matthew Dodsworth, 
a seventeenth century botanist, now first pub- 
lished in the Journal of Botany for March, 
by the editor. It is interesting to note such 
names as “ Wild Williams ” (for Lychnis flos- 
cuculi) and “ Woodbind” (for Woodbine). 
A couple of letters to Plukenet are dated 1680 
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Thursday, June 10th. Meeting at 225 Common- 
wealth Ave., Boston, at 1.50 P.M., leave at 
2 o'clock and go via Lancaster, Clinton, 
Wachusett Reservoir, Oakdale, #6 Wachusett 
House, Princeton, for the night. 


Friday, June llth. A.M. to South Deerfield, 
Mrs. Rosie Warren's for lunch. 
In P.M., via Amherst Agricultural College, 
Amherst College, and Smith College in 
Northampton, to Ashfield, ‘spending the night 
at the Ashfield Inn. 


Saturday, June 12th. In A.M., over Hoosac Mt., 
or around it on its North side, to Williams- 
town, Greylock Inn. 

P.M., via Pittsfield to Hotel Aspinwall, Len~ 
ox, for the night. 


Sunday, June 13th. A.M., in and around Lenox, 
and to Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, for noon 
meal. 

P.M., to Worthey's Springfield, or possibly 
the Hazard place, Enfield, Conn., Willis 
Rockwell, Mgr., for the night. 


Monday, June 14th. To Leicester Inn, Leicester, 
for lunch, and Boston in P.M. 


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Cattle Bureau of the Mass. State Board of Agriculture. 
GERTIFIGATE OF INSPECTION OF CATTLE, SHEEP, SWINE AND GOATS. 


| 
| (SEcTION 18, CHAPTER 90, Revisep Laws, AND CHAPTER 116, ACTS OF 1902.) 
TO BE GIVEN TO THE OWNER OR PERSON IN CHARGE. 


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7 | Town of-eity of 07 aba Weaker ee Month,.... (C/o... Day; eto cone 190... 
I hereby certify that I have ts day examined the following animals, said to be owned by 
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Upon a physical examination I find no evidence of tuberculosis or other contagious disease 


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"ne tor of Animals. 
upon a physical examination. 


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DECEMBER WAS COLD. 


Much Sunshine Also Characterized 
Month---Blue Hill Summary for the 
Year. 

Colder weather than usual prevail- 
ed during December, with an abund- 
ance of sunshine and the average pre- 
cipitation. The mean temperature of 
the month was 25.7 degrees which is 
3.0 degrees below the normal and the 
lowest for December since 1906, The \ 
j highest temperature reached was 50 
degrees on the 6th and the minimum 
of the month was one below zero on 
the 31st. More than one-half the pre- 
cipitation was in the form of snow, | 
20 inehes falling, 18 inches coming 
during the storm of the . 25th-26th. 
The total snowfall was: nine inches 
more than the average amount and 
ihe greatest in December since 1904. 
1.66.inches of rain fell during the 
month, the most in one day being 1.29 
inches on the 14th. 

There wag about the ustial amount 
of relative humidity and there was 
| less cloudiness than is customary. 
The total amount of sunshine was 
15 per cent. greater than the average, 
There was more than the normal 
amount of wind, the mean velocity 
being the highest for December since 
1903. The maximum velocity was 75 
miles per hour from the northeast 
on the 26th. The prevailing wind di- 


rection was west and there was a 
marked absence of south and east 
winds. 


1909 was notable for its warm win- 
ter, high wind velocities throughout 
the year and’an excess of sunshine 
during most of the months. The 
mean temperature for the year was 
47.6 degrees, 0.8 degrees warmer than 
the normal and the highest since 1906. 
The total precipitation of the year 
was 43.29 inches which is 3.71 inches 
less than the average amount. This, 
however, is much more than fell in 
1908 when only 37.28 inches were re- 
corded. 1909 was the windiest year 
since 1897, January, September and 
October being the only months with 
mean velocities below normal, and the 
only months in which the maximum 
velocity was under 50 miles per hour 
were June and September, 

L, A. Wells. 

Blue Hill Observatory, 


Jan, 4, 1910. 
THE WEATHER IN 1909. 
During the year 1909 there were 


205 clear days, 268 fair days, 104 
cloudy days, and 60 partly cloudy 
,days. Rain fell on or part of 79 days 
(1908, 75). Snow fell on or part of 
22 days (1908, 20). There was thun- 
der on 10 days (1908, 15). The pre- 
vailing wind was west with a ‘total 
of 91 days. The number of days be- 
low zero was 2 (1908, 3). The warm- 
est day was Sunday, August 7th, 98 
degrees. Coldest day, Wednesday, 
December 3ist, —2. Coldest day at ( 
12 o'clock, December 30th, 9 degrees. 
First frost, Monday, September 20th. 
First appearance of snow, Thursday, 
October 28th. 


Lewis McHardy, 


_———— 


| FEW ZERO DAYS COMING 


i 


EVEN FREEZING OFTEN ABSENT AT 
THANKSGIVING 


Boston Christmases Usually Little Colder 

Than November Feast—Only Two 01 
Three Days Below Zero in the City’s 
Average Winter—Cold Waves and the 
Price of Eggs—Some Modern Marked 
Fallacies Shown to Be Aged—New Eng- 
land’s Climate Not So Bad After All 


A change ir climate is takin lace ver 
sénsibly. Both heats and calte are paCorne 
ing much more moderate within the mem- 
ory of even the middle-aged. Snows are 
less frequent and less deep. They do not 
often lie below the mountain more than 
one, two or three days, and very rarely a 
week, The snows are remembered to have 
been formerly frequent, deep, and of long 
continuance. The elderly inform me that 
the earth used to be covered with snow 


—about—thieremanthein averinarcen 
little study of the tables will show that 
the Christmas low temperaturés ara on 
the whole nearly as high as the Thanksgiy- 
ing lows. Twelve Christmases out of thir- 
ty-seven had minimum temperatures above 
freezirg, as against fifteen such Thanks- 
| giving’. Clear days number eleven, against 
ten for Thanksgiving. 
87 CHRISTMAS DAYS—1872 TO 1908 


Temperature 
Min. Max. Weather, 
1874. 7 Clear 
88 Wholly cloudy 
43 Clear 


38 Cloudy, snow 

24 Cloudy 

45 Clear 

30 Clear 

39 Wholly cloudy, light snow 
88. | Wholly cloudy, light snow 
48 Clear t 

43 Partly cloudy 

34° Wholly cloudy, snow 

BA Cloudy, trace of snow 

28 Wholly cloudy 

54 Showers, mainly clear 

3G Cloudy, snow flurries 

60 Clear ’ 

65 Shower, mainly clear 

20 Clear 


z 41 Wholly cloudy, rain : 
! 26 Wholly cloudy, snow flurries 
, oT Cloudy 
9 48 Cloudy, rain 
t 43 Wholly cloudy 
} 23 Clear 
- 29 Clear 

37 Clear 
? 45 Glear, except shower 

45 Cloudy 

38 Wholly cloudy, ight rain 

4 Wholly ‘cloudy, snow j 
ri 45. Wholly cloudy 
"| 19 Wholly cloudy 
[ 37 Cloudy 
L 27 Wholly cloudy, light snow 
' 43 Cloudy 
4 b 49 Cloudy \ 
{! Average of lowest temperatures, 24.46 degrees, 
: Average of highest, 40,2 degrees. 
; Average for whole day, 37 years, 32.83 degrees, 
4| . Highest temperature, 65 degrees, in 1889, 
‘| -Gowest temperature, 8 below, in 1872. 
{ 12 days out of 87 with lowest temperature 
t above freezing. 


L Few Zero Days in Winter 


Two features of the Boston winter are 
of, high importance to everyone—the cold 
snaps, or cold waves, which most of us 
dreaid- the more because the Weather Bu- 
reaus sharpens our shivers In advance; and 
‘| the February temperature, which governs 
the price of eggs. This latter polnt fs one 
of generally unsuspected importance, for 
it means many thousands of dollars out or 
in of the Boston household purses, and 


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91 


y fall in dvepruary;, The iaigesi cweaeyes 


of February, or the early days of March, | 
Snow at Boston, thirty-one years: 


Average Depth, Greatest In 

Inches. Hours. | 
December ys cnasasdeupateue) on 9.0 
January \.ssereee ved somite Dike 14.7 
Fohtuary |...+.-<vesse eer On) 14.3 


Winter mean 32.6 inches, equivalent to 3:20 
inches of rain, which is about the monthly aver— 
age precipltation throughout the year. 1 
In the way of actual, visible sunshine, 
in proportion to the amount astronomically | 
possible, the Boston winter does pretty } 
well, and compares favorably with, all but | 
the three summer months. The following 
table brings out clearly the bad position of 
the month of November in this regard, for 
its sunshine hours are decidedly fewer than | 

those of December. 
Boston sunshine, 1894 to 1903: 
Average 


December 
January . 
February 


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Winter mean. ..s.eeeeeeee ees 157 58.3 
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May .oe+-- 


Spring Mean,..+seecseeseesss 222 


June ..... 
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August ..... 


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September 
October . 
November 


Autumn mean.......- Povtehi= 1) aki Sa.0 
Cold Waves 


cold waves are of course the features of 

the season's Weather that have the widest | 
interest. The winter cold wave ia in | 
principle just Ike the recurring cooler | 
periods of other seasons, and seldom great- | 
ly exceeds those in range of temperature, | 
Its impresslveness is due to the fact thal 

tts low point gets into a region of |om-— 
peratyre where our bodies are nartiodianiigl 
sensitive. A cold waye is due to a high 
pressura centre, and fallows a low, or | | 
storm centre, just as clearing weather does 
in the summer, Highs, in this region, almost | 


ON THE SO-CALLED NoRWoop “ METEORITE” 


THE issue of Screnor for January 28 con- 
tains an article by Professor Frank W. Very 
entitled “Fall of a Meteorite in Norwood, 
Massachusetts,” descriptive of what he ‘sup- 
poses to have been a meteoritie stone said to 
have fallen on the farm of Mr. W. P. Nicker- 
son, of Norwood, Mass., during the night be- 
tween October 7-8, 1909. On account of the 
specifie character of the description and for 
fear that this may be successful in giving the 
“Norwood meteorite” a place in the litera- 
ture, I feel that another opinion with regard 
to the character of the specimen should be 
placed on record. 

I saw the newspaper account of this fall 
directly after its occurrence, and after cor- 
respondence with Mr. Nickerson took the first 
opportunity that presented itself to examine 
the specimen, which was then on exhibition 
in a “dime museum” in Boston. Myr. Nick- 
erson himself met me there and showed me the 
stone. Professor Very’s account of the ap- 
pearance of the mass is sufficiently accurate, 
but his interpretation of it is entirely errone- 
ous. As a matter of fact, the specimen is a 
characteristic glacial bowlder of a basic igne- 
ous dike rock, the matrix in which has been 
weathered so as to leave the characteristic 

large phenocrysts of plagioclase projecting 
from the surface. There is no surface indica- 
tion whatever of flowage or of the skin which 
is characteristic of freshly fallen stony 
meteorites. I broke off a piece of the stone 
and examined the fresh fracture with the 
greatest care under a hand lens without find- 
ing any indication of the existence of metallic 
iron in the mass. Since reading Professor 
Very’s article, I have had a thin section of 
my fragment made. Microscopie examination 
of this proves the rock to be ordinary labra- 
dorite-porphyry—a diagnosis which has been 
confirmed by Dr. H. 8. Washington, who has 
called my attention to his description of this 
rock type from Essex County, Mass. 

Mr. Nickerson told me about the broken 
bars of the gateway under which the mass was 
* Journal of Geology, Vol. 7, p. 290, 1899, 


Fesruary 25, 1910] SCIE 


found and the other circumstances as related 
by Professor Very, but he added a statement 
with regard to a bright flash of light which he 
had noticed in the sky during the evening of 
October 7. His description, however, was 
only that of an unusually brilliant shooting 
star. A meteorite of the size of this specimen 
would surely have illuminated the region 
over many square miles with almost the light 
of day, judging from the reports of known 
meteorites which have been seen to fall, but 
no such occurrence was reported from Nor- 
wood. If the falling of a meteorite was the 
cause of the broken bars, the mass has not 
yet been found, or at any rate it was other 
than the specimen described by Professor 
Very and seen by me. 

The circumstantial nature of the observa- 
tions made by the several persons who had 
to do with digging up the “meteorite,” as 
quoted in the article to which reference is 
made, are not as conclusive to me as they are 
to Professor Very, through scepticism en- 
gendered by the falsity of nearly all of the 
many reports that have come to my office dur- 
ing the past sixteen years in which people 
have described “meteorites” that they “had 
actually seen fall” at their feet or on the 
lawn in front of their houses, or in the road, 
or in some other very near-by place. On re- 
quest, samples of some of these “ meteorites ” 
have been sent in, one of them proving to be 
a piece of fossiliferous limestone, another a 
bit of furnace slag, another a glacial bowlder 
of trap rock, another a glazed stone that had 
been used in the wall of a limekiln, another a 
glacial bowlder of quartzite covered with a 
film of limonite. The list might be extended 
almost indefinitely, but it is not worth while. 
In almost every case mentioned, the mass 
when found “was so hot that one could not 
bear his hand on it.” 


Epmunp Oris Hovey 
AMERICAN Museum or Naturan History 


Thekior: Wotwoore F 


144 SCIENCE 


ward elastic reaction of the air becomes so 
great that the meteorite rebounds, but if the 
angle of the path is a high one, atmospheric 
friction and impact retard the meteoric veloc- 
ity to so great an extent that gravity gets the 
victory, and the last part of the meteoy’s fall 
is vertical. If this conclusion is correct, there 
should be some evidence that bolides which 
strike the ground fall more often than not in 
a vertical direction. I am not aware that such 
evidence has been sought, or especially noted. 
The present instance is so well authenticated, 
that it seems worth putting on record. Sub- 
sequent investigation has proved that the 
fall of the meteorite occurred at about quarter 
before seven o’clock on the evening of Thurs- 
day, October 7, as witnessed by several people 


in Norwood. Frank W. Very 
WEST woop, Mass.., 
October 12, 1909 


A LABORATORY ILLUSTRATION OF BALL LIGHTNING 


In Dr. Elihu Thomson’s address at the 
opening of the Palmer Physical Laboratory 
at Princeton University he made, with regard 
to ball lightning, the statement, “The diff- 
culty here is that it is too accidental and rare 
for consistent study, and we have not as yet 
any laboratory phenomena which resemble it 
closely.”* This suggested to me that a phe- 
nomenon which I witnessed some six or seven 
years ago might be worth recording. 

