September 22, 1916] 



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ard, and Dr. F. L. Pyman were elected as new 

 ordinary members of council. 



The Chemists' Club of New York announces 

 the establishment of another scholarship fund, 

 the income from which, approximately $400 

 per year, is to be devoted to assisting finan- 

 cially deserving young men to obtain educa- 

 tion in the field of industrial chemistry or 

 chemical engineering. This scholarship has 

 been endowed by Mr. Win. F. Hoffmann. Its 

 benefits will be open to properly qualified ap- 

 plicants without restriction as to residence, 

 and may be effective at any institution in the 

 United States which may be designated or 

 approved by the Chemists' Club. In accord- 

 ance with the deed of trust applicants must, as 

 a minimum qualification, have completed a 

 satisfactory high-school training involving 

 substantial work in elementary chemistry, 

 physics and mathematics and present a certifi- 

 cate showing that they have passed the en- 

 trance examination requirements of the Col- 

 lege Entrance Examination Board or its 

 equivalent. Preference will be given to young 

 men who have supplemented these minimum 

 qualifications with additional academic work, 

 especially in subjects which will form a suit- 

 able foundation for the more advanced study 

 of applied chemistry and chemical engineer- 

 ing. All inquiries should be addressed to the 

 Hoffmann Scholarship Committee of the Chem- 

 ists' Club, 50 East 41st Street, New York City. 

 Applications for the next academic year should 

 be in the hands of the committee on or before 

 June 1, 1917. The scholarship will be awarded 

 and candidates selected and notified on or be- 

 fore July 1. 



In his anniversary address to the Society of 

 Antiquaries, the president, Sir Arthur Evans, 

 made the following observations: 



I am well aware that the question of the expul- 

 sion, or at least suspension, of German honorary 

 members of this and other learned societies in this 

 country is in the air. There seems, at the same 

 time, to be a general consensus of opinion that if 

 any action in this matter be considered desirable it 

 should be taken in common. To this end your 

 council have empowered me to submit proposals on 

 their behalf. But I will not attempt to conceal 



from the society my own feelings on this grave 

 matter. . . . The existence among German honorary 

 fellows of savants belonging to that noble class 

 of which the late Dr. Helbig stood forth as a con- 

 spicuous example — to whom the brotherhood of 

 science was a bond at least as great as that of 

 nationality and language — should give us pause 

 before we carry out any too sweeping measures. 

 In spite of the ' ' Gospel of Hate, ' ' let it be said to 

 their credit, the learned societies and academies of 

 Germany, with inconsiderable exceptions, have re- 

 frained from striking their English members from 

 their rolls. In spite of official pressure, the Acad- 

 emy of Berlin has twice refused to take this ac- 

 tion. I myself am not ashamed of confessing that 

 I have received, in the period of the war itself, 

 cordial and even unsolicited assistance from a Ger- 

 man archeologist, occupying a high official position. 

 ... In these times of intolerable provocation we, 

 and members of kindred societies, who stand on 

 the neutral ground of science have a high duty to 

 perform. That there should be a serious and pro- 

 longed estrangement of the peoples of the British 

 commonwealth from those of the German empire 

 has become inevitable. But this does not affect 

 the immutable condition of all branches of re- 

 search, which is their essential interdependence. 

 We have not ceased to share a common task with 

 those who to-day are our enemies. We can not 

 shirk the fact that to-morrow we shall be once 

 more laborers together in the same historic field. 

 It is incumbent on us to do nothing which should 

 shut the door to mutual intercourse in subjects like 

 our own, which lie apart from the domain of hu- 

 man passions, in the silent avenues of the past. 



We learn from the British Medical Journal 

 that the museum of the French army medical 

 service installed at the Val-de-Grace military 

 hospital under the direction of Professor 

 Jacob, was recently formally opened by M. 

 Justin Godard, under secretary of state of the 

 sanitary service. On the ground floor are a 

 library, an archives room, and others for speci- 

 mens, mouldings and apparatus. The first 

 floor is given up to a collection of the instru- 

 ments of destruction — bullets, shells (incen- 

 diary, shrapnel, asphyxiating and explosive 

 gases), aerial torpedoes, Zeppelin and aeroplane 

 bombs — used by the Germans; alongside these 

 are specimens of protective apparatus (hel- 

 mets and masks). Then comes a miniature 

 exposition of sanitary cantonments, special 



