The San Francisco call., 1904-03-09

BERKELEY, March s.-The list of
men engaged to participate in the ac-
tivities of the next summer school at
the University of California, which was
completed at the university to-day, re-
veals that there will be brought to-
gether at this session some of the most
distinguished scientists and scholars
in the world. No such gathering of
world famous men has ever been prom
ised before to any summer school and
1t is doubtful if any such fortuitous
circumstances as controlled this year
will occur again to draw these leaders
of thought into so close communion.
In securing the services of these men
President Wheeler and DR.. Leon j.
Richardson, dean-elect for the sum-
mer school, have been helped material
ly by fortune, though they are entitled
to all credit for their initiative and
bold enterprise.
First of all there will come to the
session five men distinguished for their
achievements in five separate lines of
scientific investigation, all of them men
with regulations for discoveries hav-
ing important bearing on subjects af-
fecting human existence. Then there
is a group of scholars and teachers
Of history such as could not be found
elsewhere in the United States, four
men whose researches have done much
to revolutionize the story of the past
and to defend it with the weapons of
science. And besides these nine men
there will be thirty-four others, some
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California; some of them leaders in
their work. but most of them men of
growing regulations.
LEADERS IN SCIENCE.
In Sir William Ramsay of England,
Professor Hugo de vries of Holland.
Professor Svante August Arrhenius Of
Sweden, Professor James Ward of Eng
land and DR.. Jacques Loeb the sum
mer school will have the five most dis
tinguished scientists. Sir William Ram
say is the greatest chemist and 1t is
upon the gases of the air, of which
he is the discoverer of several, that
he will deal with in his lectures here.
He is interested in radium and just
now is engaged upon some important
experiments with the newly discovered
element. He has already obtained a
remarka BILE result, which he says must
be regarded as transmuta tion-the
changing of gas evolved from radium
salts into helium.
Professor de Vries is the greatest
botanist and a member of the faculty
of the University of Amsterdam, Hol-
land. He has been very successful in
some recent experiments with the prim-
rose, and his deductions go to prove
the theories of the origin of species.
He has already provided the university
with lot of primrose seeds which he
will use in his demonstrations
Professor Svante Arrhenius holds
the honor of being the first physicist
He fills the chair of general physics at
the University of Stockholm, besides
which he is at the head of the National
Serum Institute of that country. His
first work of distinction was the publi-
cation of his electrolytic dissertation
theory, an explanation of the manner
in which electricity separates many
substances into their elements. OF late
he has been applying himself to the ap-
plication of serum to the cure of dis
eases, and his results in this direction
he offers to give to the students at the
summer school.
ATTAINMENTS NOTEWORTHY.
Professor James Ward ranks as the
leading psychologist of the world. He
is a fellow of Trinity College and pro-