With a copper wire a student accidentally 
short-circuited the terminals of an ordinary 
110-volt circuit. I happened at the time to 
be a few meters from him and to be looking 
toward the terminals. At the instant of the 
short circuit I saw an incandescent ball which 
appeared to roll rather slowly from the ter- 
minals across the laboratory table and then 
disappeared. As I remember it, I should say 
that the ball may have appeared to be about 
three centimeters in diameter. I think no one 
else in the room saw anything more than a 
flash of light—much as if a fuse had blown. 
On the table where the ball had rolled we 
found a line of scorched spots, as if the ball 
had bounced along the table and had scorched 
the wood wherever it touched. As I remem- 

* Science, XXX., p. 868, December 17, 1909. 


[N.8, Vor. XXXI, No. 787 


ber them, these scorched spots were rather 
close together, perhaps not more than one or 
two centimeters apart. In the top of the table 
was a crack perhaps a millimeter or two wide, 
and at this crack the scorched line ended. In 
a drawer immediately under this crack we 
found a tiny copper ball, perhaps a millimeter 
in diameter. Apparently the ball that rolled 
along the table was incandescent copper vapor, 
although my memory of it is rather of a yel- 
low-white than of a greenish light. 

The above suggested the possibility of a 
laboratory study of a phenomenon which may 
very possibly be similar to that of ball light- 
ning, but I have never attempted to repeat 


the experiment. A. T. Jonzs 
Purpur Universrry 


BALL LIGHTNING 


To Tur Eprror or Science: In the address 
on “ Atmospheric Electricity” by Professor 
Elihu Thomson, on pages 867 to 868 in the 
issue of December 17, reference is made to 
lightning in the form of a ball of fire. This 
calls to my mind an experience which I had 
some fifteen years ago while watching a heavy 
electrical storm. I observed what appeared to 
be a ball of fire between two and three feet in 
diameter rolling along the street. It was also 
accompanied by several others of smaller size, 
This appearance occurred just after a very 
heavy electrical discharge to a telephone pole 
some few squares away. The discharge along 
the telephone wire heated the wire to red heat. 
The wire broke on account of this heating and 
a section of some considerable length was 
hurled along the street with a whirling motion. 
The rapidity of the rolling motion gave the 
appearance of a ball, as it also gave a forward 
motion to the ball of fire, Subsequent investi- 
gation revealed the two ends of the wire dan- 
gling from adjacent poles with a considerable 
length of the wire missing. I beg to suggest 
that the rapid heating of metal particles in 
some manner similar to this may be the cause 
of many of the so-called balls of lightning. 

Lours M. Ports 

BALTIMorE, Mp., 

January 10, 1910 


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ELM BUD CALENDAR. 


To the Editor of the Transcript: 
One can gain a very good idea of the 


advance of the season, ‘that -is to say, 


whether. the season is early jor late, by 
following the development of some tree or 
plant.and recording the dates for. successive 
years at which the tree passes the various 
stages in its growth» Such a series of ob- 
servations. has-been made by the’ writer 
upon. an elm tree by Jamaica Pond, for a 
period covering eight years, 


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By examining this record we gee that this 
season. started,.on March 24, five. days 
earlier than the average, On April 2 it. was 
thirteen days early. On April 9 it was ten 
Gays early, It then went to thirteen days 
early on April 20, and at the time of going 
to print it is twelve days early. This rea- 
ord seems to explain the disasters to fruit 
in the West, where the buds prematurely 
advanced have been caught by the frost. 

Ropert H, RicHarps 

Jamaica Plain, April. 26, 


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HARVARD UNIVERSITY: HARVARD FOREST, PETERSHAM, MASS., 2,000 ACRES 


Prov Wee aa bne1- Tee 
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Memorandae 


Bag should not exceed the following dimen— 
sions,= 5 inches in thickness. 
Goggles. 
Headgear should be cloth cap or soft felt 
hate Stiff hat objectionable. 
-A thick overcoat or a thin overcoat with | 
cardigan or sweater. | 
| 


tinerary. 


1910 

FrieJune 10the Assemble at #225 at 9e15 AeMe ~ | 
Start at 9.30 going via Lexington, Con= 
cord,Acton & Littieton to Groton for 
lunches (38 me) PeMe via Townsend, Ash- 
by, to the Ark at Jaffrey. (35 me) 

Satellith. Via Dublin to Walpole Inn for 
lunche (37 me) In PeMe vie Claremont 
to Woodstock. (45 me) 

Sune 12the At Woodstock. 

Monel3the To Dartmouth College (14 m.) Early 
lunch, & via Wells River to Franconia, Tune LF, 19106 
{Peoket+s) (53 me) 

Tucseil4the Visit Profile House, Notch, &ce 

Weds 15the Via Bretton Woods, Crawford Notch, 


Pinkham Notch, to Mtelifadison House the Club, togother 
Gorham,— lunching en route. (75 re} F ’ 

Thurse 16the AeMe to Paris Hill for lunch. gapolone bougnt | 
(50 me) PeMe to Poland Spring.(e2m) 7” 

Fri.el7the To The Rockingham, Portsmouth, or oars, but exclusive 


Sawyer House, Rye Beache Munch en 
route. (90 to 100 me) 


A for out of tho Club 
Satel8the Via Phillips Academy, Exeter, to 


Bald Pate Inn, Georgetown, for lunch. $270 «D7 
(30 me) Pelle to Boston. (30 me or 
more.) eOl | 
eOk 
wh 
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Es - 5 ~ . re iI ay S$ ie ie i 
MHARA Sand GHAGk tO Ge Ge Ge, DLA South Blidge | 


ho 

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June 27, LOL. 


r % 1 p fk: a a hen ie " * a) re ve 
nety of ive menubers of the ¢ 


Lub, togot 


fee 
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2 

5 


VarGht Sea Dkk 


FApoOLene HOULKht 


TS» ra Ags, {) ri GArgd, OUD QXGLUBLVO 
44 ‘ i nte 4 m i 4 ni ite Peas 
dinner at Bad Pate Irn ton waa yvatd for out of the Club 
| 
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hire O-f (o yy 8 Creer | 
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Cites lurtuimatr | 
wee phate" an dv Anve Look ws 
aww oo ies Pre, dies thes aa Si | 
plored, or hp pital KUL, Wo tare 
OW plow i nn Uw to ULA- eee (ad ant | 
Wel. Sie Ct bee aang Line : 
Core ton Urer Cali —2t— 

, ther Repervukenme Raed— 


load 


ned 


OL 


frighte at an 
Athletic parkg Bur- 


; 
a: 


bile 
Thursday 
The pole of the Wogan 


auvorm near 


lington, 


nd 


ran away. 

the latter. The driver was pifched 
‘ i 

over a high fence into a fiel@ but 

not injured. 

The annua] regatta of the Lake 

{Champlain Yacht club, 


‘will be held August 2, when there 
| will be races for all classes of mo- 
| p's 5 an : 
tor and sail boats. There will be 


| valuable first and second prizes for 
| all events, aggregating a cost of 
$2000. The first prize for the grand 


| S. o . 
; motor boat free-for-all race will be | 


Aug- 


a $750 cup. The entries close 


ey Toy C 
to manufae- 


is 


rvyation, 


ious 
man about to shed and 
fired at him w service revolver 
through the kitchen window. He 


missed the mark, buy was not troub- 
led furthér. He discovered at day- 
light that the burglar was after 


coal and had already carried away | 


a smal] quantity. 


The Masons of Brattleboro are 
elated over the fact that the entire 
000 issue of preferred stock in 


the Masonic Building association 
has been disposed of among the 
members of the various branches 


in Brattl 
last of the issue of stoc 
Thursday aft 


25,000 avail: 


Masonic order 
ro, The 
was disposed 


This 


im 


immediate 


ulder Attracts Attention. 
that 
mountain 


er has recent- 


side 


sitors to Smi 


pital. 


yt 


City 


hospit 


Lom 


rivate 

he became 
Superinten 
hospital for 


Holyoke 


ce City 
Lately he 


has 


| 
| . Pe 
| struck a telephone pole, snapping | 


Burlington, | 


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NATURE CLUES MEET 
. ae. f - £uf J 
: 7 
Botafists tom Four States 

Three Session z \ tl- 
we Plants ound 
of HKot Yermon 

Bird Clul I 


creased—Winter Meeting at Bur- 
lingten. 
About 


4) 
botanists of 


days’ 


note 


annual meeting of the 
Botanical club 
Bird club at Woodstock 
this w The Botanical club has | 
seldom had a gathering when more 
rare plants were seen and the fact 
that there were more especial feat- | 
ures than usual to the program made | 
the meeting an esptcially enjoyable | 


three 
Vermont 


Vermont 


and t 


one. 

The party gatherd at Quechee | 
Gulf on Monday afternoon and ex- | 
plored the almost perpendicular | 
cliffs, which tower nearly 200 feet | 
|above the river, as well as the river | 
|bed itself. Among the plants of | 
especial interest seen here were | 


ithe northe 


| fruits 


and the smooth 


owing 


found 


A numb 


plants of the lower « 


— 


bs Entertained at Lunch. 
ing the mem- 


of 


grown to perfe 

jrare lilies and many | 
jflowers are in profusion 
cally all the interesting 

ferns and wild flowers are to be 
found in spots made as much as 


at 


\the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 


possible like their natural _environ- 
ment. The Billings carry-all took 
the party to the top of Mount Tom, 
where an excellent view of the sur- 
rounding country was had, An elab- 
orate lunch, served on the piazza at 


in order. The after 
noon was passed at HEschqua 
in Hartland, where the party 
in automobiles. The principal p 


Lee, was next 


[=] 
is i=] 


went 
lants 
f 


ly rare in 


found e 


ing 


xT 


of 


ermon 


Je 


and 
Burlins 
will be | 


rmont Botanical 


meet jointly 


ton in January when the 


addresses and papers. 


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1860 —- July 16 —— 1910. 


On July 16,1860 the members of this Club 
presented themselves at No. 16 University 
Hall at 8 o'clock to apply for admission to 
the Class of 1864, 


On July 16, 1910 the members of this Club 
will present themselves at the Union Club at 


! 
one o'clock to hold their 488th. meeting. | 


Absentees will please notify G.G@.Crocker. | 


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Interesting Exhibition at East Milton 
With Reptiles Caught in the Blue 
Hills. 

A crowd of about 150 people gath- 
ered in East Milton Tuesday night to 
watch B. Grover, a herpetologist from 
Hyde Park, extract the poison from 
the fangs of two reptiles recently cap- 
tured in the Blue Hills. One was a 
young rattlesnake about two and one- 
half feet long, and the other a large 
copperhead, three and one-half feet in 
E sescaer They were captured by James 
Leary of Granite avenue and have 
been on exhibition in the window of 
J. J. Hammers’ drug store. 

Mr. Grover grasped each snake by 
the neck and induced it to strike into 
soft rubber stretched over a vessel, 
in which the poison was caught. He 
then put the poison in a vial. He said 
the rattlesnake was a young one, but 
The copperhead was larger than usual. 
The poison of the copperhead, ace 
cording to Mr. Grover, acts about 
five times as quick as that of the rat- 
tlesnake and a bite may cause death 
within six hours. 

In case of a bite the remedy is to 
cut away the flesh from the point pit- 
ten about a half inch deep and one 
inch long. This should be followed by 
the use of permanganate of potash 
and chloride of lime as local washes. 
He said there are 22 species of snakes 
in New England, but the rattlesnake 
and copperhead are the only two that 
are poisonous. Mr. Grover said that he 
has collected nearly every variety of 
snake found in Eastern Massachusetts. 


1st 


“SOUTH” OR “SOUND.” 


To THE EDITOR OF THE NATION: 

Str: Your correspondent’s letters on 
South or Sound in ‘‘Twelfth Night’’ call to 
my mind Wordsworth’s poem, “Michael,” 


published in 1800, though, of course, Words- | 


worth may have had Pope’s emendation 
of the First Folio directly under his hand. 
The words beginning at line forty-six are 
as follows: 

And in his shepherd’s calling he was prompt 

And watchful more than ordinary men. 

Hence had he learned the meaning of all winds, 
Of blasts of every tone; and oftentimes, 

When others heeded not, he heard the South 
Make subterraneous music, like the noise 

Of bagpipers on distant Highland hills. 

The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock 
Bethought him, and he to himself would say 
“The winds are now devising work for me’’! 


Gro. G. KENNEDY 


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LL (A | Marriages. 


KENNEDY—BALDWIN. 
Zz Announcement is made of the mar- 
7 


riage in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 
Sept. 29th of Sinclair Kennedy of Mil- 
ton and Miss Rae Baldwin of New 
York city. 
Mr. Kennedy is the son of Dr. and 
‘| Mrs, Geo. G. Kennedy of Blue Hill, 
tt a graduate of Harvard, class of ’97, 
and of the Harvard Law school of 


1906. He has travelled extensively 
since leaving college and is a Fellow 
of the Harvard Travellers’ club. 
Miss Baldwin is a graduate of the 
Ar University of Chicago and for the 


past three years has been instructor 
4 \in mathematics in the Normal College 
Lie A of the city of New York. 

— She has also been something of a 
traveller and in the summer of 1908, 
with a party of New York ladies, 
visited Labrador to observe Dr. Gren- 
fell’s work for the natives on the 
coast. Here she met Mr. Kennedy re- 
turning from an exploring trip in the 
interior, 

After visiting relatives in the 

Highlands of Scotlanid they have plan- 

ned a trip around the world, making 

considerable stay in Japan. On re- 

turning to this country they will re- 

" side in Milton on or near the Kenne- 
dy estate on Blue Hill avenue. 

