SCIENCE 



Friday, March 15, 1918 



CONTENTS 



Dr. FranVUn P. Mall: an Appreciation: Db. 

 Simon Flexner 249 



Franklin Paine Mall, a Eeview of his Scien- 

 tific Achievement: Professor Florence R. 

 Sabin 254 



Scientific Events: — 



The British Committee for Scientific and 

 Industrial Sesearch; Government Control of 

 the Platinum Industry; Photographers for 

 the Signal Corps 262 



Scientific Notes and News 264 



University and Educational News 266 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Nomenclature of Thermometric Scales: 

 Dr. C. F. Marvin. Astigmatism and Coma: 

 Dk. C. W. Woodworth. The Domestication 

 of the Llama: Philip Ainsworth Means. 

 The Origin of the Custom of Tea-drinTcing in 

 China: Professor Ross Aiken Gortner. 267 



Scientific Bools: — 

 Hollingworth and Poffenberger's Applied 

 Psychology : Professor J. B. Miner 270 



Special Articles: — 

 Note on Three Devices for Use in Electrom- 

 etry: Dk. E. H. KEii*5)kM> 271 



The American Society of Pharmacology and 



Experimental Medicine 272 



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DR. FRANKLIN P. MALL: AN 

 APPRECIATION 



The death of Doctor JIall is so recent 

 and my grief for his loss so fresh that I 

 find myself reflecting on the fruitful and 

 delightful memories of our past association 

 instead of writing out my impressions of 

 his unusual personality. 



Doctor Mall came to Johns Hopkins in 

 the late summer of 1893 and just before 

 the medical school opened its doors to the 

 first class of students in the autumn. It 

 was there that we met. I recall vividly my 

 excitement and nervousness when the 

 riimor was circulated about the old patho- 

 logical building that Mall had arrived. 

 His name had been a tradition among the 

 small group in the department of pathology. 

 A few .years earlier, before the hospital had 

 been opened to patients, he had come to 

 the laboratory and as fellow in pathology 

 had performed a miracle of interesting and 

 important studies on the connective tissue 

 foundations of the organs. Fellows in 

 pathology there had been since hLs time, 

 but no one whose memory was glorified 

 as Mall's had been. We had so often 

 heard him and his work spoken of by 

 Doctor Welch, Doctor Halsted, and others, 

 including the indispensable Schultz, who 

 was for many years presiding genius over 

 the technical and janitorial services of the 

 laboratories and whose commendation car- 

 ried with us such great weight, that I 

 pictured JIall as quite different from what 

 in actual life he proved to be. 



One's fancy — my fancy surely was so — 

 when j'oung is apt to produce its own pic- 

 tures. In mj' fanciful portrait of Mall I 

 represented him as large, absorbed, and 



