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Paris, entitled "Etudes de Photochimie " par 

 Victor Henri. The front page of the book 

 bears this further legend: Professor Henri, 

 formerly assistant director of the "Ecole des 

 Hautes Etudes" (Sorbonne), and much to 

 my amazement at present " Directeur de lab- 

 oratoire a I'Institut scientifique de Moseou." 

 I open the book with curiosity and read in 

 the preface that this great work on photo- 

 chemistry was begun by the author in Paris 

 but since the war " la photochimie fut oubliee." 

 In 1915 it was Henri's good fortune to be 

 dispatched to Russia on an official war 

 mission. Then the revolution broke out and 

 — but here I make room and let Professor 

 Henri tell his own story : 



La rSvolution russe arriva avec toutes aes phases. 

 TJn souffle de vie nouvelle se leva. Tin espoir d 'or- 

 ganization scientifique ggnerale amenant le progrfis, 

 c'est-a-dire augmentant la somme de bonheur de 

 1 'humanity, se reveilla et une pSriode de vie active 

 commenga en Russie, a laquelle je fus mel6 a Mos- 

 eou. L'Insifcitut scientifique de Moseou me donna 

 un aocueil trfes chaleureux; 1 'TJniversite de Moseou 

 m 'off rit une ehaire ; la Commission de 1 ' AcadSmie 

 des Sciences de Eussie pour 1 'etude des riehesses 

 naturellea de la Eussie me demanda d'etre le sec- 

 retaire scientifique de la section de Moseou. 



S. MoRGULlS 



The Creighton Univeksitt, 

 Omaha 



CONCERNjING OUR RELATIONS WITH TEU- 

 TONIC SCIENTISTS 



To THE Editor of Science : I fear that Pro- 

 fessor Henry Fairfield Osborn's letter in 

 Science, June 4, 1920, quoting from and 

 commenting upon letters from my esteemed 

 friend Arrhenius and another colleague, will 

 convey to many readers an erroneous im- 

 pression in one very important particular, 

 namely: that there are scientists in the 

 entente countries who would restrict the 

 interchange of publications with scientists in 

 the Teutonic countries. If there are any 

 such entente scientists, I have not heard of 

 them. I can safely parallel Professor Osborn's 

 statement, " We paleontologists welcome the 

 works of Othenio Abel," by saying that ''"We 

 astronomers welcome the works of Struve 



(Berlin) and von Hepperger (Vienna) ; we 

 shall read these works as carefully as we have 

 read those issued by them in 1913 and earlier; 

 and as soon as peace is declared we shall un- 

 reservedly do our part in arranging that 

 Struve and von Hepperger and their col- 

 leagues receive the published writings of 

 American astronomers. 



In the relief of present-day distress and 

 suffering in enemy nations, to which the 

 quoted Stockholm and Vienna letters refer, 

 I feel sure that all American scientists are 

 glad to contribute in accordance with their 

 abilities, and without question as to what 

 occurred in 1914^18. I doubt if any appeal 

 for assistance from this country has been 

 made in vain. 



There still remains the question of personal 

 relationships in the future. Professor Osborn 

 has quoted from one of the European letters 

 as follows : " . . . every German believed [in 

 IQH] a war would he much cheaper than the 

 steadily increasing military expenses." This 

 undoubtedly assumed, on the part of "every 

 German," that the war would be short, that 

 Germany would win it, and that Serbia, 

 France, and Russia would pay the bills! In 

 this precise connection should the world be 

 permitted to forget that Germany woiild not 

 consent to a reduction of armaments when 

 the other nations at the Second Hague Con- 

 ference in 1907, made and urged this proposal ? 



Professor Foerster, of the University of 

 Munich, was quoted throughout the world 

 early in 1919 about as follows : " We Germans 

 have only ourselves to blame for the moral 

 ilockade which hems us in, and the raising of 

 this blockade depends upon ourselves alone." 

 Whether the quotation is correct or not, it 

 faithfully represents widely prevailing opin- 

 ion in entente scientific circles. 



W. W. Campbell 



Mount Hamilton, 

 June 11, 1920 



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During the last thirty years the feeling has 

 become increasingly insistent, both in this 



