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sented facts to the various sections, while the 

 older men gave a larger share of their atten- 

 tion to the analysis of facts accumulated by 

 others, combining results from various sources 

 for the bracing or demolishing of hypotheses. 

 It may be claimed that the right to speculate 

 has been earned by the professors through 

 years of hard work, and it is true that judg- 

 ment comes with years. But the question oc- 

 curs to me whether what may after all be a 

 rarer kind of ability is not unduly discrimi- 

 nated against by the custom of demanding of 

 all candidates for higher degrees in science 

 " contributions " that are essentially accumu- 

 lations of new data. Do we not need to recog- 

 nize that there are at least possible " contri- 

 butions " of value for the advancement of 

 science that do not consist chiefly of new 

 facts? 



Benj. 0. Gruenbeeg 

 DeWitt Clinton High School, 

 New York 



January 1, 1910 



WHY PAWLOW? 



To THE Editor of Science: In the interest- 

 ing address of Professor Howell's published in 

 Science of January 21, 1910, I note a refer- 

 ence to the work of " Pawlow " on entero- 

 kinase. Perhaps it is too late in the day to 

 protest against this spelling, but it seems to 

 the writer that even should our physiologists 

 concede their science to be " made in Ger- 

 many," certainly our language is not. There 

 are certain obvious rules for the translitera- 

 tion of Russian names that have been in ef- 

 fect since such transliteration began to be 

 done. But of late there appears to be a ten- 

 dency to ape the Germans in this regard. 

 Vladivostok now masquerades on many maps 

 as Wladivostok. But if Pawlow, why not 

 " Saratow," or " Orlow " or " Trepow " or 

 " Popow" ? Even Minerva which no one ever 

 accused of being un-Teutonic in its make-up, 

 uses the spelling Pavlov throughout. What 

 reader of contemporary history would recog- 

 nize the name of the famous Russian diplo- 

 mat, Pavloff, if he read that one Pawlow was 

 some time minister to Korea? Surely our 



orthography is bewildering enough as it stands 

 without wantonly importing foreign absurdi- 

 ties into it. 



J. F. Abbott 



the NORWOOD " METEORITE " 



To THE Editor op Science: Professor Very 

 in his second article on the Norwood " meteor- 

 ite " (Science, March 18, 1910, pp. 415-418) 

 states that I helped him identify some of the 

 minerals in thin section. I did identify the 

 minerals, but, as is apparent to any petrog- 

 rapher, I am in no way guilty of the extinc- 

 tion angles recorded by Professor Very, or of 

 the novel method of determining the composi- 

 tion of the feldspar. The feldspar is labra- 

 dorite, but I did not attempt to find its exact 

 composition. 



G. F. LOUGHLIN 



8CIENTIPIG BOOKS 

 Die Bieiien Afrilcas nach dem Stande unserer 

 heutigen Eenntnisse. Von Dr. H. Friese. 

 Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergeb- 

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 Jahren 1903-1905, mit Unterstiitzung der 

 Ivgl. Preuss. Akad. d. Wiss. zu Berlin von 

 Dr. Leonhard Schultze. 2 Bd. 475 pp., 

 2 pll., 19 charts and 1 text. fig. Jena, Gus- 

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