Ja.vuakt 11, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



37 



CONCLUDING STATEMENT 



This World War probably will cost hun- 

 dreds of thousands, and it may cost mil- 

 lions of our men. It will require many 

 billions of our treasure. This will put a 

 hea\y burden upon succeeding generations. 

 The dreadful costs of the war we must 

 bear. Should we not therefore gain every- 

 thing possible from the experiences of the 

 war? The vast savings due to more scien- 

 tific production and distribution, if con- 

 tinued after the war, will in large measure, 

 indeed, they may completely, carry not 

 only the interest load imposed upon us, but 

 even furnish a certain amount each year 

 toward the liquidation of the principal. 

 Withoiit being able to demonstrate it, I be- 

 lieve it probable, that if, following the 

 war, wise governmental regulation is con- 

 tinued for essential commodities as well as 

 the utilities, the savings of the people may 

 be sufficient to meet the money cost of the 

 war. Nothing can compensate for the 

 losses in men. 



Charles R. Van Hise 



Universitt op Wisconsin 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



AMOS PEASLEE brown 



Resolutions were passed at the last meet- 

 ing of the faculty of the Towns Scientific 

 School of the University of Pennsylvania on 

 the death of Professor Amos P. Brown as 

 follows : 



Whereas : In the death of Amos Peaalee Browii, 

 for many years the professor of mineralogy and 

 geology in the Towne Scientific School, the un7 

 versity has lost an honored and able scholar and 

 original investigator; the faculty of the Towns 

 Scientific School wishes to record its sense of the 

 loss to this faculty and to the university, and to 

 express also its sympathy to Professor Brown 's 

 family. 



Amos Peaslee Brown was born in Germantown, 

 December 3, 1864. He graduated from the 

 Towne Scientific School in 1886, with the degree 



of Bachelor of Science; he received the degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy in 1893. He subsequently 

 became by advancement through various grades 

 professor of mineralogy and geology in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, holding this position until 

 his retirement in the winter of 1916-17. 



Dr. Brown was a man who by his fine personal 

 character and high aims, and by his lovable dispo- 

 sition won warm and enduring friendships. His 

 work while well known among scientific men did 

 not attract publicity; he did not wish that it 

 should, he was rather of the scholarly type which 

 quietly, studiously and accurately pursues his 

 chosen field. By reason of his philosophic and 

 analytic mind, Dr. Brown was able to make spe- 

 cific application of his knowledge to the problems 

 of other fields of science besides his more immedi- 

 ate one of the geological sciences. 



His work carried him into the laboratory and 

 field alike. He was the first geologist to visit and 

 report on the geological formations of considerable 

 general geological importance. He was at inter- 

 vals connected with the Second Geological Survey 

 of Pennsylvania. His papers cover a wide reach 

 of general and specific scientific character. 



Among the most notable recent investigations in 

 America was the work done by Professor Brown 

 in the field of crystallography; specifically the in- 

 vestigations in the classes of crystals found in the 

 hemoglobins of the entire range of the vertebrate 

 animals. In the course of this investigation Dr. 

 Brown prepared, examined and calculated the func- 

 tions of thousands of intricate and minute crystals, 

 deducing from them conclusions highly important 

 alike to organic and inorganic science. This 

 work, carried out in collaboration with Professor 

 Eeichert, of this university, is one of the greatest 

 contributions to exact science ever made in this 

 country and is a lasting adornment to the fame of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. 



This faculty, therefore, in the realization of the 

 loss to the entire university in the untimely deatH 

 of their late colleague, passes this resolution of 

 its appreciation of the man and of the loss to the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



WORK OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COM- 

 MITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS' 



In March, 1917, the committee arranged, in 

 conjimction with the National Research Coun- 



1 From the annual report of the executive com- 

 mittee of the National Advisory Committee for 

 Aeronautics. 



