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(c) The Mary Sachs was sanctioned by the 

 government for the Banks Island work, the North 

 Star was not. [A copy of the instructions sanc- 

 tioning the Mary Sachs, dated Ottawa, 5th May, 

 1914, is on file in the Department of Mines.] 



(d) News of the Karluk's crew having reached 

 Wrangell Island made provision for them on 

 Banks Island unnecessary. 



(e) Where orders were too contradictory to be 

 reconciled, it was considered more ethical to fol- 

 low out the carefully considered plans of the 

 government. 



The reviewer of Mr. Stefansson's book was 

 unaware, of course, of all these documents; but 

 a sense of justice and the exercise of a little 

 critical acumen should have saved him from 

 accepting Mr. Stefansson's charges at their 

 face value. The real value to be placed on 

 them, as well as on other statements made by 

 Mr. Stefansson, the reader can determine for 

 himself in the light of the documents quoted 

 above. 



D. Jenness 



Victoria Memoeiai, Museum, 

 Ottawa 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



PASTEUR AS DRAMAi 

 Pasteur is the title of the play with which 

 M. Lucien Guitry, the eminent French actor, 

 has this week opened his repertory season in 

 London. The piece, which was played last year 

 in London on a few occasions by M. Guitry, 

 was first produced in Paris in 1919. It no 

 doubt owes something to the successful produc- 

 tion in this country of Abraham Lincoln, for 

 both plays depict a great man in selected 

 scenes at different periods of his life. The 

 author of Pasteur is M. Sacha Guitry, son of 

 the actor, who admittedly found his inspiration 

 in Vallery-Radot's biogi-aphy of Pasteur, and 

 designed the play especially to suit the talents 

 of his distinguished father. The first act shows 

 Pasteur in his study with his pupils at the out- 

 break of the war of 1870. In the second act 

 there is a moving representation of a meeting 

 of the Academy of Medicine, where Pasteur 

 vigorously combats an attack upon his theories , 

 in this scene the audience plays the part of the 

 members of the Academy, with one or two 

 actors speaking from the stalls. In the third 

 I From the British Medical Journal. 



act the boy Joseph Meister, who has been 

 bitten by a mad dog, is brought to be inoculated 

 by Pasteur, who sends for a doctor to perform 

 the inoculation, for Pasteur himself held no 

 medical qualification. The dramatist shows his 

 art at the close of this act, for Pasteur, al- 

 though he knows he can give no help, stays on 

 all night in ease something unexpected may 

 happen. The scene changes in the fourth act 

 to Pasteur's home in the country, where he is 

 ill and on the verge of a breakdown ; his friend 

 the doctor tries to persuade him to take a rest, 

 but Pasteur is deeply engaged in the study of 

 epilepsy and cannot tear himself away. To 

 him comes again Joseph Meister, now a youth, 

 and a delightfully sympathetic scene ensues be- 

 tween the two. The last act is the crown of 

 Pasteur's career, his reception by the president 

 of the republic in the amphitheater of the Sor- 

 bonne, crowded by his friends, among whom ia 

 Lister, whose name is announced, although he 

 does not actually appear on the scene. The 

 play has no "love interest" and no female 

 character, and follows no dramatic rules; it is 

 practically a series of monologues, in which the 

 actual words of Pasteur are often used, and its 

 only unity is in the portrayal of its chief char- 

 acter. It is a triumph for M. Lucien Guitry, 

 who appears to live the part of the simple, 

 unaffected, kindly man of genius. 



FOREIGN STUDENTS AND THE FEDERAL 

 IMMIGRATION LAWS 



Exemption of bona fide foreign students 

 from the operation of the present immigration 

 law is urged in a resolution adopted recently by 

 the executive committee of the American Asso- 

 ciation of University Professors. The resolu- 

 tion states : 



Whereas, The omission to exempt bona fide stu- 

 dents desirous of entering American institutions 

 of learning from the operation of the present 

 immigration law is probably due to inadvertence, 

 inasmuch as such students are expressly exempted 

 from the operation of the Chinese exclusion act 

 and the agreement with Japan ; 



Whereas, the actual operation of the immigra- 

 tion law has been attended with such deplorable 

 annoyance to incoming students as to lower the 

 prestige of the United States as a center of edu- 

 cation; 



