June 4, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



559 



Pamphlets and Periodicals in the Library of 

 the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

 This catalogue raisonne, in which the late 

 Brother Potamian collaborated with Mr. 

 Weaver was published in two handsome vol- 

 umes in 1909 and stands as a monument to 

 Mr. "Weaver's learning and taste. 



It is believed that Mr. Weaver was the first 

 to lay before the late Andrew Carnegie a plan 

 for a home for the engineering societies in 

 New York City which later resulted in the 

 Engineering Societies' Building and the Engi- 

 neers' Club. 



A French scholar and an admirer of French 

 achievements in science and much in French 

 literature, Mr. Weaver was a collector for many 

 years of books, pamphlets and pictures relating 

 to the French Revolution. It is said that few 

 private collections in the United States of 

 books relating to the French Revolution were 

 more complete than his. At one time he vprote 

 about Paris: 



I feel more at home in that city than in any 

 other in the world, on ax^connt protoajbly of my first 

 impressions of the real world having been received 

 there. 



But Lieutenant Weaver was nevertheless a 

 tihorough American. During the Spanish- 

 American war of 1898 he served as volunteer 

 chief engineer on the TJ. S. S. Glacier. In 

 1915, after his retirement, he was asked to be- 

 come a mem'ber of the Naval Advisory Board, 

 but declined on account of his health. 



After taking up his home in Charlottesville 

 Mr. Weaver became at once at home in the 

 scholastic atmosphere of the University of Vir- 

 ginia. It is reported that he was offered a 

 place on the faculty of this university a few 

 years ago. Some time before his death Mr. 

 Weaver gave nearly his entire collection of 

 technical books to the University of Virginia. 



An independent thinker, Mr. Weaver was 

 tenacious in adhering to his opinions, although 

 quiet and pleasant in manner and not vocifer- 

 ous in advancing his views. He felt strongly 

 that cultural studies should not be neglected 

 in technical education, and deplored a purely 

 materialistic attitude in schools of engineering. 



Mr. Weaver was one of the founders of the 

 Illuminating Engineering Society and also of 

 the American Electrochemical Society. He 

 served for three years as manager of each. He 

 had also much to do with the formation of the 

 Commission on Resuscitation from Electric 

 Shock. He was a member of the Societe In- 

 ternationale des Electriciens and had been hon- 

 ored by the French government as an officer 

 de I'Instruction Publique. 

 J With an acute distaste for public appear- 

 ances, Mr. Weaver found his greatest pleasure 

 in his home and library. His home life was 

 ideal. In 1900 he married Miss Mildred Nie- 

 buhr and the union was blessed with six chil- 

 dren. He had been a sufferer from heart 

 trouble and passed away in his sleep. 



William E. Keilt 



STATE GRANTS FOR SCIENTIFIC 

 INVESTIGATIONS IN ENGLAND 



A JOINT deputation from the British Med- 

 ical Association and the British Science 

 Guild waited upon the Right Hon. A. J. Bal- 

 four, Lord President of the Council, at the 

 offices of the Privy Council on March 2, to 

 place before him certain considerations with 

 regard to state awards for scientific research. 



According to the report in The British 

 Medical Journal Sir Watson Cheyne said 

 that the object of the deputation was to bring 

 forward the question of state awards for 

 scientific work after such work had been done. 

 Scientific workers were assisted by scholar- 

 ships and so forth while doing their work, 

 but after it was done there was at present no 

 provision for them, although, excited by the 

 interest of their investigation, they had often 

 neglected to make any provision for them- 

 selves. Moreover, it was the tradition that a 

 scientific man should immediately publish his 

 discoveries, making no attempt to conceal any 

 knowledge in order to secure personal advan- 

 tage. 



Sir Clifford Allbutt, president of the Brit- 

 ish Medical Association, referred in partic- 

 ular to the conditions under which medical 

 men worked. Those conditions were gov- 

 erned by the very high-standard of ethics 