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Fourth Rehearsal and Concert 


FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, at 2.30 o'clock 
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, at 8 o'clock 


PROGRAMME 


Schubert . . Andante con moto, from the “ Unfinished” Symphony 


In Memoriam Julia Ward Howe 


Brahms é ‘ ; : - Symphony No. 3, in F major, Op. go 
I. Allegro con brio. 
II. Andante. 
IIf. Poco allegretto. 
IV. Allegro, 
Beethoven . A Concerto in D major for Violin, Op. 61 


I. Allegro ma non troppo. 
II. Larghetto. 
III. Rondo. 


Strube ; : f : : : . Comedy Overture, ‘ Puck” 


SOLOIST 
Mr. ANTON WITEK 


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month each year, by the variable recur- 
rence of school terms, election dates, etc. 


If the German reformers agree among 
10-|-themsealvas ana it — 


| rest of the 
eo tte ; i Mitton, Mass., Nov. 3, 1910. thinking, all 
To THe Voters, or Mitton: russian. Ape 


manded that 
We, the undersigned, Democratic, Independent.and Republican voters of reform, ana 


ll over Ger- 


Milton, earnestly beg your careful attention to the following facts concerning ,,. teehee 
the candidates for Congress, to be voted for in our district on N ovember 8. peers - 


; } j va = Noss tone + which will 
The Democratic nominee, James M. Curley, has had long political service ae ree 


. which has been unbroken by any evidence of care for the publie welfare. Last peey 2 the 
} Me tech . . ‘ec ele oy o substan- 
January the Good’Government Association said of him: Absolutely discredited °° con 


as a public servant, his continued election has been a menace and a disgrace to 1 uncountea 


the city. An active leader of the Timilty-Curley combination of candidates ees 
for the Council, he, above all others, should be defeated.” ‘umulate for 


disposed of 


Opposing Mr. Curley is J. Mitchel Galvin, a man of spotless.public and mine 


private life. He served Boston efficiently for many years as City Clerk and two 47, 1995, 2093, 


years ago came within four contested votes of being elected to Congress from this oth a 
district, which had.always been a stronghold of the Democracy. net thirey- 

\ths irty; 

| The issue this year in our district is single and simple—between political ' Haha, 
‘ ay of De- 


decency and political indecency. To vote for Mr. Curley or not to vote at all lat oe wee 
is to refuse to aid civic cleanliness. Unless you wish to say for the next two years, isp 
= “T helped to elect Curley to Congress,” nothing should stand in the way onelection jay: Maren, 
day of your casting a vote for J. Mitchel Galvin. on Satur~ 


inding still 


SAMUEL GANNETT Rosert J. CLARK H. C. GALLAGHER ere 
Friurx RAackEMANN JOHN P. Hau Horace N. PLUMMER Cae 
I. Tucker. Burr Wo. B. TuurBer FREELAND D. LEsiiz ll that she 
W. Newton Hartow Puitie L. SALTONSTALL Joun F. Brown pees to 
i = % B e@ con- 
Henry E. SHELDON CuHarRLes E. Gurip Rosertr F, Herrick oes 
Wiuuram A. WILL HERBERT B. Tucker NaTHANIEL T. Kipper thomsen 
ANDREW H. Warp CHARLES S. RackEMANN Epwarp C. Perkins Sunday, as 
“ it leave an 
Horace B. Horne J. FRANK Popr RoGrr WOOT bce el 
CHARLES C. CopELAND ParKker B. Finip RopERick STEBBINS - Pas 
F. Exuiot Casort Gro. G. KENNEDY Artuur H. Tucker extra days 
| W. Dewnes RoBErts Ernest P. Lrpspy Epwarp M. Brewer iste 
Jesse B. BaxtER CHARLES S. Pierce Matcotm DonaLp Rear 
Jacosp A. TURNER CuHarues H. THAYER h Wednes- 
is has met 
y the cal- 
| Hovusn. 


Polls Open 6 a.m. 
Close at 4 p.m. 


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|'To THE EDITOR oF TH NATION: ! 
SIR: We have all been confused by the ; 
appearance of Christmas on a different | ( 
/week-day each year, by the coming of | « 
' Thanksgiving on a different day of the! 


§ vA athe be 
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deh wostvursurur CULTS CALULIDSIUL, 
and by the railways as an effective means 
of the intensive development of the coun- 
try they serve. J. R. WILson. 
Portland, Ore., October 29, 


CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 


| To THE EDITOR OF THE NATION: 


| Str: We have all been confused by the 


|appearance of Christmas on a different 
|week-day each year, by the coming of 


‘Thanksgiving on a different day of the! 


month each year, by the variable recur- 
rence of school terms, election dates, etc, 
If the German reformers agree among 
themselves and then bring the rest of the 
civilized world to their way of thinking, all 
these difficulties will vanish. t 
Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 
geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 
that body take action on such a reform, and 
the mathematicians are busy all over Ger- 
wr effecting the desired 
von Hesse-Wartegg, in 
he \ kszeitung, proposes to 
yY zero (0), which will 
ays 364 in number and 
a h the same day of the 
— é. salculators do substan- 
8, but dispose in vari- 
! additional uncounted 
with the leap years, 
‘onismus, suggests that 
‘wed to accumulate for 
nd then be disposed of 
ap-week.” She would 
motion with 1911, thus 
ars 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 
; the Sunday as Herr 
proposes, would give 
» and October thirty- 
other months thirty; 
April 14, as Easter ; 
urth Tuesday of De- 
' for the 29th of No-~ 
', April, July, and Oc- 
day; February, May, 
on Thursday; March, 
December on Satur-~ 


&, ier the standing stil] 


} Week every twenty- 

t occasion more con- 

ent arrangement. A 

iplishes all that she 

ad would promise to 

j culty, could be con- 

\pportion the months 

r ZF ff | Proposes, then begin 

2s in on Sunday, as 

f 28, ete.—but leave an 

’ pak December and Jan- 

x rt rs another between 

t y call the extra days 

eap Year’s Day, and 

} lately without num- 

of each quarter be- 

econd with Wednes- 
Friday. 

ly like this has met 

is possibly the cal- 


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tober 22. Glo 


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month each year, by the variable recur-_ 
rence of school terms, election dates, etc. | 
If the German reformers agree among 
‘n/ themselves and then ‘bring the rest of the 

TK) civilized world to their way of thinking, all 

| ‘he | these difficulties will vanish. 

icts; Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 

‘ome | geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 

from | that body take action on such a reform, and 

- two} the mathematicians are busy all over Ger- 

a ~ ? effecting the desired 

. : » «> ts C4 on Hesse-Wartegg, in 

, : DA? #4 fy 7. oA { «= f "i F ‘szeitung, proposes to 

/, a ; o¢ Z ‘ zero (0), which will 

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a : P ' ; ‘ ‘| : . the same day of the 
* oN . 4 V ulculators do substan- 


J a) ' , <3 , but dispose in vari- 
Ke tnd Sane ‘ additional uncounted 
f é with the leap years. 


=e : fe 7 ) /) {o “ mismus, suggests that 
oe i ar f f Ras {A ¢ elie “ ved to accumulate for 


J (d then be disposed of 
oo ‘P-week.” She would 
Ct 1otion with 1911, thus 

P | y A, oo rs 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

Poa a / , | fw A op AE . nee: F | the Sunday as Herr 
) ViiAae é \. é 2 / sroposes, would give 
i ’ 7s vs and October thirty- 
c f / ther months thirty ; 
vii ff pril 14, as Easter; 
uss 3 Ee ; (> irth Tuesday of De- 
<f Cf att for the 29th of No- 

/ if April, July, and Oc- 

f , wy é y wr ay; February, May, 
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‘. December on Satur-~ 


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f : é week every twenty- 
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fy # mt arrangement. A 
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h & y xX F proposes, then begin 
r f ot f et / i a ‘ , S in on Sunday, as 
i ; . - sf 8, ete.—but leave an 
‘a4 7 > Ne } December and Jan- 
J * tt | ) yr "S another between 
} Fmvory 7. sy ‘ call the extra days 
) ony te ‘ A ° lai ; € t/ ‘ap Year’s Day, and 
. t et Et KoA \ ¢ f «.. ¥ ) ately without num- 

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and by the railways as an effective means 

|of thé intensive development of the coun- 

try they serve. J. R. WILson. 
Portland, Ore., October 29, 


CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 


. |'To THE EDITOR OF THE NATION: 
| | SIR: We have all been confused by the 
/ appearance of Christmas on a different 
| week-day each year, by the coming of 
' Thanksgiving on a different day of the! 


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CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 


|To THE EDITOR oF THE NATION: 

Str: We have all been confused by the 
appearance of Christmas on a different 
anon each year, by the coming of 


' Thanksgiving on a different day of the 


month each year, by the variable recur- 7 
renee of school terms, election dates, ete. 
If the German reformers agree among 
themselves and then ‘bring the rest of the 
civilized world to their way of thinking, all 
these difficulties will vanish, : 
Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 
geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 
take action on such a reform, and 
naticians are busy all over Ger- 
1 plans for effecting the desired 
Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, in 
ische Volkszeitung, proposes to 
Year’s Day zero (0), which will 
tounted days 364 in number and 
year with the same day of the 
it of the calculators do substan- 
same thing, but dispose in vari- 
as of the additional uncounted 
appears with the leap years, 
man, in Monismus, suggests that 
iys be allowed to accumulate for 
at years, and then be disposed of 


¢ sunted “leap-week.” She would 

tA endar in motion with 1911, thus 

ar leap-years 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

f vould omit the Sunday as Herr 
Proven 


Wartegg proposes, would give 
pril, July, and October thirty- 
sach, the other months thirty ; 
Sunday, April 14, as Easter; 
for the fourth Tuesday of De- 
" anksgiving for the 29th of No- 
f r January, April, July, and Oc- 
on Monday; February, May, 
November on Thursday; March, 
nber, and December on Satur-~ 


tful whether the standing still 
j \dar for a week every twenty- 
- would not occasion more con- 
“A ' the present arrangement. A 
é . /ich accomplishes all that she 
“#\ or hers and would promise to 
less difficulty, could be con- 
‘ollows: Apportion the months 
Koopman proposes, then begin 
that comes in on Sunday, as 
1, 1922, 1928, ete.—but leave an 
\) ¥ between December and Jan- 
fi leap-years another between 
yy. We may call the extra days 
Jay and Leap Year’s Day, and 
hem adequately without num- 
‘st month of each quarter be- 
\day, the second with Wednes- 
third with Friday. 
lubstantially like this has met 
\ favor and is possibly the cal- 
uture, 
Roy THMPLE Housn. 


ermany, October 22, IGIlo 


ne 


month each year, by the variable recur- 

rence of school terms, election dates, ete. 

If the German reformers agree among 

| themselves and then ‘bring the rest of the 

rk civilized world to their way of thinking, all 
the| these difficulties will vanish. ’ 

ictS} Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 

‘ome | geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 

am take action on such a reform, and 

Px 3 T s Fa\ maticians are busy all over Ger- 

‘ XX ¢ f KU 7 of aan. of j a plans for effecting the desired 

i , tnd } ' Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, in 

, ische Volkszeitung, proposes to 

nS Year’s Day zero (0), which will 

p j - } , 7% LA CA tA } counted days 364 in number and 

d ; . ; ! year with the same day of the 

4 st of the calculators do substan- 

i j : “ F Pw dt of 7? — Same thing, but dispose in vari- 

' : : ms of the additional uncounted 

i / appears with the leap years. 

\ eee 4 ; as ne a : man, in Monismus, suggests that 

A, i ZEE 4 ee : v4 i 'yS be allowed to accumulate for 

> f it years, and then be disposed of 

on Pa san ff yunted “leap-week.” She would 

. ( ; CAS > g endar in motion with 1911, thus 

é er leap-years 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 

~~ / ; \ \S i f vould omit the Sunday as Herr 

i j ‘ a —' “t ‘Wartegg proposes, would give 

" . & pril, July, and October thirty- 

= f = (s aye 4 vach, the other months thirty; 

V lo \ \ MeV bet Sunday, April 14, as Easter; 

. for the fourth Tuesday of De- 

} x tym g ¢ 4“) é.. . anksgiving for the 29th of No-~ 

‘ j é A, 2x January, April, July, and Oc- 

’ f . ) é : ‘ on Monday; February, May; 

¢ “ fy 3 7 ’ » 4 TVS Ryy1,-¢ November on Thursday 3 March, 

) \ . ‘ é é . "“Oember, and December on Satur- 


’ oe 7G md =“, tful whether the standing still 
ene et he ae ad Oe CA 7 os idar for a week every twenty- 
hae j would not occasion more con- 
ff ' Y Li. qA) the present arrangement, A 
AS Le ra ’ > ‘ich accomplishes all that she 
\ Pd or hers and would promise to 
\ . j ck 4 | less difficulty, could be con- 
. \ od follows: Apportion the months 
Koopman proposes, then begin 
i P24 v ‘ that comes in on Sunday, as 
1, 1922, 1928, ete.—but leave an 
ae j - 'y between December and Jan- 
= Fe A ae r= if; t nw > eer 1 leap-years another between 
u ( , : z y. We may call the extra days 
. , oa, Jay and Leap Year’s Day, and 
“a Ye ‘Oo /@Q hem adequately without num- 
2 ‘st month of each quarter be- 
j ’ : aX. iday, the second with Wednes- 
nr F . Aa nw) [& third with Friday. 
’ F\_AK _ substantially like this has met 
“~, » f fi ., favor and is possibly the cal- 
if A ; . : an a) ‘uture. 
ix~/ 4 i ; 3 - We Roy TmMPuy Hovsn. 
jf é Wl } oA 7 d ‘ermany, October 22. 1G1© 
’ f Tue 


CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY, 


|To THE EDITOR oF THE NA‘TION: 
| SIR: We have all been confused by the ; 
| appearance of Christmas on a a te 
|week-day each year, by the coming of |: 


' Thanksgiving on a different day of the! 


in 

rk 
the 
iets 
ome 
from 

. two 
n and 


For. 


g rail- 
1onstra- 

in con- 
‘icultural 
che meth- 
best ap- 
announce- 

* the traffic 
inouncement 
ne season of 


nent is to en- 

through a con- 

land. wu 

Methods can be 

Systems of crop- 

¢ of various cul- 

conservation of 

+ Department, with 

Washington Agri- 

‘ganized this course 

e directly interested 
ts, 


ame railway two years 
train to be run in con- 
regon Agricultural Col- 
‘ked development in the 
amount of time given, in 
erritory covered, and in 
subjects presented, with a 
increase in the number of 
Agricultural College and 
-ations accompanying the 
onstrators and lecturers: 


2 


3 


Subjects to be discussed, ac- 
che conditions in each locality, 
ationed the following: Poultry, 
horticulture, more and better 

, chemistry of the soil, rotation 
conservation of moisture, general 
methods. 


nouncement by the other railway 
milar train showed the equipment 
ed by the companies: 


—<— 


month each year, by the variable recur= 
rence of school terms, election dates, ete. 
Te the German reformers agree among 
themselyes and then bring the rest of the 
civilized world to their way of thinking, all 
these difficulties wil] vanish. ’ 

Delegate Pachnike, in the Prussian Ab- 
geordnetenhaus, has already demanded that 
that body take action on Such a reform, and 
the mathematicians are busy all over Ger- 
many with plans for effecting the desired 
regularity. Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, in 
the Kélnische Volkszeitung, proposes to 
call New Year’s Day zero (0), which will 
leave the counted days 364 in number and 
begin each year with the same day of the 
week. Most of the calculators do substan- 
tially the same thing, but dispose in vari- 
ous fashions of the additional uncounted 
day which appears with the leap years, 
Elsa Koopman, in Monismus, suggests that 
the leap-days be allowed to accumulate for 
twenty-eight years, and then be disposed of 
in an uncounted “Jeap-week.” She would 
set her calendar in motion with 1911, thus 
throwing her leap-years 1939, 1967, 1995, 2023, 
ete. She would omit the Sunday as Herr 
von Hesse-Wartegg proposes, would give 
January, April, July, and October thirty- 
one days each, the other months thirty; 
would set Sunday, April 14, as Easter; 
Christmas for the fourth Tuesday of De- 
cember, Thanksgiving for the 29th of No- 
vember. Her January, April, July, and Oc- 
tober begin on Monday; February, May; 
August, and November on Thursday; March 
June, September, and December on Satur 
day. 

