The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-22
PRINCE REPORTS
 ON ALPINE FLORA Valuable Contribution to the Academy of Sciences WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE Professor Lareden Is One of the Fore most and Most Energetic Phy-
 sicians In France-Unique
 IsraeIitish Ceremony.
WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE
BY PAUL VILLIERS.

Paris December 21.--(Speeial Cable.) )- Prince Roland Bonaparte, the well-known scientist and member of the Institute de France, and who is furthermore celeorat- ed for being the father of Princess Marie, who has just been married to Prince George of Greece, has presented to the Academy of Sciences an interesting re- port on Alpine flora.
 He says that the edelweiss and ether Alpine flowers, plants and shrubs are not only valuable on account of the beauty they impart to the sites where they grow, but that this special horticulture and ar boricul should be studied from the point of view of the value they may have in reforestation.
 The Prince, in conjunction with the Alpine flora congress, has established some twenty centres in the Alps where the peculiarly Alpine flora and vegetation are specially cultivated.
 A matter affecting automobilists has been decided by the Hotel Keepers Con eress sitting in Paris. Up till now auto mobilists have been allowed to use the hotel garage without any extra chdlBe being levied
 The congress has, however, now decided that all visitors that go to hotel owned by one of the members of the congress must pay for the sheltering of his auto mobile in the same manner as he mas 10 pay for his room. Another interesting question touched on by the hotel keepers in congress was that of music.
 The musical authors society have peti- tioned the hotel proprietors to give their visitors more music. The society compels the hotelers to pay royalty on each piece played. and the question between them is as to the repeal of this tax
 The society is asking the musicians to exempt them from the fees in future, but in that case the latter will not be so eager to have their pieces played and so notn' ing has at present been decided.
 Professor Lavedan, who has been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine thls year, fact that has caused much satls- faction in France, has for many years been one of the foremost and most en- ergetic French physicians. Born in Paris, he Is the son of military doctor, and chose the profession of his father.
 1t was not long before he made him self noticed for the excellence Of hls work, and in 1874 when he was 29 years old, he was elected professor of the military college at Val de Grace. Four years later he went to Augier where he be- gan his studies on malaria.
 In 1883 he returned to Paris and occu- pied for two years the chair Of military hygiene at Val de Grace. In 1891 he was made principal and then director or the .'serviee de sante'' of the Eleventh Army corps. In 1897 he left the army. He was elected member of the Academy of Medi- cine in 1893 and in 1904 a member Of the Academy of Sciences. At the time when Professor Lavedan began studies on paludean fevers no onespoke or thought of microbes Neith- CT was 1t known what caused the dreaded African levers, malaria and intermittent feyers which were formerly attributed to the emanations from swamps and marshes or the climate.
 Iavedan, while examining under mi- croscope the, blood of the patients, ob- served strange corpuscles, round, oblong or spiral. He came to the conclusion that these corpuscles, to which he gave the name of hematozaires, were the cause of paludism or malaria. The more he studied the question the more he, became convinced that he was right but when he made known his discovery 1t was not considered worthy of attention; it was even said that his hematozaire were ar- tificlal products.
 Today the hematozaire of Professor Iavedan is known throughout the whole world, and 1t Is recognized that 1t enters into the blood through the stings of mos ouitoes. When Dr. Lavedan left the army he entered the Pasteur institute. There he discovered tryanosome, the cause or sleeping sickness. This discovery made, he further demonstrated that it was through the famous tsetse fly that the disease was communicated.
 pr Koch has made a notable step further by showing that the disease really germinates in crocodiles, and Is carried about by the tsetse fly; and the German physician says that the only way to stamp out the sleeping sickness Is to kill off the crocodiles.
 A remarkable and unique Israelite cere- mony has been carried out in Paris at the opening of the temple of lsraehte llp- eral union in the Rue Copernic. me event was all the more notable since Sun day ceremonies among the European Jews are very rare.
 All the notabilities of Judaism in Paris gathered to support Rabbi Louis G. Levi the founder of the Liberal union. The musical part of the ceremony was sup piled by chorus of young girls who sang hymns and psalms, accompanied by harp! and other stringed instruments. Another innovation was that the prayers were re- cited in French instead of Hebrew.
 Rabbi Levi while lighting the perpetua lamp delivered beautiful address, Sub sequently in a sermon he explained thai in face of the positive conquests of mod ern thought all religions had had to un' dertake an examination of their con science"
 Israel also had special difficulties to face and it was the duty of the Jews t ask themselves how they stood He con sidered the solution of these difficulties lay in the distinction that ought to b established between fact and form, prin- ciple and custom.
 Liberal Judaism appealed to reason and they were following the best Jewish tradition by accepting truth from what ever source it came. After the reading o the law the Rabbi offered prayer fo the French Republic