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furnish references to the world's literature of science. Ever since 

 war conditions made it necessary to suspend publication in 1921, 

 it has been the hope that foreign political and financial conditions 

 would improve sufficiently to enable the cooperating countries to 

 again furnish the necessary funds through subscription as hereto- 

 fore, but with the exchange rates of several of these countries now 

 at a low^er lerel than ever before, it seems that this hope will be 

 futile for some time to come. 



Although actual publication has ceased for the present, the organ- 

 ization is in no sense bankrupt, for, according to an agreement made 

 at the Brussels Convention in 1922, the regional bureaus continue 

 their work of assembling current bibliographical data, thus keep- 

 ing the organization working, and when publication is resumed it 

 is believed that new subscribers will purchase the back issues of the 

 catalogue now held in storage. It would be difficult to find an ob- 

 ject more worthy of endowment than this unique international, 

 cooperative undertaking, for no similar enterprise has ever filled 

 the place occupied by the catalogue and no new organization could 

 hope to gain the official recognition held by the International Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature. 



NECROLOGY 



HENRY CABOT LODGE 



Henry Cabot Lodge, United States Senator since 1893 and Regent 

 of the Smithsonian Institution for 22 years, died November 9, 1924. 

 Born in 1850, Mr. Lodge was admitted to the bar in 1876, and dur- 

 ing the early part of his career served as editor of the North Ameri- 

 can Review and later of the International Review. He next served 

 for two years as a member of the Massachusetts House of Repre- 

 sentatives, and in 1887 was elected to Congress, where he remained 

 until 1893. In this year began his career as a United States Sena- 

 tor, to which office he was continually reelected until the time of his 

 death, and the last term for which he was chosen to represent the 

 people of Massachusetts would not have expired until 1929. 



Mr. Lodge was a very influential member of the Senate, having 

 serve d as Republican floor leader from 1918 until the year of his 

 death. In addition to his political activity, he was the author of 

 many im])ortant historical works and essays. 



Through his long period of membership on the Board of Regents 

 and his interest and active participation in the affairs of the Insti- 

 tution, Senator Lodge had become a valued adviser, and his loss 

 is keenly felt by the board and the officers of the Institution. 



