SCIENCE. 
Hucenye* 4 
Siac 
Fray, SEPTEMBER 6, 1918 
CONTENTS 
Richard Rathbun: Dz. Marcus BENJAMIN ... 231 
The Olona, Hawaii’s Unexcelled Fiber-plant: 
Dr. VAUGHAN MAcCAUGHEY .........+-+- 236 
The Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the 
State University of Iowa: Proressor C. C. 
MUGRPTIERTG Bloseiesd wel s40d oad 2's Sle OS ale Soa ese eist AGO 
Scientific Events :— 
The Journal of the American Ceramic So- 
ciety; English Vital Statistics ; War Commit- 
tee of Technical Societies; The Need for 
Nutrition Officers in Military Camps ...... 240 
Scientific Notes and News ..............+-+. 243 
University and Educational News ........... 247 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
The Prevention of Rope in Bread: Pro- 
FESSOR LAWRENCE J. HENDERSON. A Micro- 
scopic Trap: PRroressor ALBERT M, REESE. 
A Night Rainbow: Dr. Davip RIESMANN .. 247 
Scientific Books :— 
Allen on South America: Dr. Joun C. 
PESTEAMTTRICADY. Atle atcie svotste aiarccle citra o's'e iene there © 249 
Patent Reform Prospects: BERT RUSSELL .... 250 
Special Articles :— 
Polarization in the Case of Moving Elec- 
trodes: Proressor Cart Barus 253 
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review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. 
RICHARD RATHBUN 
AMERICAN science has lost one of its dis- 
tinguished authorities on invertebrate zoology, 
and the United States National Museum its 
honored chief by the death of Richard Rath- 
bun in the city of Washington early on the 
morning of July 16, 1918. 
Richard Rathbun was born in Buffalo, 
N. Y., on January 25, 1852, and there studied 
in the public schools until he reached the age 
of fifteen years, when he entered the service of 
a firm of contractors, with which he remained 
for four years, acquiring a thorough knowl- 
edge of business methods, that was of special 
value to him during his later years. 
At that time, attracted by the specimens of 
fossils that abound in western New York, he 
began the study of paleontology to which he 
assiduously devoted his evenings and holidays. 
The collection in the Museum of the Buffalo 
Society of Natural Sciences was made by him 
and he was appointed curator of that subject 
with charge of its collections by the society. 
In 1871, he met Charles Fred. Hartt, then 
professor of geology at Cornell University and 
a pupil of the elder Agassiz, who persuaded 
him to give up business pursuits and devote 
himself to science. Young Rathbun accord- 
ingly entered Cornell and followed the regular 
academic course with the class of ’75, special- 
izing, however, in geology and paleontology. 
The collections of Devonian and Cretaceous 
fossils previously obtained by Hartt in Brazil 
were assigned to him to work up and resulted 
in the publication of his first paper: “On the 
Devonian Brachiopoda of Ereré, Province of 
Para, Brazil,” in the Bulletin of the Buffalo 
Society of Natural Sciences for 1874 followed 
by a “Preliminary Report on the Cretaceous 
Lamellibranchs collected in the Vicinity of 
Pernambuco, Brazil,” in the Proceedings of 
1 Vol. 1, pp. 236-261. 