It is doubtful whether the standing still 
of the calendar for a week every twenty- 
eighth year would not occasion more con- 
fusion than the present arrangement. A 
calendar which accomplishes all that she 
can claim for hers and would promise to 
operate with less difficulty, could be con- 
structed as follows: Apportion the months 
as Fraulein Koopman proposes, then begin 
with a year that comes in on Sunday, as 
she does—i911, 1922, 1928, ete.—but leave an 
uncounted day between December and Jan- 
uary, and in leap-years another between 
June and July. We may call the extra days 
|New Year’s Day and Leap Year’s Day, and 


> 


~ 


ill consist of one stock car, one flat ‘4US locate them adequately without num- 


aree large baggage cars, and coaches | bers. 
in| gins with Sunday, 


he accommodation of the party 
3e. The equipment covers in a very 
ough manner dairying, poultry, horti- 
ure, forage crops, soils. The stock-car 


4 carry good and poor dairy cows for | with gene 


oonstration purposes, and first-class 
ef-type cows, and representative individ- 
.s of some of our leading breeds of 
1eep. 


To these demonstration trains a hearty 
reception has been given by the people in 
all sections of the two States, 


garded by the colleges as valuable oppor- 
tunities for agricultural college extension, 
and by the railways as an effective means 
of the intensive development of the coun- 
J. R, WILson. 


|try they serve. 
Portland, Ore., October 29, 


CALENDAR REFORM IN GERMANY. 


| TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATION: 

Str: We have all been confused by the 
|appearance of Christmas on a different 
| week-day each year, by the coming of 


They are | 
likely for some years to come to be re- 


| 


The first month of each quarter be- 
the second with Wednes- 
day, and the third with Friday. 

A division substantially like this has met 
ral favor and is Possibly the cal- 
endar of the future, 

Roy TamMPin Hovusn, 


Magdeburg, Germany, October 22, IGIO 


‘Thanksgiving on a different day of the! 


——~ 


——— _— 


FUNERAL OF ALMON D, HODGES — 


Service Held at St. James’s Episcopal 
Church in Roxbury 


Funeral services for Almon Danf 
orth 

Hodges, who died on Monday, in his sixty- 

eighth year, took place this afternoon at 


| St. James’s Episcopal Church, St. James 


street, Roxbury, and were condu 

the rector of the parish, Rev. aati a 
Dewart. The usual ritual was followed and 
the choir of the church sang several selec- 
tions. Afterward, the body was taken to 
the crematory at Forest Hills. 

Almon Danforth Hodges was born in 
Providence, R. I., on July 16, 1848, the son 
of Almon D, Hodges and Martha Comstock 
(Rodgers) Hodges. He fitted for college at 
the Roxbury Latin School and entered Har- 
yard in 1860, receiving his A, B. degree in 
64 and that of A. M. in ’67. 

On Juy 16, 1864, he was elected and com- 
missionedi a leutenant in’ the Forty-Second 
Massachusetts Volunteers, having previous- 
ly served as private In the Porty-Fourth 
Massachusetts. He was honorably dis- 
charged at the expiration of his term of 
service Nov, 11, 1864. On his return home 
he entered the ongineering department of 
me pets Scientific School, where at 

e yearly examination he 
pre place in his class. < higas Sits 

n August, 1865, he sailed for E 
and entered the Royal Saxon eine Dee 
emy at Freiberg, Saxony, where he ye: 
mained until July ., 1868, pursuing the 
study of mining engineering. After. fin- 
ishing the course at Freiberg he made a 
mining and metallurgical tour ‘through 
Middle Europe, and returned to the United 
States in October, 1868. He remained in 
Boston until Juae, 1860, and then travelled 
eet oe chief mining districts of Colo- 
‘ado, dah and Neva y 
Francisco in 1869. dis Sic ves 

He did important work as a consulting 
mining engineer in examining and opening 
up mines. On July 10, 1882, he married 
Bertha Louisa Bernard and after her death, 


| on May 14, 1884, he retired to a large ox- 


tent from the practise of his profession. 
10. GIO 


~ 


ee 


The urgency of some of his friends ahd 
former clients led him, however, while re- 
fusing general practice, to make two pro- 
fessional visits to Peru, each lasting about 
one year. Mr, Hodges published works 
consisting, besides one or two translations 
of small German textbooks, of various min- 
ing reports and numerous articles on min- 
ing and metallurgy. 

For many years past Mr. Hodges has 
spent most of his time in Boston. He 
leaves an only son, Frederick Hodges, now 
living ni California. Mr. Hodges belonged 
to the Union Club, the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Society, Rozbury City 
Guard Veteran Association, Veteran Asso- 
ciation of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts 
Regiment, Harvard Club of San Francisco, 
also, the Union and the Olympic and Loring 
clubs of that city; Department of Califor- 
nia, G. A. R.} the Loyal Legion and many 
Pa cline societies in tihs country and Eu- 
rope. 


Henry Johnson’s Poems 


‘The Seer, and Other Pdéems. By Henry J 
son.. Brunswick: BF. W- Chandler & Son. 


the local ‘celebration ‘of the Long- 


fellow centenary, Bowdoin Coll 


Heb. 27, 1907.” It is a production notable 


eee, 


in its way,—in “that it suggests” dimly 


and mystically far more than one would | 


7 


venture to read into the lines. They 


to be pondered as oracles of old, that 
were delivered. forall time and for every 
age. The vague expression , goes to 

directly 


winged words, To show its quality we 


bounds beyond ,the reach of 


quote a single stave: 


Tf Thou have joined jin us the hearing ear, « 
The seeing soul, the life that dwells apart, 
Thy universe beats with the beating heart, 


To thunders of the heavenly harmonies, 
For through all worlds Thy greatest poet 


are 


The shorter poems are, many of them, , 
in the form of the sonnet. This is man- | 


aged with ease and with a good de 
of satisfaction to the reader. The 


gree 
poet 


has had much practice in this kind of 
verse, for he has, previously given to the 
world an accurate, spirited version of 
the sonnets of Jose Heredia. External 
nature and human nature are sO closely 
blended in the poet's thought that he 


jeaves the full development to the 
and perhaps the reader pauses far a 


~end,: 
time | 


to contemplate the picture presented im 


the lines. Here is an example of 


the: | 


author's happy art and practised skill: 


I wander homeward with slow steps along 
The country road you knew years, years a&0; 
J hear the thrush you knew call far below 


For answer to his liquid ‘even-song. 


| The onks upon the hillsides still are strong 
| Ags those which you saw in defiance throw 
Their mighty arms straight out, scorning to 


grow , 
With earth-bent limbs, as if to stoop 


wrong, ‘ ' 
O sturdy kindred of the early time. 


were 


Whose rugged lives were passed beneath 


these skies 
In self-reliance of unseeing trust, 
Wheére’er you roam the heavenly fields 
lime, 
Accept the loving thoughts of ours that 
From these dear scenes where sleeps 
earthly dust. 


sub- 


rise 
your 


The reader of the sonnet, aS he goes 
| through the octave, may well ask, to 


whom are these lines addressed? 


But 


his query is answered as soon as he 
eomes to the sextet, and he immediately 4 


discovers for what purpose and 


with 


how great propriety are the oaks in- 


troduced into the picture. The co 
sition, as a whole, is admirable, 


mpo- 
It is 


along this line that Professor Johnson 


succeeds best in his work. 


— 


= 
p 


| 


a “eH Par. 


Ts title poem, the Seer, was read at 


He 


LA 


is. : oe | 


FUNERAL OF ALMON D. HODGES 


Service Held at St. James’s Episcopal 
Church in Roxbury 


Funeral services for Almon Danfor 

Hodges, who died on Monday, in his ae 

| eighth year, took place this afternoon at 
St. James’s Episcopal Church, St. James 
street, Roxbury, and were conducted by 
the rector of the parish, Rev. Murray W 
Dewart. The usual ritual was followed and 
the choir of the church sang several selec- 
tions. Afterward, the body was taken to 
the crematory at Forest Hills. 

Almon Danforth Hodges was born in 
Providence, R. I.,.on July 16, 1843, the son 
of Almon D. Hodges and Martha Comstock 
(Rodgers) Hodges. He fitted for college at 
the Roxbury Latin School and entered Har- 
vard in 1860, receiving his A. B. degree in 
64 and that of A. M, in ’67. 

On Juy 16, 1864, he was elected and com- 
missioned a lieutenant in the Forty-Second 
Massachusetts Volunteers, having previous- 
ly served as private in the Forty-Fourth 
Massachusetts. He was honorably dis- 
charged-at the expiration of his term of 
service Nov. 11, 1864.. On his return home 
he entered the engineering department of 
the Lawrence Scientific School, where at 
the yearly examination he secured the 

first place in his class. 

In August, 1865, he sailed for Europe 
and entered the Royal Saxon Mining Aces ‘ 
emy at Freiberg, Saxony, where he ye- 
mained until July ., 1868, pursuing the 
study of mining engineering. After fin- 
ishing the course at Freiberg he made a 
mining and metallurgical ‘tour ‘through 
Middle Europe, and returned to the United 
States in October, 1868. He remained in 
Boston until June, 1869, and then travelled 
"ao eae a chief mining districts of Colo- 
rado, ah and Nevada, 

Francise» in 1860. ie sat 

He did important work as a consulting 
mining engineer in examining and opening 
up. mines. On July 10, 1882, he married 
Bertha Louisa Bernard and after her death 
on May 14, 1884, he retired to a large ex. 


tent from NED of his profession, 
IO.x GIO 


ie 


The urgency of some of his friends ahd 
former clients led him, however, while re- 
fusing general practice, to make two pro- 
fessional visits to Peru, each lasting about 
one year. .Mr. Hodges published works 
consisting, besides one or two translations 
of small German textbooks, of various min- 
ing reports and numerous articles on min- 
ing and metallurgy. 

For many years past Mr. Hodges has 
spent most of his time in Boston.’ He- 
leaves an only gon, Frederick Hodges, now 
living ni California. Mr. Hodges belonged 
to the Union Club, the New England His- 
toric Genealogical Society, Rozbury City 
Guard Veteran Association, Veteran Asso- 
ciation of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts 
Regiment, Harvard Club of San Prancisco, 
also, the Union and the Olympic and Loring 
clubs of that city; Department of Califor- 
nia, G. A. R.; the Loyal Legion and many 
seine societies in tihs country and Eu- 
rope. 


aged with ease and with a good degree 
The poet , 


this kind of | 
given to the 
spirited version of 
External 
and human nature are SO closely 
blended in the poet's thought that he 
jeaves the full development to the -end,: 


of satisfaction to the, reader. 
has had much practice in 
verse, for he has, previously 
world an accurate, 
the sonnets of Jose 
nature 


Heredia, 


and perhaps the reader pauses for 
to contemplate the picture presen 
the lines. Here’ is an example 


author’s happy art and practised’ skill: 


I wander homeward with slow steps along 
knew years, years af; 
knew call far below 


The country road you 
JT hear the thrush you € 
Tor answer to his liquid even-soneg. 


| The oaks upon the hillsides still are strong 


| Ag those which you saw in defiance throw 
scorning to 


Their mighty arms straight out, 


grow 
‘With earth-bent limbs, 
wrong. ; 
O sturdy kindred of the early time. 
Whose rugged lives 
these skies 
In self-reliance of unseeing trust, 
Wheére’er you roam 
lime, 
Accept the 
From these 
earthly dust. 


The 


through 


whom are these lines addressed? 


his query is answered as soon as he 
and he immediately 4 
purpose and with 
how great propriety are the oaks in- 
The compo- 


comes to the sextet, 
discovers for what 


troduced into the picture. 
sition, as a whole, is admirable. 


along this line: that Professor Johnson 


succeeds best in his work. 


as if to stoop were 
were passed peneath 


the heavenly fields 


loving thoughts of ours that rise 
dear scenes where sleeps your 


reader of the sonnet, as he goes 
the octave, may well ask, to 


ORR ae | ded | 
im tee fed re 


7 
| 


tANSCRIPT, SATURDA’ 


MINFIRVES 


! 


