October 2, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



479 



Professor Charles Ladan Adams, professor 

 of drawing and descriptive geometry in the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died 

 at Antwerp, on September 16, following an 

 operation for appendicitis. 



Dr. W. H. Gaskell, F.E.S., university lec- 

 turer in physiology at Cambridge University, 

 has died at the age of sixty-six years. 



Nature records the death of Mr. H. M. 

 Freear, chemical assistant at the Woburn Ex- 

 perimental Farm and pot-culture station of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society, and a lead- 

 ing authority upon the relation of pot-culture 

 experiments to practical agriculture and horti- 

 culture. 



Professor B. Alfred Bertheim, member 

 of the Georg Speyer Haus in Frankfort a M., 

 being drawn to join his regiment, lost his life 

 on August lY at Berlin, in consequence of an 

 accident, at the age of 35 years. The Ohem- 

 ische Zeitschrift relates that besides work in 

 alkyl combinations of thallium (with Pro- 

 fessor E. J. Meyer) and hydrates of molyb- 

 dic acid (with Professor Rosenhinn) he has 

 published numerous articles, partly with Pro- 

 fessor Ehrlich and Dr. Benda, on nitro- and 

 aminophenyl arsenic acid and their deriva- 

 tives, on p-aminophenolarsenic oxide, diam- 

 ino arsenobenzyoles and their derivatives. 

 Professor Ehrlich writes in the Franhfurter 

 Zeitung, that to Bertheim belongs the distinc- 

 tion of having accomplished the synthesis of 

 salvarsan. Lately there has appeared from 

 his pen an exhaustive " Manual of Organic 

 Arsenic-combinations." 



The London Times reports the death at 

 Sedbergh, of Mr. William Erasmus Darwin, 

 aged seventy-four. He was the oldest son 

 of Charles Darwin, and to his birth may be 

 attributed the origin of a notable department 

 of his father's researches. In his autobiog- 

 raphy Charles Darwin says : " My first child 

 was born on December 2Y, 1839, and I at once 

 commenced to make notes on the first dawn 

 of the various expressions which he exhibited, 

 for I felt convinced, even at this early period, 

 that the most complex and fine shades of ex- 

 pression must all have had a gradual and nat- 



ural origin." These notes were intended to 

 furnish a chapter of " The Descent of Man," 

 but the importance of the subject ultimately 

 demanded a separate volume — " Expressions 

 of the Emotions in Man and Animals," pub- 

 lished in 18Y2. Four sons of Charles Darwin 

 have attained scientific distinction. 



A GIFT of £20,000 has been promised to Lon- 

 don Hospital by Mrs. E. S. Paterson for 

 cardiac research work. 



Business and finance in South America are 

 so much affected by the war in Europe that 

 the Chilean minister at Washington has been 

 officially notified that the Pan-American 

 Congress of University Students will not be 

 held at Santiago. It is said that several 

 delegates from the United States are on their 

 way to Chili. 



Instead of inaugurating a department of 

 health for Canada, it has been decided that the 

 Canadian Conservation Commission shall look 

 after all health matters in the Dominion. In 

 August the first number of a bulletin was 

 issued to doctors, teachers and others inter- 

 ested in public health work, and will, there- 

 after, continue to be issued each month. 



The Comite des Forges de France has been 

 obliged to cancel arrangements for an autumn 

 meeting of the British Iron and Steel Insti- 

 tute in France this year. In the circumstances, 

 the council of the institute has decided that 

 it would be advisable to postpone for the 

 present any alternative arrangements for an 

 autumn meeting for the reading and discus- 

 sion of papers. 



The meeting of the Fourth International 

 Congress on Home Education and the eighth 

 meeting of the American School Hygiene 

 Association scheduled for Philadelphia during 

 the last week in September were postponed. 

 It was considered unwise to hold an inter- 

 national congress at this time. This fact be- 

 came evident at such a late date as to make 

 it impossible for the American School Hygiene 

 Association to plan an effective independent 

 meeting in place of the joint meeting. The 

 next meeting of the American School Hygiene 

 Association will occur some time early in 1915. 



