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SCIENCE 



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As sometimes happens with those who have 

 come to us "bringing gifts in their hands," 

 Jacobi was, in helpful, unlifting citizenship, 

 an inspiring example. He once said to me, 

 very simply : " I am a Hebrew by race, but not 

 clannish, not a sectarian." His adaptation to 

 environment was, as in Osier's case, that of a 

 colonial or continental American. In actual- 

 ity, he belonged to the nobler ante-bellixm gen- 

 eration which produced the " Lees, Lincolns, 

 Shermans and Grants." The fact was written 

 in his face. He had nothing either of the vieux 

 ionze or of the smart, metallic, business man- 

 ner of the arriviste. His civic courage was of 

 the highest order. l!^ot even the ofier of 

 Henoch's chair in Berlin could induce him to 

 give up the ideals of his fiery youth, or to 

 desert the country of his adoption, a sign that 

 real character does not change : Genio y figura, 

 hasta la muerte. One was frequently im- 

 pressed with his facial likeness to the novelist 

 TurgeniefF, who, in a less personal and forth- 

 right way, was also a protagonist of civil and 

 personal liberty, and in whom there was the 

 same elusive irony and spontaneity of thought. 

 One recalls the immortal words pronounced by 

 Eenan in the Gare du ISTord over the bier of 

 the great Russian, once defined as " the best 

 that human nature is capable of " : 

 , n flit d 'une race par sa mani&re de seutir et de 

 peindre; il appartenait a I'humanitg tout enti&re 

 par une haute philosophie, envisageant d'un ceil 

 ferme les conditions de 1 'existence humaine et 

 cherehant sans parti pris a savoir la reality. 

 Cette philosophie aboutissait ehez lui a la douceur, 

 a. la joie de vivre, a la pitig, chez les creatures, 

 pour les victimes surtout. Cette pauvre humanity, 

 souvent aveugle assur^ment, mais si souvent aussi 

 trahie par ses chefs, il 1 'aimait ardemment. II ap- 

 plaudissait a son effort spontan^ vers le bien et le 

 vrai. ... La politique de fer qui raille ceux que 

 scuff rent n'gtait pas la sienne. Aueune deception 

 ne I'arrgtait. Comme I'univers, il eflt recom- 

 mence mille fois I'oeuvre manqu§e; il savait que la 

 justice peut attendre.s 



As a soldier of the common good, as one to 

 whom thousands of mothers and children in 

 his city owe so much, it needs but the slightest 



2 E. Renan, "Adieu a TourguSnieff, " October 1, 

 1883. 



alteration of the poet's lines to define what 

 Jacobi stood for: 



Duty divine and Thought with eyes of fire. 

 Still following Eighteousness with deep desire 

 Shone sole and stern before him and above 

 Sure stars and sole to steer by; but more sweet 

 Shone lower the loveliest lamp for earthly feet — 

 The light of little children, and their love. 



F. H. Garrison 



Armt Medical Museum 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE BRITISH SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS 

 EXHIBITIONi 



The second British Scientific Products Ex- 

 hibition promoted by the British Science 

 Guild was opened at the Central Hall, West- 

 minster, on July 3, and it will remain access- 

 ible to the public until August 5. It will be 

 remembered that the first exhibition was held 

 in King's College last August, but owing to 

 the arrangements of the college, due to de- 

 mobilization, it was found impossible to hold 

 the present exhibition there. Last year's ex- 

 hibition was afterwards transferred to Man- 

 chester, and it proved eminently successful in 

 carrying into the provinces a knowledge of the 

 recent achievements of British science and 

 industry. 



This year's exhibition was declared opened 

 by the Marquess of Crewe in the presence of a 

 representative company of scientific and tech- 

 nical workers. In his opening address Lord 

 Sydenham, who occupied the chair, referred at 

 some length to the important part played by 

 British science and industry in the victory 

 which has so recently crowned the Allied ef- 

 forts. We proved ourselves superior to the 

 enemy in every technical art, and but for the 

 splendid cooperation of the leaders of science 

 and industry our Army would have fought in 

 vain. 



In declaring the exhibition opened the Mar- 

 quess of Crewe emphasized the difference be- 

 tween the present exhibition and the one held 

 at King's College last year. The latter took 

 place at a time when the result of the war was 



1 From Nature. 