— 


SIGNOR BERTOLOTTO’S | 


ORIGINAL EXHIBITION 


OF THE 


EDUCATED 


WS ee = 


FLEAS 


Whose extraordinary performance has received the distinguished patronage 
of the KUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS. Now open at 


No. 503 WASHINGTON STREET, 


AMORY HALL BUILDING, 
Exhibited by SIGNOR BERTOLOTTO, the Inventor, 


These surprising little creatures consist of a Troupe of 100, who, after the 
most unwearied perseverance, havé been taught to go through a va- 
riety of feats truly wonderful, ‘of which the following is the 


PROGRAMME : 


THE BALL ROOM, in which two ladies and gentlemen danee a polka, The orchestra 
is composed of 15 musicians, playing on different instruments of proportionate size, Four 
havitig a game of whist. A little brunette cn a sofa is flirting with a fashionable beau, while 
her mama’s mind is engaged in the politics ofa newspaper. The saloon is lighted by three 
elegant chandeliers. The performers in this, as well as in all the following pieces, are 
Floas, dressed, harnessed and instructed according to their respective tasks, 


TWO MERRY-GO-ROUNDS, A Dutch windmill, are cach set in motion by a Flea, 
ANOTHER AS GARDENER, pushes a wheelbarrow full of flowers. Another dressed in 
frock, shawl and collar. draws a bucket of water from a well. Tivo Fleas decide an Affair 
of Honor, swordin hand ; the arms are ofstecl, with golden guards, 

DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, riding on well-caparisoned Floag 

THE AMERICAN STEAMER, carried by a Flea. 

THE WILD FLEA, chained by a 400¢link chain, by the ankle, showing the difference 


A STREET CAR, drawn by a single Flea, and twelve hundred times the weight of the 
ea, 


MADEMOISELLE LE NORMAND, or the Sybil, will tell the visitor's fortune, a most 
Weird-looking old Flea. Anda va riety of other arlistes-too long to enumerate. The beauty 
of the workmanship of the objects accessory to the Exhibition have excited the admiration 
of every beholder, 


ee : 4 
CE OF WALES IN INDIA, on his highly caparisone 
wiophete ance a Flea, six hundred times its own weight, 


pen from 10 AM. to 9 P.M. % Admission 25 Cents, 


Hew York Printorium, 99 Ann Stzeet, M, ¥./ 


Fi 


tANSCRIPT, SATURDA’ 


JUERIES 


“Wanny Gray’? may be interested to’ know 
that it was written by’ Mrs. Russell Kava- 


naugh, Gn / M. L. BL 
Ghul ; 

8916. While I cannot give the author of 
these lines, I-.sénd the entire stanza; it 
may make it easier to locate the poem. 
As life: runs on, the road grows strange 
With faces new, and near the end i 
The’ milestones into headstones change, 
"Neath every one a friend. 

M. L. B. 


of every beholder. zi 


THE PRINCE OF WALES IN INDIA, on his highly caparisoned 
Elephant, drawy by # Flea, six hundred times its own weight. 


pen from 10 A.’M. to 9 P.M. & Admission 25 Cents, 


Hew York Printorium, 99 Ann Sizeet, M, ¥./ 


155 


Boston Gheatre. 


LESSEE AND MANAGER oo. +. 


LAST WEEK BUT ONE 


— or — 


GROVER’S Ss 


German a Opera! 


LEONARD GROVER.«-- « -cececeereseeeereteeeer ces DIRECTOR 


Also of Grover’s sie a Washington, D. C., and the new Chestnut Stree 
Theatre, Philade Iphia 


CARL ANSCHUTZ....ceeceseeesseees ceeeeetenere CONDUCTOR 


SEE 


TETis 917 TEI, 


Govunop’s grand Opera, in 5 acts, 


FAUST! 


HENRY GC, JARRETT. 


Faust.. -oece cece eseeencees M. Franz Himmer 
Mephistopheles..... M. Joseph Hermanns 
Marguerite......-+-- M’lle Marie Frederici 
Siebel.....--+.--++- Mad. Bertha Johannsen 
Valentin .-..-....-. M. Heinrich Steinecke 
WAgMEL..-. eee ee eee eee eee M. Anton Graif 
Marta....-++-+. Mad. Margaret Zimmerman 


IN THE FOURTH AOT, 


GRAND, FANFARE MILITAIRE 
With the Entire GRAND CHORUS anp OROHESTRA, 
and a FULL MILITARY BAND. 


J. H. & F. oF. Farwell Printing Offic: Le Washington St., Boston. 


“Bosta on Theatre, te 


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LESSEE AND MANAGER - - - HENRY C. JARRETT. 


SECOND WEEK 


GROVER’S 
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Also of Grover’s Theatre, Washington, D. C., and the new Chestnut Street 
Theatre, Philadelphia. 


CARL yclalcng fecae ens Po Pgiae ee alecasifen «CONDUCTOR 


a 


TECIS SO aes eee, 


Grand Opera, in 3 acts, by Beethoven, 


Leonore, under the name of Fidelio, 
Mad. Johannsen 


BOGCO.. a bsbees se sa2 M. Joseph Hermanns 
Florestan. ..---+-+++-+++:: M. Franz Himmer 
Don Pizarro...---- M. Heinriche Steinecke 
Miarcelline...---+--+++ W’lle Pauline Canissa 
Jacquino,..-.-+-- M. Theodore Habelmann | 
Don Fernando ..-----+--++: M. Anton Graif 


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Tur Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, 
js to have new quarters for its library. The 
structure will be a two-story addition to the 
present building and will extend to the west, 
taking the place of the old library wing, and 
covering part of the site recently occupied by 
the Asa Gray House, which was removed 
some weeks ago. The addition will be of 
similar construction to the Kidder wing. 
The library, which will be placed in the new 
pbuilding, is devoted to the classification of 
flowering plants and ferns. It contains more 
than 20,000 volumes and pamphlets. The gift 
which makes possible the erection of the new 
building amounts to $25,000; it comes from 


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REFORMED CALENDAR 

A CALENDAR project which ignores the im- 
mutable character of the week has slight 
chances of being adopted because the week 
is fixed by religious observance in all christian 
nations. The calendar here proposed is based 
on the week as a fundamental unit. It is 
, closely similar to the calendar recently pro- 
t 7 posed by Dr. C. G. Hopkins, but differs in 


each four weeks in length, instead of Dr. 
,, Hopkins’s twelve months divided into quarters 
of three months, each quarter containing two 
four-week months and one five-week month. 
Dr, Hopkins’s reason for retaining twelve 
months is that the quarters of the year may 


year as a unit of time is incomparably less 
than the value of the month. It is highly 
desirable to have all the months the same 
a length for the reason that salaries, wages, 
‘rent, board and many other ordinary affairs 
are counted in months. The advantage to be 
gained by haying months of uniform length is 
one of the most marked advantages to be 


This is the 
month in which the summer solstice occurs in 
the northern hemisphere and the winter sol- 
stice in the southern hemisphere, hence it 
may properly be called “ Sol”—the month of 
the solstice. 

In the new calendar the quarters are easily 
found, as each consists of thirteen weeks. 
The four quarters would end on the following 
dates: first quarter, April 7; second quarter, 
Sol 14; third’ quarter, September 21; fourth 
quarter, December 28; and these dates would 
all be Sunday in the new calendar. The 
present project therefore contains all the ad- 
vantages of Dr. Hopkins’s project, and the 
additional advantage of having all the months 
the same length, as well as multiples of the 
week. 

Other advantages of the new calendar are: 
the year always begins on Monday; every 
month begins on Monday; the same day of 
the year always oecurs on the same day of 


SCLENCE 


One of the most interesting of sctnue} 
lectures was delivered at the Polyclinique « 


No. 4360, May 20, 1911 


—_—X——S———_—_—. 
Henri de Rothschild at the end of March 


by Prof. 8. Pozzi, and has just been printed 
at length in the Revue Scientifique. It 
described a visit lately paid by the lecturer 
to the Instituto Serumtherapico of Butantan, 
near to Sao Paulo in Brazil, where the cure 
of snake-bites by a serum taken from horses 
and asses made immune by injections of 
snake poison is practised. One of the un- 
expected effects noticed was that the horse 
towards the end of the treatment became 
much heavier in weight, but lost this 
increase when the daily dose of attenuated 


LN. S, Von, XXXIII. No. 857 


the week; the same is true of the days of the 
month. Thus, the first, eighth, fifteenth and 
twenty-second of every month would fall on 
Monday; the seventh, fourteenth, twenty-first 
and twenty-eighth of every month would fall 
on Sunday. 

If desired Sunday may as well be taken as 
the initial day of the week, month and year. 

An additional advantage is that a calendar 
for one year is good for all future time, as 
the years are all alike in all respects except 
that every fifth year has an extra week added 
to December, with exceptions noted below. 

The details of the project are as follows: 

Common years consist of thirteen months 
of four weeks each, namely, January, Febru- 
ary, March, April, May, June, Sol (the month 
of the solstice), July, August, September, 
October, November and December; 

Long years differ from common years in 
haying an extra week added to December; 

Years divisible by five are long years, with 
the exceptions noted below: 

The extra week is omitted from years 
divisible by 50. It is also omitted in the year 
*25 following centennial years divisible by 400, 
and in the year ’75 following centennial years 
divisible by 25,000. This makes a calendar 
good for more than 800,000 years. 

In order to cause less confusion, this eal- 
endar should be adopted in a year that begins 
on Monday. In the near future these years 
are 1912, 1917 and 1923. 

In order to secure the adoption of a re- 
formed calendar, we must secure the appoint- 
ment of an international commission with 
representatives from all civilized nations. It 
seems to me that our present duty is to begin 
a serious attempt to secure the appointment 
of such a commission. Can-we not form an 
organization for this purpose? 

' W. J. SpmumMan 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 


QUOTATIONS 


THE SCIENCE MUSEUM AND THE NATURAL 
HISTORY MUSEUM 


Dvurine the past few weeks we have printed 
letters from several distinguished correspon- 


One of the most interesting of scientific 2 
lectures was delivered at the Polyclinique - 


No. 4360, May 20, 1911 


Henri de Rothschild at the end of March 


| Professor Cyrus Guernsey Pringle 


-s by Prof. 8. Pozzi, and has just been printed 
Was Curator of Herbarium at the at length in the Revue Scientifique. It 
University of Vermont pahpiteare described a visit lately paid by the lecturer 
Silat liripes dae tae ae University to the Instituto Serumtherapico of Butantan, 

AP ee var an dpone £ the best-known near to Sao Paulo in Brazil, where the cure 

o aera era eh Sin tne Selnagent of snake-bites by a serum taken from horses 


terday at Burlington, Vt. He’ ‘ie 
seventy-three years old. On his las 
search for spring blossoins he caught a 


and asses made immune by injections of 
snake poison is practised. One of the un- 


expected effects noticed was that the horse 

severe cold, which developed into pneu- towards the end of the treatment became 
monia and the end came bn he rate much heavier in weight, but lost this iH 
Seine erat eet ita: eG he increase when the daily dose of attenuated 
Ppihey ty ae and most complete virus was stopped. 
in America, Prof. Pozzi described in the course of his 

Professor Pringle was one of Abed lecture a battle that he there witnessed 
world’s most famous ed isaaiana ae 8S between a huge harmless snake, Rachidelus | 
{eal research. et in arden that brasili, and an extremely venomous one, 
nie fle A aH ities the farm of his Lachesis lanceolatus, which he poetically 
perents, he succeeded by assiduous study compares to the combat between Ormuzd 
in reaching great heights in his chosen and Ahriman. Although Rachidelus was 
field, 9 y i pas bitten more than once in the course of the 

Born in Charlotte, Vt. May 6, 1888, fight, it seemed to have no effeet upon him ; 
Mr, Pringle from his phe oh guntaee and when he had paralyzed his poisonous 
possessed a passion for p pe = pueden adversary, he proceeded calmly first to 
mig aa ae Sentomprated 3 eek ui dislocate his cervical vertebre, and then to 
sy ok ey the University of Vermont, | swallow him head first. 


t he devoted his spare time to study. 
ae eeGavie an authority on. the flora of 
New England and Canada, and while a| 
young man he was commissioned by Dr. 
Asa Gray of Harvard University to look | 
up certain plants in the White Moun- 
tains and the St. Lawrence Valley. La-~- 
ter, as collector of the American Mu- 
seum of Natural History of New York, 
he made collections from Arizona to the 
State of Washington. His’ reputation 
made, and styled “the prince of collec- 
tors” by Professor Gray, he was sent by 
Harvard University in 1884 to investl- 
gate the flora of Mexico. The’ follow- 
ing year he was made botanical collec- 
tor. Year after year he made the trip 
. and brought ent each time from 10,000 | 

specimens, vant) 

byt ace nears Mexican plants not only | 
enrich the herbaria of Harvard PRAY eRS | 
sity and the University of Vermont, but, 

sets have been sent to the principal bo- 
tanical museums of the world. ‘In turn, 
American. universities have been ap 
riched. by sets from eountries favore 


ya tl Lett ee Gu - | 


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SCIENCE N.S. Vou. XXXIIL. No. 857 | 


REFORMED CALENDAR the week; the same is true of the days of the 
A CALENDAR project which ignores the im- Month. Thus, the first, eighth, fifteenth and 


mutable character of the week has slight twenty-second of every month would fall on 
chances of being adopted because the week Monday; the seventh, fourteenth, twenty-first 
is fixed by religious observance in al] christian and twenty-eighth of every month would fall 
nations. The calendar here proposed is based on Sunday. 

on the week as a fundamental unit. It is 
closely similar to the calendar recently pro- 
posed by Dr. C. G. Hopkins, but differs in 
that it consists of a year of thirteen months, 
each four weeks in length, instead of Dr. 
Hopkins’s twelve months divided into quarters that every fifth year has an extra week added 
of three months, each quarter containing two to December, with exceptions noted below. 
four-week months and one five-week month. The details of the project are as follows: 
Dr. Hopkins’s reason for retaining twelve Common years consist of thirteen months 


2 
<r, 


If desired Sunday may as well be taken as 
the initial day of the week, month and year. | 
An additional advantage is that a calendar 
for one year is good for all future time, as 
the years are all alike in all respects except 


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FIELD DAY 
NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 


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At the invitation of Prof. J. F. Collins there will be a 


Field Day in Rhode Island on May 30th, 1911. Members will take | 
the Colonial Express av 8:00 A. M. (Back Bay, 8:04 A. M.) reaching 
Providence at 8:59. 
plan is to divide the party into squads of two, each 
a definite region to explore. Members will take 
pend the day afield. At gix o'clock the party will 
el Newman, 28 Aborn Street, Providence, for dinner 
te) There will be an opportunity for comparing 
express for Boston. 


