The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-29
SCIENTISTS
OPEN BIC
MEET
Distinguished Words Fill the
Ait in Many D. c. Halls
Where Brains Abound


Ten-dollar words flew thick and
fast today, as the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science and forty-eight associated
organizations opened their four
day convention in Washington.
In half a dozen well-filled halls,
distinguished men and women,
some young, eager, others old
and experienced in the problems
of scientific progress, opened
manuscripts and portfolios and
poured forth their new wisdom.
Speaks On Mice.
At Central High School, Doctor
Vernon Bailey. chief field naturalist
of the United States biological sur.
vey, talked about mice.
The much-maligned mouse is by
no means as bad as he is painted,
Doctor Bailey told the American
Nature Study Society. Many small
mammals, commonly called mice
are widely different from each
other and from the common house
mouse, an Old World species so we'll
known and odious as to give a bad
reputation to many harmless native
species" he said.
While conceding destructive habits
to meadow and pine mice, Doctor
Bailey championed the insect ting
species, including lemming. red
backed, deer, harvest and grass.
hopper mice.
Leads Geographic Meet.
In the library of the National
Geographic Society, George j. Mil.
Ter. of the State Teachers College.
Mankato, Mimi, was whooping up
geography as a social science to an
audience of members of the Ma.
tional Council of Geography Teach.
ers.
He urged emphasis OF the eco.
nomic and historical phases of the
study, in order to present. to the
pupil, the activities of mankind,
Such geography should be SO
different from preceding work that
ting something new" said Mr.. Mil
Ter. 1T should" and there fol.
lowed lengthy list of hints to
teachers.
Over in Corcoran Hall, the new
unit Of George Washington Univer.
sity. scores of members of thu
American Psychological Association
were fussing around in the corri-
doris because the meeting hall was
packed to the last inch.
blackboard was filled with
charts of various import, among
them being illustration OF and vari-
atoms on the color spectrum. the
mental experts were listening to
talks on experimental psychology
by Christine LaddFranklin, h
korfka, and others, who were pro-
ducing optical illusions with color
boards as fast as they could open
their brief cases and portfolios.
Speakers-And Speakers!
Among the interesting talks at
the morning session Of the Amnli-
can Society Of biologists at Central
High School was the brief talk by
L. r. Cleveland on 1.-THE Ability OF
Termites to Live Perhaps Indefinite.
ly on Diet of Pure Cellulose."
The Speoificity of Hemolytic Ar.
tibodies," by Roscoe r. Hyde, and
The Process of Awakening from
Hibernation in the Thirteen-lined
Ground Squirrel (Citellus tridecem-
iineatusl. by George Edwin John
son, helped to occupy the visiting
biologists time.
The American Physical Society
started it's convention in the lecture
room of the east building, Bureau
OF Standards with a paper by r. NJ.
Holmes on THE Effect of Light on
the Thermo- Electric Power Of SeIen.
ium. and continued through the
morning with cheerful talks on ar.
gon, irons, ultra-critical frequencieu,
Wehnelt catholics and other play.
things of the physicist.
Registration Of members crowded
Peacock Alley and the north and
south Hobbies of the New Willard
Hotel.
While nineteen of these societies
arc meeting today, final prepare
tons are being made for the forma!
opening of the associations con.
vention in general session at Me
mortal Continental Hall tonight ut
$40 O'CLOCK.
The speakers at this meeting viii
he Secretary of State Hughes. Doc.
tor Charles ID. Walcott, secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution, and
Doctor J. McKeen Cattell, who Will
preside.
Sir Esme Howard, the British
ambassador, will address the Amer
lean Political Science Association
at 8 o'clock tonight in the New
Willard Hotel on British Policy
and the Balance Of Power"