SCIENCE 



Friday, March 22, 1918. 



CONTENTS 

 Theodore Caldwell Janeway : Lewellys F. 

 Barker 273 



The Need for Organization of American 

 Botanists for More Effective Prosecution 

 of War Work : Dr. G. B. Ltman 279 



Scientific Events: — 



English Vital Statistics; Standard Time at 

 Sea; Meeting of Petroleum Geologists; Ee- 

 search Information Committee 285 



Scientific Notes and News 289 



Vniversity and Educational News 290 



Disctiss^ion and Correspondence : — 



The Aurora Borealis: W. Tomlinson; C. 

 M. Smith 291 



Scientific Books: — 



Van Duzee's Catalogue of Hemiptera: Dr. 



H. M. Parshley 292 



Special Articles: — 

 Seporting Moisture Results: PRorESSOR H. 

 A. Notes 293 



The Federation of American Societies for Ex- 

 perimental Biology; The American Physio- 

 logical Society: Professor Chas. W. 

 Greene 29-5 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to 'fhe Editor i.f Science, Gamson-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



THEODORE CALDWELL JANEWAY 



Theodore Caldwell Jaxeway, phj-si- 

 cian, educator, and medical investigator, 

 was born in New York on November 2, 

 1872, and died in Baltimore, at the age of 

 forty-five, on December 27, 1917. He was 

 the son of the late Dr. Edward Gamaliel 

 Janeway and his wife Frances Strong 

 Rogers Janeway. 



Dr. Edward Gamaliel Janeway, a dis- 

 tinguished consulting internist in New 

 York City, was a man of large experience 

 in medical practise and in medical teach- 

 ing. Though he published but little, his 

 opinion was highly valued and commanded 

 the respect and attention of the best med- 

 ical workers in his city and in the country 

 at large. An accurate clinical obsen^er, 

 he laid great stress upon the control of 

 clinical studies in fatal cases by post-mor- 

 tem examinations. Direct and simple in his 

 methods he attained to unusual proficiency 

 in clinical diagnosis, especially from the 

 standpoint of pathological anatomy. He 

 was rather taciturn, and was scrupulously 

 honest with himself and with others. Like 

 manj^ men who are diffident by nature, he 

 may have seemed outwardly austere when 

 inwardly he was full of human sympathy 

 and affection. Strongly objective in tend- 

 ency and with relatively little interest in, 

 or patience with, mere theory, he was un- 

 willing to go beyond ascertainable facts, 

 and preferred to confess ignorance rather 

 than to assume a knowledge that he did 

 not possess. His reputation grew with the 

 j^ears, and patients, especially those suffer- 

 ing from rare and puzzling diseases, from 

 all parts of the United States were by their 

 home physicians referred to him for ex- 



