The Days of a Man HI 907 



American Stanford graduate in electrical engineering, who, find- 

 -^ g uva to \ ac \^ a lighting system despite the fine 

 waterfall not far away, at once submitted to the 

 municipal council a proposal for an electric light 

 plant. But enterprise moves slowly in the South 

 Seas, and nothing came of it. 



Noticing on Elwell's suitcase the paster of a Buda- 

 pest hotel, I asked him how he got it. "Oh, when I 

 came back from Zanzibar, I ran over to Budapest to 

 meet some cousins of mine who live there." For sev- 

 eral years now a well-known electrical inventor, dur- 

 ing the war he was engaged in building Poulsen wire- 

 less stations for the governments of Great Britain 

 and France. 



At Honolulu I left the Manuka, to take passage on 

 the Manchuria, a large and very stable vessel carrying 

 a number of pleasant California acquaintances, 

 among them Judge Charles W. Slack of San Fran- 

 cisco, on the way home from Japan with his family. 



An inter- My stay in Australasia had been shortened by the 

 'commt- necess ity of going to Boston to attend a session of 

 nan of the International Congress of Zoology, and so meet 

 Zoology with my colleagues on the International Commission 

 of Zoological Nomenclature, to which I had been 

 elected at the Berne Congress in 1904. This self- 

 perpetuating body was provided for at Cambridge in 

 1901, and granted power to act on matters within its 

 scope; it consists of eighteen members chosen indi- 

 vidually for nine years, the terms of service of six to 

 expire with each triennial Congress, the commission 

 meanwhile framing and announcing decisions by cor- 



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