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fore taking the 7:50 P. M. 


Great interest was shown in this invitation at the May 
meeting of the Club, and’ sixteen members at once volunteered to 
go on the Will they and all others who can go please 
notify the Chairman of the Committee before May 22nd, so that de- 
tailed plans may be arranged? If any cannot decide till the last 
and provis 


excursion. 


minute, please say 80, ion will be made for such late 


he pressed plants 


comers. 
The primary object of this Field Day is to puild up the 
@lub Herbarium, in which rode Island plants are very poorly repre- 
sented. t is extremely desirable to assemble a large party in | 
order to cover as much territory as possible, and the Committee is- 
sues this call for volunteers, who will be willing to devote one 
day to collecting for the Club Herbarium. An opportunity is thus | 
offered to all, materially to assist the Club. | 
The work is not difficult. All that is necessary is to | 
collect a few specimens of everything, including particularly the 
commonest plants, and to press them, recording notes of habitat | 
and environment. Tt is not necessary even to determine the plants 
collected. It is only required to collect and press them. 1 
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Labels will be furnished later, and t 


to the curators of the Phenogamic and Cryptogamic 


ean be turned over 
Herbaria. 


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Boston. 


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M, L. Fernald. ) 
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POLLUTION AND THE NEPONSET 


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To the Editor of the Transcript: 

Tt is proposed that $150,000 of public 
money be now spent to deepen and straight- 
en the channel of the Neponset River above 
Hyde Park. Taxpayers will have to pay 
the money. Before this $150,000 is raised 
and spent (and as IL believe, wasted), I de- 
sireéto go on record in the matter. Hav- 
ing lived close to this river (near Paul's 
Bridge) for twenty-five years, and having 
crossed the stream 4 good deal more than 
15,000 times, I know something of it. n 

In saying, as I now do, that I believe 
the proposed expenditure would be a mis- 
taken and unwarrantable use of money, I 
wish, at the same time, to say that I think 
the condition of the river is a disgrace to a 
self-respecting community, and also that I 
have only praise and gratitude for the spirit 
which has for some years been shown by 
Representative Woleott and others in their 
‘desire and efforts to abate this long-stand- 
ing nuisance. It is the present plan which 
I think wrong. 

There is no mystery about the Nepon- 
set River, nor is there anything connected 
with it (as God made it) which is different 
from hundreds. of other streams in the 
Commonwealth. There is nothing in the 
situation which now calls for or justifies an 
expenditure of $150,000 (or any part of it) in 
order to deepen and straighten the channel 
of this stream above Hyde Park. 

Let us look at a few simple facts. From 
Canton to Hyde Park this river runs in a 
winding bed, through fiat, marshy mead- 
ows which are naturally like thousands and 
thousands of acres of other marshy mead- 
ows in the State. 

The watershed is extensive and every 
spring an enormous flow, of water is sud- 
‘denly run into this bottom. 

Wrom Hyde Park to the sea level the 
/ channel of the river is narrow with high 
lands on each side—and several dams used 
for power purposes. In this part of the 
river the present natural channel is wholly 
inadequate to carry off the spring flood. 
Any intelligent person can figure out and 
demonstrate this fact. I have annually, 
for the past twenty-five years, seen these 
meadows above Hyde Park flooded, over 
their entire area, from two:to six feet in 
depth. It is a regular annual occurrence. 
It has gone on in substantially the same 
way (and for the same reason) ever. since 
the river was formed, It is precisely simi- 
jar to the annual flooding of thousands of 
other acres in the State, and it will con- 
tinue until the channel of the river from 
Hyde Park to sea Jevel is very much en- 
Yarged, probably at least doubled, in ca- 
pacity, and one or more dams removed. 
This enlargement and removal of dams I 
do not understand is now proposed at all, 
except for taking some flash-boards off the 
top of the upper dam and taking the top 
off’ a ledge in the river bed shortly below 
Paul’s Bridge. It would obviously be a 
very expensive matter. 

Until this is done, however, it Is absolute- 
ly certain that the meadows will continue 
to be flooded each year, and, as long as the 
water is full of sewage and filth such 
wastes will be annually spread, by the over- 
flow, over the entire meadow area. 

It is now (and under such conditions) 
proposed to spend $150,000 to deepen and 
straighten the channel of the river through 
the meadows above Hyde Park, and it is 
said that if this is not enough, at least it 
will) make ‘a good beginning.” 


(Let us ask ourselves a few questions: 

1. As lonz ag the river is practically a 
big open sewer does it make $150,000 worth 
of difference to anybody whether it is 
straight or winding? . 

2. If the water were clean would not 
everybody agree that its meandering was 
pretty and harmless? 

8. If the river is to annually overflow 
its banks does it make any difference 
whether those banks are straight lines or 
curves? 

4. The meadows being nearly all owned 
by the State, and the scheme not being a 
meadow reclamation scheme, is it going 
to benefit any land at all? (It certainly 
wwon’t benefit mine.) 

5. If the scheme were one to drain and 
reclaim these meadows, why should the 
towns in the area be called upon to pay 
for reclaiming State lands? 

6. Is the Staté going to establish a prece- 
dent, following which it will appropriate 
hundreds of thousands of more dollars to 
deepen and straighten all the other wind- 
ing streams in the State which run through 
marshy meadows? 

‘Now, as I have said, this river, except 
for its pollution, {s just like hundreds of 
other streams in the State. It has been 
deliberately and openly and shamefully 
polluted until it has tbecome an offensive 
disgrace. It is still so polluted day after 
day. This pollution (which is perfectly 
obyious to sight and smell) is by indi- 
viduals, firms, corporations and even by 
towns, and is clearly unlawful. It is the 
plain duty (and within the clear power) 
of ‘the State board of health and the At- 
torney General to stop it. If the river 
were not polluted everybody would enjoy 
and admire it and nobody would think of 
spending a dollar on it, 

The proposed expenditure of $150,000 
will not lessen the pollution at all but 
will add $75,000 to the State debt and 
will impose an additional $75,000 tax 
purden on the residents in the Valley. 
All (as I say), without gain or advan- 
bat except to engineers and contrac- 
ord. 

It is in line with the tendency of the 
times, Something is the matter! What 
shall we do about it? Oh, go to some 
State Board or Commission and get an 
elaborate report from their engineer and 
then do nothing until the Legislature 
gives you a big appropriation! 

Why not stop the unlawful pollution, 
without any expense to anybody (except 
the lawbreakers) and then see whether 
anybody thinks that the expenditure of 
$150,000 (or any part of it) is called 
for? It can be spent then just as well 
as now if it then seems wise. Why not 
take the absolutely necessary step first? 

I am aware that the engineer is ot 
opinion that there is so muc& filth in the 
river bed that even if the water from 
now on. were clean it,would not scour 
out the filth. Is it better judgment to 
bet $150,000 against nothing that this 
engineer is right, or try clean water for 
a year or two and see? 


FELIX RACKEMANN 
June 12. 904 


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THE NEPONSET AND THE MYSTIC. - te, Gan pack 
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Miss Brooks Compares the Conditions \Y 
in the Two Rivers. ‘ 


To the Editor of the Milton Record, Ss 
‘| I have read with much interest Mr. , / 


‘| Rackemann’s letter and Mr. Wolcott’s 
:|reply concerning the cleaning of the A EA ec 
-| Neponset River. 
»| I wish to say that I lived for 40+years fC_ol_ Aao— 
| near the Lower Mystic Pond, into which ‘ , ee pe 
1| the Woburn tanneries emptied, and 
the smell was quite as bad as the ore era 
smell from the Neponset. ) 
The refuse was carried off in a sewer 


(going through our land near the pond) || 
and in a very short time the pond and 


river were clean, but the Mystic River i ea. ‘4 
is a tidal one, and has not been dammed Ga te oie 


till a year ago, as it could clean itself. 
Now the Neponset, as Mr. Rackemann ‘ 

admits, has-dams and has had them R__ é 

for years) below Hyde Park, and as IN 

they have not been removed, even in 


y 
the flood times of the year, the solid SLR_- Ae Ln eet 


matter could not be carried down to ‘ 

the ‘sea, (as in the case of the Mystic) 

and has all settled. é 7 
It seems to me, therefore, that some- | 1 

thing more than building a sewer must Nee PPLE Pe 


be done to the Neponset, unless all | ( 


the dams are taken down and not al-|! me Joes 
lowed to be put back. ¢ 
The Mystic is as winding as the Ne- 4 ‘ ; 
ponset, though much shorter. tec 
Miss Fanny Brooks. / Co 
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Monday, June 19, 1911. ‘ 


Brush Hill Road, Milton. A/tCTC4e_— ot L C 


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of a too viv agination when F AANA Lanes 

that a,‘ “i ie 

cee yer eke ae RECENT GIFTS TQ/ THE GRAY HERBARIUM 


[Nearly a generation ago the educated 
fleas were exhibited on Washington stre 
Somewhere near West street. ‘The 
-in charge of an old man who train 


Mr. George Robert White, of Boston, has subscribed 
the sum necessary to rebuild and considerably enlarge the 

“himself and fed them on rm, W laboratories connected with the Gray Herbarium. The 

looked bloodless and had t : I , . 

having been nipped ali over. The admission | new structure will be a two-storied thoroughly fireproof 

interes ter of a dollar, and not the least wing, sixty feet long and thirty broad, extending from 


interesting part of the exhibition was the | § a 
accounts, true or false, which the exhibitor the central portion of the building toward the conserva- 


i ir 
gave of his travels, One sbory was that 


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when exhibiting his ttle pets before ons tories. The lower story will contain two laboratories for 
of the royal families of @ fl york in systematic and seographi 4 . s 
caped and could not be found. anleanes work: in systematic he d ge grap ic botany, while ey por 
he requested a princess who hea gre tion of the upper will be equipped for the herbarium of 
See if it was not upon her pers The ey ; 5 \ te i ift i 
= lady complied. with his reque: ie ‘e the New England Botanical Club. Mr. White’s gift in- 


flea which shé produced wag 
which was afterwards discovered. 
hibition of these fleas showed what inf 
patience can.do in tre y living + 


cludes $21,500 for construction and $10,000 for equip- 
ment. To secure the highest degree of safety for the 
collections, the cases and so far as possible the other 
furnishings will be of steel. | 
Through an anonymous gift of $25,000, announced 
some weeks ago, the Herbarium will also be provided 
with a library wing, to extend from the main building 
toward Garden Street and to cover a portion of the site 
formerly occupied by the Gray residence, recently re- ) 
moved. Plans for these two extensions, prepared by 
Mr. W. L. Mowll, have been approved by the Corporation 
and construction will begin as soon as practicable. 
Mr. Casimir de Candolle, of Geneva, has given to the 
—- Gray Herbarium a cast of a bust of his father, the dis- 
Harriet White, wife of the} ; tinguished Alphonse de Candolle, in remembrance of the 
. Golinteis aga’ tan ak Ae the etl esi’ constant friendship between his father and Asa Gray. 
John and Nancy White, of Weymouth, The bust is by the well known sculptor, Hugues Bovy. 
died in Boston, Aug. 17th, Mrs, Harris 
retained the traces of youthtul beauty — > 


to her 88d year. She was a woman of | | 


One flea took the part of Rebecca at the 
Well and drew up a little bucket from a 
miniature well; a pair of fleas. drew 
tiny coach, in which was sea: 

flea with a parasol, wh 
a footman completed the 


* Death of Harriet White. 


fine natural abilities and marked ener. BOTANICAL EXPEDITION TO NEWFOUNDLAND ~ 
= sy of character, and will be greatly ae 


missed by her circle of. relatives ; Fh Sete: ‘ ; , 
friends fs elder sister of ite See An expedition in the interest of the Gray Herbarium, 
; ms ts i fe a 


of great excellence of character, and under the direction of Professor Fernald, leayes Boston, 
personal attractions, was Susan White, June 30th. Professor Fernald will be accompanied 
wite of Christopher Webb, also of by Professor Karl M. Wiegand of Wellesley College 


Weymouth, who through the years of ‘dwi 4 ‘ 
F : ee a ‘ assrs. Ei . Bartram and Bayard Long of the | 
y his active life was devoted to the inter- philic aaiaeged coe carb 2 re 


ests of his native town and county. Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia, with Mr. Henry T. 
r M. | Darlington, 2 G.S., as general assistant. Headquarters 
will be at Grand Falls on the Exploits River, and the 

| explorations will be chiefly on the northeast coast of the 

_ island, thus supplementing the former explorations of 

Professors Fernald and Wiegand on the northwest coast. 


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Communications. 


DOES NOT LiKE PRESCRIPTION. 

Felix Rackemanr Answers Representa- 
tive Wolcott’s Letter on Neponset 
River Purification. 


To the Editor of The Milton Record: 


There has been forwarded to me in} 
the West a copy of Mr. Roger Wolcott’s | 


reply to my letter of June 12,. in the 
matter of the proposed expenditure of 
$150,000. on the Neponset River. 

Mr. Wolcott and I both want a clean 
river. We differ only as to method. 

He seems satis..ed to accept, in blind 
faith, a recommendation of the Board 
of Health, (or its Engineer) and sug- 


gests that we should either swallow; 


their medicines or “abolish” them as 
doctors. 

I, for one, am not satisfied with their 
prescription, (if it be theirs) but I do 
not see why I am therefore called upon 
to attend to their “abolishment.” 

Mr. Wolcott says the Board of Health 
made an “exhaustive investigation and 
report in 1897” and that their views 
have remained “unchanged” since then. 

According to Mr. Wolcott the Board 
of Health has therefore known for the 
past 14 years of the disgraceful condi- 
tions. If one considers the somewhat 
extraordinary statutory powers of the 
Board in such matters, the question 
naturally arises, Why the delay of 14 
‘years in having a health nuisance 
abated? 

My confidence in a pill given me by a 
| physician who has seen me suffer for 14 
years without relieving me is not as 
ereat as Mr) Wolcott’s would apparently 
be. 

