1915] War Notes 255 



Professors who have been driven f rom Belgium and may give courses 

 at Harvard Univ. next year. 



Personal. The Imperial Soc. of Naturalists, Moscow, has re- 

 moved the names of Prof's Haeckel and Ostwald from the list of 

 members because they signed the address "To Civilized Nations." 



In answer to the manifesto of the " German intellectuals," which 

 is considered as unifying German culture and German militarism, 

 La Societe Nationale d'Acclimatisation de France has removed from 

 its hst of members all Germans and Austrians. 



Among the German scientific men who have affixed their names 

 to a manifesto renouncing the honors conferred upon them by Eng- 

 lish univ's and other learned institutions are Prof's Ehrlich, v. Beh- 

 ring, Haeckel, Weismann, Wundt, Lenard and Roentgen, 



Prof's Waldeyer, Orth and others have added their protest to 

 that of Prof's Foerster and Verworn against the action of Prof's 

 Ehrlich, v. Behring, Roentgen and others, in melting down the 

 medals and renouncing the honors conferred upon them by various 

 scientific bodies in Great Britain. 



HoNORARY DEGREE. The Uuiv. of Königsberg has bestowed an 

 honorary M.D. upon Gen. v. Hindenburg " for making the Russians 

 take their medicine." 



Chemical items. Anilin dyes. A special commit. of N. Y. 

 chemists, appointed to investigate and report upon conditions and 

 needs involved in the enlargement of the coal-tar dye industry in the 

 U. S., have published their report in the Jour. Ind. and Eng. Chem. 

 (Dec, 1914). 



Drugs. The Austrian gov. has prohibited the exportation of 

 hosp. supplies. lab. animals, vaccins, and various drugs and chem- 

 icals, including phenol, mercury, iodin, bismuth, strychnin, morphin, 

 etc. 



Radium. The European war has, for the present at least, 

 totally closed the European market to Amer. radium ores. As is 

 well known, the uranium ores of Colorado and Utah are sold ex- 

 clusively for their radium content, so little use being known for 

 uranium that the ores can not be sold for their content of that de- 

 ment. The closure of the European market leaves but one known 

 buyer, so that while the war lasts and probably for some time after- 



