Evening star., 1925-02-15
Science.

gales. Al tunes the snip pToCeeueu
under the combined power of her
propeller and the rotors. although the
captain said the vessel could have
made progress with the rotors alone.
1t was one of the first real tests of
this new ship, which is propelled
through the water by the towers.
which revolve at the rate of from 40
TO 1l0 revolutions per minute. She
is dependent neither upon the wind
nor upon the condition of the water.
The moon endeavored to rival her
stunt of a few weeks ago when she
eclipsed the sun. by undergoing par
tial eclipse herself last week, but the
show was a miserable failure, because
1t was staged in the afternoon. The
earth, sailing between the. moon and
the sun, eclpsed the former 72 per
cent.
After ten years Of study, physicians
at Johns Hopkins University in Balti-
more have successfully produced a new
antiseptic which is fifty times stronger
than carbolic acid, and yet harmless in
its effects on man. 1t will cure disease
stricken tissues within a remarkably
short period, but may be swallowed
without i'll effects. Quantities of the
drug are being sent to various parts of
the country for testing by hospitals and
physicians.
Two Chicago physicians, a man and
his wife, have been recommended for
the 1925 Nobel prize in medicine as a
result of their work in preventing scar
let fever The physicians, DR.. George
F. Dick and DR.. Gladys H. Dick, were
recommended by the GorgaS Memorial
Institute for Tropical and Preventive
Medicine, which asserted the two had
worked thirteen years in perfecting
an antitoxin which it asserts has proven
a success.
Georgetown University announced
through it's president last week that
IS, 900, 900 has been raised and more
Is in sight to establish a great chem
ical-medical research institution at the
university The plans are that it would
be a world center for scientists who
are always working to find the cause
and cure Of disease.
More than two and one-half million
dollars of the necessary $3,0O0,000 has
been raised by a foundation which is
working to establish at Johns Hopkins
University the William Holland Will
mer Institute for the study and treat
ment of diseases of the eye. The in
stitution will be directed by Dr.
William Holland Wilmer, famous eye
specialist of this city. The Rockefel-
ler interests have promised to donate
large sum toward the project, pro-
vided the $3,000,000 is raised by those
who are planning the institute.
DR.. Edwin Hubble, Of the Mount
Wilson Observatory Of the Carnegie
Institute of Washington, and DR.. L
r Cleveland, a National Research
Council fellow attached to Johns
Hopkins University, have been Sc
lected to share the $1,000 annual prize
donated for the greatest contribution
toward the advancement Of science
The award, which is given through
the American Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Science, was given this
year for the work of both men for
discoveries in connection with the
spiral nebulae," dense "swarms" of
stars-the most distant objects thus
far discovered in the universe.
The Sargasso Sea, supposed to be a
vast, green plain of seaweed lying
somewhere between Cuba and Africa
in the Atlantic Ocean, and sometimes
referred to as the graveyard of the
Atlantic" is to be searched for and
| If found, put through search to dis
cover what it really is. Scientists
equipped for deep sea explorations