Mr. Wolcott says in one paragraph: 
“the whole river bed is at present en- 
crusted with accumulated pollution 
which must be removed before it will 
| again be clean;” and that it is now pro- 
posed “merely to cut off some sharp 
| bends which interfere seriously with its 
| flow.” 
| I could hardly believe my eyes when 
[ read the foregoing, but there it is! If 
it is now proposed to spend $150,000, “to 
cut off some sharp bends” in this river, 
and if the whole river bed, for miles 
and miles, must be cleared of its “in- 
crustations,” how much is this clearing 
going to cost? Why not get the whole 
“big pill’ now and take a look at it, 
rather than begin with a little one 
($150,000), with the directions to “Keep 
taking till death ensues?” 

Mr. Woleott cites the similar work 
done on the Sudbury River—and for the 
benefit of Concord. I have good scien- 
tific authority for the statement that 
the work on the Sudbury was “without 
any beneficial result,” and with “no im. 
| provement of the land of the Sudbury 
meadows.” and further that since the 
work ‘was done Concord has had “an 
epidemic” of malaria. 

There may be malaria in the Neponset 
Valley, but, in 25 years continuous resi- 
dence there, I have never heard of more 
than one case, and that was not through 
jan. We don’t want any 


any phys 
“epidemic.” 

Mr. Wolcott says the plan is to “pre- 
vent the overflow in the late spring and 
summer.’ There haye been no such 
overflows between May lst and Novem- 
ber Ist during the past 25 years, to my 
personal knowledge. The meadows flood 
pretty regularly in December or January 
and the flood continues until the ice 
breaks up. It then runs off. In the 
summer there is hardly any flow. 

Nothing, which Mr. Wolcott says is 
now proposed, will stop this annual over- 
flow. . 

Mr. Wolcott says that “the active pol- 
lution of the River is being rapidly abol- 
‘shed? I never remember seeing it look 
or smell worse than it did about two 
weeks ago, but I will take his word for 


tt. 


All I suggest, (and I renew the sug- 
‘gestion), is that we wait a bit and see 
‘hat the conditions are when the pollu- 
io is really “abolished.” 

Perhaps, then, we won't have to either 


| $150,000 “to cut off some sharp bends.” 
Felix Rackemann. 


une 23, 1911. 


abolish the Board of Health or spend 


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ly four times as many new varieties 
have been introduced by other dealers, 
Most of the introductions of others are 
not now generally even listed.” The 
Burbank plum, which was introduced 
less than twenty years ago, is now per- 
haps more widely known than any oth- 
er plum, the world over; but, he says, 
“hundreds of better plums have since 
been produced on my _ experiment 
farms.” The Burbank potato is now 
the universal standard in the Pacific 
Coast States, and is gradually taking 
the lead in the Middle West. The new 
Burbank cherry is sold at high prices 
in Eastern markets. Altogether, there 
are already above a hundred valuable 
new plants, fruits, and flowers, “every 
one of which has proved better than 
those known before in some new qual- 
ity, in some soils and climates. All do 
not thrive everywhere. Please name 
one good fruit or nut that does.” 

The last two sentences are directed at 
those of Burbank’s critics who trium- 
pPhantly point to cases of failure of his 
new products in this or that locality. 
Judgment has to be used; “certain vari- 
eties which are a success in one locality 
may be, and often are, a complete fail- 
ure a few miles distant, or near by on 
a different soil or at a different eleva- 
tion,’ The Burbank Crimson Winter 
Rhubarb has been offered by unprinci- 
pled dealers in the cold Northern States, 
though they must know that it cannot 
prove successful there. For this new 
type Mr. Burbank makes the claim that 
it is the most valuable vegetable intro- 
duced during the last quarter of a cen- 
tury. So many fortunes have been made 
with it in California and Florida that it 
has. been named “The Mortgage Lifter,” 
The chief forester of the Government of 
South Africa reports that at Cape Town, 
where all other rhubarbs had been a 
failure for two centuries, the Burbank 
Crimson Winter variety turned out a 
complete success. Yet Mr. Burbank now 
has a still further improved variety, the 
Giant, which excels the original Crim- 
son Winter Rhubarb “at least 400 per 
cent.” 

‘Tt is amazing what opposition one 
has in experimenting, and the ignorance 
there is to contend with,” writes an Bng- 
lish appreciator of this American’s re- 
markable horticultural achievements. 
Yet Luther Burbank declares that the 
greatest inconvenience or injustice he 
has met is not misunderstanding, preju- 
dice, envy, jealousy, or ingratitude, but 
the fact that purchasers are so often 
deceived by unscrupulous dealers who, 
misusing his name, foist upon the pub- 
lic green carnations, hardy bananas, 
blue roses, seedless watermelons, and a 
thousand other things, including United 
States Government thorny cactus for 
the Burbank Thornless. 


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Mr. Burbank writes with feeling. Four- | 


teen years ago the first scientific experi- 
ments for the improvement of cactus 


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plants were instituted on hig farms. | 


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Hight years later, when the long and 
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the United States Department of Agri- 
culture spent $10,000 in searching tte! JL 
world for a cactus of great agricultur- C-ck ‘ 
‘ 
reat, yruduced on his farm, but the re- LenS A. 2 Pd e AA, 
sult was a failure; the “spineless cac- | : 
ra 
riculture is not spineless, not safe to AW 
handle or feed to stock, and the fruit is 
Nine years ago Prof, L. H. Bailey of 
Cornell wrote of Mr. Burbank: ‘tHe &, % 
rieties he sells to seedsmen and nursery- 
men, but his experiments are so exten-’ 
the mere zest of it, that he does not? 
make money”; 
dow this experimental garden and allow” 
its proprietor to devote his whole eo hah aeeT: 
Carnegie Institute undertook that ser- = o 
vice, but the alliance did not last long. 
Mr. Burbank now writes that “after hav- 
purpose of ‘the benefit of science’ for 
five years by the Carnegie Institution of | 
ness, hampering restrictions, and un- | 
profitable conditions, and having dictat- 
several thousand pages, it is a most 
gracious relief to return to a life free 
strictions, to a life of active freedom.” 
At present, he adds, he has reorganized 
to the world more good fruits and flow- 
ers from time to time, This he will 


costly labor was crowned with success, 
a] and horticultural value like those al- 
tus” sent out by the Department of Ag- 
small and poor. t Pa sa 
secures his livelihood from. the new va- 
AF Ses 

sive and he tries so many things for 

and he suggested that 
some philanthropist could “render a 
good service to mankind if he would en- 
gy to research.” A few years later the 
ing been under ‘capture’ for the avowed i & Cone 
Washington, five years of care, lean- 
ed to and corrected for their botanists 
from the red tape of institutional re- 
his whole business and promises to give 
doubtless do. 


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Short, | 
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One of the most interesting botanical Card 
regions in our country lies near San Fran- 
| cisco. It has been carefully explored kre 
by a good many botanists, both professional ‘i / 
and amateur, and its treasures are more or 6 ‘ 
less accessible in numerous treatises. One 
ot the most convenient of these is Prof. 


W. L. Jepson’s “Flora of Western Middle Ye e G x v) 
California” i . 


(San Francisco: Cunningham, 


Curtiss & Welch), a second revised edition ; ; 
of which has just appeared. The “key” to! 
the natural families has been constructed 


in-such a manner as to lead even a begin- 
® ner by easy steps, and the descriptions, / 

bcth generic and specific, are sufficiently 

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ample, There are no illustrations, but the 
lack is not altogether serious. One could g 
wish that, for the botanists coming from 


the East, rather more information had been 
given about trivial and yet interesting pe- y 
culiarities, such as fragrance, exceptional 
— methods of dissemination, and the like. The a 
author has wisely adopted the sequence 


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which places at the beginning of the book 
the families simplest in structure and low- 
est in the scale, passing thence to the more 


| highly differentiated. He has not attempted | | a5 a 
tc indicate by accents the pronunciation of t ‘ 
the technical names of the plants, always 


a difficult and ungracious task, and one ee 
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which is, on the whole, of little worth; nor, 
quite properly, has he contrived common ar cant fo 
| names for the nativespecies, although he has “Ley 

retained the good ones, like ‘“cream-cups,” ; 

|“sand-verbena,” “tar-weed,” ete. Informa- Wn PGts 

|tion concerning local] words is given com- 

|pactly and well. Thus, ‘Chaparral con- 

sists of Manzanita, Pickeringia, Buck- CV CAP 
brush, Scruboak, or similar shrubs which 
form impenetrable and extensive thickets ae 
clothing densely the higher slopes and 


|ridges of the Coast Ranges, and the foothills Y, ‘ 
and middle altitudes of the Sierra Nevada,” rae, 


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+ The handy volume of over 500 pages of 1 ; 
» small octavo contains a geographical index, VWnnubharct, 
a sufficient glossary, and_a good index of ie 

names, “ew ‘ 


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FIELD MEETING, WATERBURY, VT. 


The Field Meeting of r911, held at the Waterbury Inn, Waterbury, 
Vermont, June 30 to July 10, under the leadership of George N. 

. Whipple and Arthur H. Tucker, came at a time which will be remem- 

bered as one of intense heat all over the entire country, but, in spite 

of this, unless all signs failed (as they are said to do in a dry time) 
none of the thirty-four members and friends present regretted their 
participation in the trip. 

Twenty-four left Boston in a special sleeper at 7.30 P.M. and ar- 
rived at Waterbury one and one-half hours late, at five the next morn- 
ing, where the car remained on a siding until the breakfast hour at 
the Inn distant only a stone’s throw from the station. 

We were pleasantly surprised during the forenoon by a call from 
Mr. Graves, Mr. Smith, the Rev. Mr. Newell and the Rev. Mr. Boi- 
court, representatives of the Camel’s Hump Club, who came to give 
us greeting and offer us the freedom of the mountains. 

In the afternoon seventeen enjoyed a beautiful walk under the lead- 
ership of Charles Fisk, a local guide, engaged by Mr. Davis, proprie- 
tor of the Inn, at his own expense, for that purpose. He took us to 
Blush Hill where we had fine views of Mt. Mansfield in the north and 
Camel’s Hump on the west. 

Perhaps it is worthy of mention that on Sunday morning almost 
fifty per cent. of the party attended church. In the afternoon nine 
took a walk southward to a hillside commanding fine views. 

Monday morning at eight o’clock twenty-five started for Mt. Mans- 
field, going to Stowe by special trolley car and driving from there by 
team. Some drove to the summit while others walked from the base. 
We reached the Summit House in time for dinner and and spent the 
afternoon rambling at will over the broad ridge of the mountain, from 
the Chin, the highest point, to the Nose, just above the hotel. The 
air was hazy with no possibility of distant views. The evening was 
spent on a ledge of the Nose looking toward the west. 

t Tuesday we returned to Waterbury, reversing our route of the day 
before and varying it by a visit to Smuggler’s Notch at the eastern 
foot of the mountain. Seven reached this by the bed of the outlet of 
the Lake of the Clouds, a pleasant trip for those who enjoy a rough 
scramble. The Notch is beautiful in itself and contains two very in- 
teresting things, a boulder about forty feet high which fell from the 
western side in the Spring of 1910, and a spring under the eastern 
bank, near the road, discharging enough water to make a very respec- 
table river flowing out of the Notch. 


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AN AUTOMORILE OWNER INDORSES 
STOREY'S STAND 


To the Hditor of the Transeript: 

I intrude into your correspondence eol- 
umn only because I feel it a duty to pub- 
licly second the protest of my friend Storey 
against the general Indifference to the 
death-dealing automobile, We have made 
the fatal mistake of allowing the operator 
of this machine to assume that its capacity 
for speel gives it superior rights in the 
road, The fact is, and the Jaw, that it 
has no more or other rights there than any 
other yehicle, .or any pedestrian, man, 
woman or child, or even a child at play: 
for the law recognizes that children will 
play in the street, without withdrawing its 
protection from them, Every automobilist 
knows pow irritating children and slow or 
dull or frightened people sometimes are, ‘but 
they have a right to be there, and they 
must be dealt with according to their na- 
ture. The law, properly construed and ap- 


plied, protects them. The courts do not 
enforce the law. 

The present disgraceful situation is al- 
most wholly due to disregard of one simple 
legal principle, which is to be read into all 
the speed statutes, namely, that a danger- 
ous machine in the, public Stretes must be 
handled with a degree of care proportioned 
to its dangerous character. Apart from 
all statutory speed limits, it should at all 
times anit in all places be under such 
control as-to avoid endangering life or limb 
This, of course, requires a great reduction 
of the usual speed in many places, but it 
requires nothing more. 

The application of this rule, which ought 
to have Leén made from the beginning by 
all In nuthority, would east the blama 
probably of ninety-nine in a hundred -of 
the “accidénts,’’ as we call them, where it 
properly ‘belongs, upon the driver of the 
machine ard equally upon the owner if, he 
ig in it. The “accidents’’ happen beeatss 
the car is being driven so fast that when 
the danger arises—in the fraction of a 
second perhaps—It cannot be avoided, This 
rule, and half a dozen jail sentences in the 
early stages of the business, on the owneys, 
no less than the driver, for whose conduct 
he is, if present, in fact and in law respon- 
sible, would have kept the roads safe. But 
we began wrons, and now enormous monied 
interests have arisen which will make it 
their business to keep what we in our folly 
have given them—practically the right to 
run down anybody who does not jump for 
his life at the shriek of the horn; where- 
upon ‘no blame is attached to the driver’ 
by a highly enlightened policeman, police 
court judge or highway commissioner, and 
there is an end of it. The mother weeps, 
the friends send flowers, and the automo: 
bile Is off again, at forty miles an hour. 

tt is said, and probably is true, that the 
automobile is now killing and maiming 
more people than all the railroads together. 
The slaughter will go on until the list of 
viotims becomes go large or something hap- 
pens so appalling as to bring: the peoples, 
and possibly the courts and Legislatures, 

oo their senses, 
bere a this is mot the worst of :t. We 
have laws, such as they are, The automo- 
bile spits contempt upon them, and is do- 
ing more than all other agencies together to 
inspire contempt for all law. The average 
chauffeur, and the average owner, laugh 
at it operly. The machines of three gov- 
ernors of Massachusetts have ‘been stopped 
on the road for overspeeding, and the 
newspapers and the publie made a joke [en 
it, The “whirlwind tour’ of the political 
campaigner, from. the President of the 
United States down to a candidate for the 
Common Council, involves utter disregard 
of jt, as everybody knows, and nobody 
cares, What can Whe ay gene a votre. 

his teens entr ' h auto. 
SUE ete ean we expect the faite ee: 
eration Lo think of law in general, in the 
face of such public examples? 

