June 4, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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University of Liverpool as a contribution, to 

 the appeal for funds. 



Ten members are reported by tbe Journal 

 of the American Association to have resigned 

 from the faculty of the Marquette University 

 School of Medicine on account of a disagree- 

 ment between them and the president over 

 several ethical questions, one of which is that 

 of sacrificing an unborn infant when nec- 

 essary to save the life of the mother. 



Professor J. H. Clo, of Tulane University, 

 has accepted the position of professor and 

 head of the department of physics at the Uni- 

 versity of Pittsburgh. 



Dr. Hiram Byrd, now of the University of 

 Mississippi, has accepted an invitation to be- 

 come head of a new department of hygiene to 

 be established at the University of Alabama. 



Leo F. Pierce, professor of chemistry at 

 Washburn College, has resigned to work for 

 a doctor's degree at Tulane University. 



Dr. Charles Louis Mis has accepted the 

 position of head of the department of medi- 

 cine of Loyola University School of Medicina 



DISCUSSION A\ND CORRESPONDENCE 



RENEWAL OF OUR RELATIONS WITH THE 

 SCIENTIFIC MEN OF EUROPE 



To THE Editor of Science : A flood of pub- 

 lications is now coming in from all parts of 

 Europe, especially from the long pent-up 

 workers of France, of Austria, and of Ger- 

 many, as well as in lesser degree from those 

 of Great Britain and the Scandinavian coim- 

 tries. The German and French publications 

 are as elegant in form and appearance as of 

 old. The Austrian publications show very 

 stringent conditions. 



Arrangements are being made for coming 

 scientific congresses and meetings. Certainly 

 so far as science is related to human progress 

 and welfare, it was never more widely needed 

 all over Europe or all over the world than at 

 the present moment. Certainly no one would 

 shut off a British discovery, which would 

 double the productive value of wheat, from 

 the people of the ancient Central Empires. 



Certainly also any discovery made by savants 

 of the Central Empires, which would mitigate 

 human suffering or extend our knowledge, 

 should be immediately transmitted to the 

 people of the former Allied Powers. I, for 

 one, am in favor of renewing scientific rela- 

 tions with the people of all countries of the 

 world irrespective of whether they have been 

 fighting with or against me in the great war 

 for civilization. On this subject we have 

 recently received very wise counsel from an 

 entirely neutral party, Svante Arrhenius and 

 his confreres. I may also quote from a letter 

 of January 12, 1920, received from Arrhenius: 



I was very glad to ree&ive your kind letter of 

 December 3. I am in the highest degree thankful 

 to you for your decision to keep uip the perfect in- 

 ternationality of the Eugenics Congress. Now 

 France and England have peace with Germany, and 

 in old times it was always written in the peace 

 treaties that the contracting parties should live on 

 the best footing for the time to come. . . . Before 

 the war the situation in Europe was one cause of 

 the expensive armaments such that every German 

 believed a (short) war would be much oheaper than 

 the steadily increasing military expenses. 



In Austria the common expression was, "Lieber 

 ein Ende mat Elend, als ein Elend ohne Ende. " 

 Now they have in reality the "Ende mit Elend." 

 People are starving to death, many thousands 

 every day. The children are infected with tuber- 

 culosis. The professors have their salaries of 

 12,000 kronen, which is now about 100 doUars, a 

 year. The institutions are not heated. Series of 

 experiments, which have taken many years, must 

 be given up. The better classes are giving their 

 clothes and their family relics for getting some 

 foodstuffs from the jjeasants, who do not take the 

 valueless paper money. The coal mines, which be- 

 longed to the companies in Vienna, have been given 

 to the peasants of the state of Bohemia, which is 

 according to leltters from a Bohemian patriot 

 under a bolshevist government, enriching itself 

 and its friends through bribery. No coals are sent 

 to Vienna, which is beset by starvation and cold. 

 What have these old agreeable people in Vienna 

 committed that they should be extirpated. . . . 



From one of the most eminent men in 

 Vienna, in fact, one of the most brilliant men 

 in his subject in Europe, a colleague has 

 received the following: 



