NoveMBER 8, 1918] 
Dr. ArtHur M. Parper, professor of chem- 
istry at Tarkio College, has been appointed 
professor of chemistry’ at Washington and 
Jefferson College, Washington, Pa. 
Tue following appointments have been made 
in the engineering departments at Lafayette 
College: H. S. Rogers, of the faculty of the 
University of Washington, has been appointed 
assistant professor of civil engineering; Ralph 
S. Wilbur, a graduate of Tufts College and a 
former member of the faculty at Iowa State 
University, more recently employed by the 
Ford Instrument Company, has been ap- 
pointed assistant professor of mechanical en- 
gineering; H. M. Spandau, of Whitman Col- 
lege, Washington, has been made assistant 
professor in engineering drawing. Charles A. 
Aey, professor in physics at Allegheny College 
last year, has been appointed instructor in 
physics; Landon A. Sarver, a private in the 
Chemical Gas Warfare Service, and former 
instructor in chemistry at the Johns Hopkins 
University, has been appointed instructor in 
the department of chemistry; Walter G. 
Kleinspehn,. a graduate of Lafayette, 718, is 
also an instructor in chemistry. 
Dr. H. H. Hopeson has been appointed head 
of the department of coal-tar color chemistry 
instituted two years ago at the Huddersfield 
Technical College to provide specialized chem- 
ical teaching with research facilities for the 
sudden influx of chemists caused by the great 
development of the color industry in Hudders- 
field. Dr. Hodgson has for nearly three years 
been chief chemist to one of the largest firms 
of chemical manufacturers in England. He 
was previously head of the chemical depart- 
ment at the Northern Polytechnic Institute in 
London. 
DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 
SHALL WRITERS UPON THE BIOLOGICAL 
SCIENCES AGREE TO IGNORE SYSTEMATIC 
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE GERMAN 
LANGUAGE SINCE 1914? 
In a footnote appended to one of his latest 
papers, which appeared in the Proceedings of 
SCIENCE 
469 
the Zoological Society of London, April, 1918, 
p. 55, Sir George F. Hampson says: ‘“ No quo- 
tations from German authors published sinee 
1914 are included. ‘ Hostes humani generis.’ ” 
In the columns of Nature, issued September 
5, 1918, Lord Walsingham, using the above 
footnote as his text, suggests that “for the 
next twenty years, at least, all Germans will 
be relegated to the category of persons with 
whom honest men will decline to have any 
dealings,” and proposes that scientific men 
throughout the world shall by common con- 
sent agree to ignore all papers published in 
the German language, not as a measure of 
“vengeance,” but as a measure of “ justice.” 
He adds that the truly scientific German, 
whose labors are worthy of consideration, and 
who is actuated by sincere love of truth, ought 
to feel it no hardship to publish the results of 
his researches in English or French periodicals, 
especially in the view of the fact that edu- 
eated Germans are all more or less familiar 
with these languages. 
In justification of his position Lord Wal- 
singham points out the fact, which he, as one 
of the foremost entomologists of the world, is 
better able to aver than those less erudite, 
that in the “Catalogue of the Palearctic 
Lepidoptera,” published in 1871 by Staudinger 
& Wocke, “ precedence is improperly but delib- 
erately assigned to German names in prefer- 
ence to earlier ones given by French authors”; 
and he also reealls the persistent manner in 
which the representatives of German scientific 
societies at the meeting of the International 
Zoological Congress at Monaco in 1913 at- 
tempted to dominate the discussions, and to 
insist that German usage in matters of no- 
menclature should receive universal sanction 
“to the exclusion of all attempts to trace 
out the literary history of each species and to 
preserve for it the name bestowed by the first 
author who described or figured it.” The 
writer of these lines, who was a member of the 
First International Entomological Congress 
which met in Brussels in 1910, recalls quite 
vividly that the same pushing tendencies and 
arrogance were also displayed on that occasion 
by certain of the German delegates. 