I speak without prejudice, and with some 
knowledge of the subject, as one who is 
now using his. third automobile. T have 
never injured so much as a chicken, nor 
found any great difficulty in avoiding it, 
althougn my own life is almost daily put 
{n peril vy some reckless rascal who meets 
or passes me at railroad speed without a 
note of warning. This is the common ex- 
periencé of the small minority who try to 
use the automobile with decent regard to 
the rignts and safety of others. and they 
have an added right to protest against the 
ruffianism that makes it an engine of ter- 
ror and all association with it disreputable. 

A, E, PILLssurr 


Boston, Nov, 3 


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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 


J, MURRAY FORBES ON THE AUTO- 
MOBIL 


To the Editor of the Transcript; 

Your recent letter from Mr. Moorfield 
Storey and Mr, A. E. Pillsbury are just 
protests and rightly describe the dan- 
gers to pedestrians, children and motor- 
ists themselves from these engines of 
destruction, 

Had the. evil been foreseen at the out- 
set it cannot be believed that such ma- 
chines would ever have been allowed 
Such general and unrestricted use of our 
Streets and country roads as they have 
usurped by concerted action. 

We are a long-suffering people in 
many ways, but with the increasing use 
of automobiles and the great disregard 
shown by so many owners and chauf- 
feurs, it is indeed time that strenuous 
measures were taken to lessen this 
Killing and maiming. Probably more 
than 90 per cent, T was about to say 99 
per cent, including the sane portion of 
automobilists themselves, would be 
thankful to see this reign of terror 
cease and the inconsiderate owner and 
driver summarily dealt with in such 
manner as Mr. Pillsbury points out: 

The world has never witnessed, in my 
belief, such merctless and unnecessary 
killing and maiming, such disregard of 
the law and safety and rights of others, 
as is occasioned on our streets and 
country roads by scorchers, by men and 
women ignorant of the rules of the road 
or learning to run a ear and at the same 
time learning to seorn the law and the 
rights of others, and often by chauffeurs 
running alone without the eye of their 
owner upon them, 

It seems as if the average person 
loses proper regard for the safety and 
consideration of others as s500n as he 
or she enters a machine and prepares to 
run an engine along the highway, 
through crowded streets and past halting 
trolley cars as if the question of speed 
Was their only thought, although the 
loss of a moment or two is senerally 
of not the least importance to them, 

I speak as the owner of an automobile 
and one who is much on the road, espe- 
cially. on horseback, The roads are made 
very greasy and slippery, on account of tho 
use of automobiles; a horse with enough 
spirit to keep on his legs may take these 
machines with comparative quiet if given 
fair consideration, but it is more than can 
be expected of him when they scorch past 
with throttle open and horn blowing, and 
it is my sad experience that a large and 
increasing proportion of the operators of 


| these machines will crowd my horse Into 


the gutter, or pass within a foot or so of 
my horse or carrlage, with an ahsolute 
lack of consideration for the rights or 


| Safety of others. I could cite cases where 


machines have come on me at excessive 
speed and passed on either side of my 
horse and many other instances that can 
hardly be credited, ; 


Thus we see that there ts little safety, 


and Jess pleasure, for anyone who ventures 
upon our streets or country roads, on foot 
or with a horsé or eyen in his machine. 
There are many persons who look upon 
white hair (and whiskers) with more or 
less reverence, I’ possess both, but they 
have, failed to save my belng crowded into 
the gutter by many and many a ruthless 
antomobilist with his open throttle, clang- 
ing horn and unlawful speed, 

I am going to put my name to this com- 
munication for any Uttle weight it may 
earry with sane and reasonable persons, 
for I know pre experiences on the 
road are borne out by the vast majority 
who love and use the horse; or who love 
and respect human life and limb. T will 
also include the many aged and timid per- 
sons who are deprived of their drives or 
walks by reason of this disgraceful reign 
of terror, Perchance some friend may read 
this, one who fs reasonably sane on other 


subjects, and he or she may derisively say 


that he or she khew how I felt about auto- 
mobiles, Let that pass: they belong to that 


lass who never owned a horse, or who 


cannot or will not appreciate the dangers 
to the public and themselyes caused by the 
gréat number of reckless and inexperienced 
operators of automohiles. 

It is high time that concerted action 
should -be taken to bring the people and 
the courts to their Senses regarding this 
increasing recklessness and lack of consid- 
eration for the rights of others. 

Milton, Noy, 6. J. Muruay Forres 


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Christmas 19] ] 


A XCERRY CHRISTMAS 


to you, a peaceful Christmas, a 
useful Christmas and a comfort- 
‘ ing Christmas. .A Christmas to 
look back upon with pleasure, a 
Christmas of unruffled brow and 
smiling lips, a Christmas that will 
find you merry and leave you 
glad, andif you can think of any 
other nice sort of Christmas for 
yourself, that also is wished you by 


William L. Richardson 


225, Commonwealth Avenue, 
Boston 


yy, avi el Angelo gave Moses’ horns 
Kakaate He ree ee Latin. Bible, in’ 
Exodus xxxiy., 29, ‘“‘Ignorabat quod cornuta 
esset facies sua,” where the King James 
version has ‘‘wist not that the skin of his 
face shone.’ The Hebrew word which is 
rendered (rightly) ‘‘shone’ ds derived ae 
the Hebrew word for “‘horn, which ee 
be used for ‘‘flashes of light. The La : 
version, with its “‘cornuta,’’ and Hoe, use o 
horns as symbols of power, together led tO 
} a habit of representing Moses with horns 
| springing from his forehead. L. W. 
| In the statement found in Exodus xxxiv.: 
29-30, that when,Moses came down from 
the Mount ‘The skin of ius face ae 
the Hebrew word rendered “shone’’ sign HS 
to send forth, to emit. Our eke ce 
considered it to mean sending forth rays of 
light, and hence their rendering koe 
The Latin Vulgate, however, Meare 2 
doubtless by the fact that the Hebrew SRS 
for horn is derived from this verb, strane . 
rendered it ‘‘was horned.”’ Sculptors ah 
| painters who wére guided by the Vulgate, 
Eg equently represented Moses as having 
see It may be added that the Septua- 
gint Varsion (Gréek) renders it ‘ hes Pa 
glorious,’ and with this agrees OF Speen 
reference to the same event in 2 " i iS 
thians: 3-7, when he speaks of the ‘glory 
of the countenance of Moses. ig aA 


5 it is said 

odus 84: 29, 30, 85, where 
Pe seo that the skin of his face shone, 
SS — 


| beams, and this view is adopted by Sir 


The plural of thi ds used in Habak- 
kuk 3:4, with t evident sense of “rays.” 
Now in the passage from Exodus the Latin 
Bible has cornuta, cornutam, which is ren- 
dered in ‘the Douai version by “horned,’’ 


cause many artists had done the same 
thing before, and because in the Latin 
Bible ' (Vulgate edition) Exodus xxxiv,, 
Verse 29, it says that “his face was horned,” 
as translated in the Doual version of 1685, 
“And when Moyses came downe from the: 
‘Mount Sinaf, he held the two tables of 
testimonie, and he knew not that his face | 


horned they were afraid to come neer,”’ A 
marginal note Says: “So his face appeared 
to the beholders by reason of the glister- 
ing beames) of his countenance shining 
gloriously, after his conversation with God 
fourtie dayes.” Our 80-called English 
Bibles, so far as I know, follow other 
‘translations than the Vulgate of Jerome, at 
least 'Coverdale's ‘Bible of 1685 translates 
verse 29 a3 follows: “Now when Moses 
came downe fro Mount Sinai he had the 
two tables of wytnesse in his hande, and 
wyst not that the skinne of his fase 
Shyned because he had talked with him,”’ 
And Schmidt's Latin Bible published at 
Strasburg, 1596, translated from the 
original tongues, has the Same rendering In 
‘Latin from the Hebrew: “And Moses’ did 
not know that the skin of his face shone 
while he was Speaking.” 

Fabricius (1516-1571) a German scholar 
and archzeologist, called attention to the 
Hebrew word for horns and showed that 


Word meaning shining rays, or bright 


Thomas Erowne (1605-1682), the English es- 
Sayist and medical writer: one chapter of 
his “Vulgar Errors,” ‘hook v., capter 9, en. 
titled “of the picture of Moses with 
horns” js very interesting and instructive, 
considering the State of biblical criticism 
in his day. The question whether any 
Oriental symbolism influenced the earlier 
artists an4q Sculptors has been mooted, but 
it probably did not occur to Michael Angelo 


ot bee he had such hae text in his own 
Bible. vB o P| . IF 2c G. K. 


| hours was the least for any year since 


| velocity being the lowest on record at 


| January, February, 


/cember had the lowest wind movement 
; On record and 


| direction was west. 


BLUE HILLS WEATHER REPORT. |. 
December Notable for its Warmth—| | 


Summary of the Conditions During 
1911. 


December was notable tor its warmth, 
the absence of snow and of other char- | 
acteristics of winter. The mean tem- | 
perature of 34.7 degrees was 5,9 degrees 
above the normal and the highest for 
December since 1891. Last year it was| 
23.7 degrees. The maximum 
ture of the month was 65 degrees on |; 
the 12th and this is the highest tem- | 
perature in December since December 14, | 
1881, when 68 degrees was recorded. The}! 

lowest temperature of the month was 11} 
degrees on thei 5th, The temperature | 
rose above freezing on all except four | 
days and from the 6th to the 14th did 
no. fall below 84 degrees. | 

The total Precipitation of 3.24 inches 
Was .56. inch less than the normal| 
amount and nearly all in the form of 
rain. In December, 1910, the total was! 
*.59 inches, Rain fell on eight days and | 
the most in one day was 1.32 inches on/| 
the 23d. There were measurable snows | 
on the 15th and 31st and the total fall | 
was 5.5 inches. There was the average | 
relative humidity, the mean for the | 

| month of 74.4, per cent. being exactly | 
normal, | 


tempera: | 


The total amount of sunshine of 117 | 
hours was 11 hours less than the aver- | 
age and there was somewhat less than | 
the average and there was somewhat | 
niore cloudiness than usual. There was | 
little wind except during the closing | 
days of the month, and the mean hourly | 
velocity was the lowest 
December, 


| 
on record for | 
The maximum velocity was | 
67 miles per hour from the west on | 
the 28th. The prevailing wind direc- | 
tion was west. | 


Abnormally high temperatures in Jan- | 
vary, May, July and December caused 
1911 to average as a warm year al-| 
though the eight other months were all] 
somewhat cooler than usual. The mean 
temperature of 47.8 degrees was 9 de- 
grees above the average and the same | 
as in 1910. 1911 is the fourth conseeu- | 
tive year to be warmer than normal. The | 
temperatures departures of May, July | 
and December were remarkable, May | 
' being’ the warmest month of the name 
in 31 years, July the warmest on record | 
and December the warmest in 20 years. | 
Unprecented temperatures were expe- 
rienced in July, on six days maxima | 
higher than before recorded being ob- | 
served, the highest reached being 99.3 
degrees on July 8rd. There were no ex- 
tremely low temperatures, the minimum | 
for the year being one above zero on | 
February 6th. 

Like the three preceding years 191.1 | 
Was deficient j | 


preeipitati Hn, but I a 
less degree, the total of 44.62 inches 
being 1.35 inches less than normal and | 
the most for any year since 1907. June, | 
July, August and November were the} 
_ only months with more than the aver- 
age rainfall August being the wettest 
month of the year with 6.70 inches. 
May was notably dry, with a total rain- 
fall of only .89 inch which was the | 
least for May on record, During the 
year there were 45 inches of snow which 
was 17 inches less than nomal. There 
was a marked absence of snow in Janu- 
ary and December, only one inch fall- 
ing in January and in December nearly 
all the total fell on the 31st. There 
was an excess of snow in April, the 
total fall of 10 inches being six inches 
more than the average. 

There was slightly more sunshine than 
usual, but the total amount of 2260 


1907.* There was a slight ‘excess of 
cloudiness and nearly the average rela- 
tive humidity. There was little wind 
throughout the year, the mean hourly 


Blue Hill. March was the only month 
with a normal wind movement, all other 
months having less wind than usual, 
August and De- 


August had the least 
wind of any month thus far observed at 
Blue Hill. The maximum velocity of 
the year was 67 miles per hour from 
the west on Dec. 28th aad there were 
few other gales. The prevailing wind 
L. A. Wells. 
Blue Hill Observatory. 

January 1, 1912. 


THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 


THE 74th regular meeting of the society was 
held at the Cosmos Club, Tuesday, October 10, 
1911, at eight o’clock p.m. In the absence of the 
regular officers, Dr, Albert Mann presided. 
Twenty-five members were present. 

The following papers were read: 


The Wilting Coefficient for Different Plants and 
iis Indirect Determination: Dr. L. J. Briees 
and Dr. H, L, SHaNTz (Presented by Dr. 
Shantz. ) 


The Forest of Arden, a Dream: UH. GC, SKREELS. 

The Forest of Arden is a 300-acre tract of 
native woodland, three miles east of Joliet, IIl., 
in the valley of Hickory Creek, and forms a part 
of the 2,000-acre estate, Harlow-Arden, of Mr. H. 
N. Higinbotham, of Chieago. The creek is dammed 
in three places, with locks through the two upper 
dams, giving a mile and a half of boating. Five 
miles of gravel drives have been laid out, the pur- 
pose being to display the landscape beauties of 
mixed meadows and woods to the best advantage, 
Along these drives, beginning with the ferns and 
following the accepted sequence of plant families 
to the composites, there has been planted a botanic 
garden of 2,000 species, room being left for as 
many more. 

Hach species is located by its place in the se- 
quence, and by a map, cross-sectioned to square 
100 feet on each side, accompanied by an index 
giving the plant names and the number of the 
square on which each will be found. ‘There are 
no formal beds and no labels, but the species are 
there, to be seen by those interested, 

The eleventh annual business meeting of the 
society was held on Tuesday, October 24, 1911. 
Officers were elected as follows: President, W. A. 
Orton; Vice-president, A. 8. Hitchcock; Recording 
Secretary, Edw. ©. Johnson; Corresponding Secre- 
tary, W. W. Stockberger; Treasurer, F. 1, Lew- 
ton. The executive committee reported an active 
membership of 104, there having been nineteen 
accessions during the year. 


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