Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-15
Medical Subject Presented.

\ medical subject is we'll presented by
NJ. Legendre of the Museum of Natural
History at Paris-the survival of organs
and the culture" OF living tissues. The
author cites many remarkable expert
ments, the results of which have proved
that organs and living tissues may be
preserved for some time in cold stor-
age and then transplanted grated
to the living bodies of other individuals
of the same species. Some of the opera
tons are exceedingly delicate and ingeni-
GUS
DR.. f. A. Schafer tells in non-technical
language of the general trend of mod
ern biochenical inquiries regarding the
nature and origin of living material and
the manner in which the life of higher
animals and man is maintained. DIR.
Schafer explains that recent advances
In knowledge have suggested that the
dividing line between animate and IMAM
innate matter is less sharp than ii has
hitherto been regarded. The problems of
life and matter are strikingly similar,
and the phenomena of each is inveStigat-
ed by the same methods. General re-
suits tend to show that living beings are
governed by laws identical with those
which govern inanimate matter. DR..
Schafer discusses the phenomena of life
and death with considerable detail. Ac-
cordtng to his views, natural death. unac-
CELEBRATED by disease should be quiet,
lent change: quite as Dastre expresses it,
THE need OF death should appear at the
end of life. just as the need of sleep ap-
pears at the end Of the day: and as
Durer depicts it in his well known etch-
ing.
Three articles deal with astronomy and
aStrophysics. The first and second are
by NJ =. PuiseuX, member of the
French Academy of Sciences. They con-
Germ the Years progress In astronomy.
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TRANSACTIONS from French scientific jour
nails The third is by an American, G. G.
Abbot, director of the Smithsonian as
trophysical observatory. and consists OF
report on the radiations of the sun. ar
investigation conducted during the past
ten years, in continuation of the work OF
the late Secretary S. p. Langley, which
has included observations on Mount
Whitney and Mount Wilson in this coun-
try. and at BaSsour in Algeria.
Sir William Ramsay Contributor.
An article by Sir William Ramsay re-
lates to the measurement of infinitesmal
quantities of substance, in which he de-
tails some of the recent efforts of scien-
fists Ito see the invisible, to touch the
intangible. and to weigh the impondera-
BILE
The report also contains a paper on
molecular theories and mathematics, by
Emil Borel. which was an address de-
livered on the occasion of the Inaugural
ton of the Rice Institute at Houston,
Tex; and another by the late Henri Poin-
care, on the connection between ether
and matter, an address delivered before
the French PLY steal Society in 1912. The
lllustrious physicist reviews much of the
work presented before the society, and
discusses recent experiments and their
results.
At the end of the volume thdre is an
interesting biography of Henri 'Poincare
his scientific work and his philosophy.
written by Charles Nordmann. who re-
marks: "A great inventor. a great philos-
opher, Poincare was also great writer
If it We're for literary merit alone he
would deserve study. In the somber forest
of mystery. learning is like a glade Men
enlarge continuously the circle which bor-
ders the clearing. But at the same time
it continuously touches the shades of the
unknown at greater number of points
No one on the borders of this glade has
know how to gather newer and more mag
nificent flowers than has Henri Poincare
So. as long there men who thin
that it is noble to live at the summit
where harsh truth is enthroned. his Lo-
raine name will tremble on their lips. II
| may paraphrase a famous saying, he
was one of the essential elements of hui
man thought