Evening star., 1937-08-09
DR.. vi. KELLOGG,
SCIENTIST, DIES
Research Council Secretary,
So, Noted Author, Expires
In Hartford.

Dr.. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, SO, per-
manent secretary Of the National Re-
search Council here for IL years and
the first to hold that ONCE, died yes
terday in Hartford, Conn.
A distinguished scientist and au-
thor. he was appointed first permanent
secretary Of the council in 1919. two
years after the founding of the Or
ganization, and remained in that
capacity until 1881, when illness forced
him to retire from active work. He
has been secretary emeritus since then
A native of Kansas, he taught at
the University Of Kansas for year
IN 1894, then became professor of
entomology at Stanford University.
He came to Washington in 1914 on
leave of absence to join Herbert Hoover
rs member Of the Belgian Relief
Commission and was sent to Brussels.
From 1917 to 1919 he was assistant
10 Hoover, then United States food
administrator, later going to both
Poland and Russia as investigator for
the Relief Commission.
Wrote 20 Books.
His more than 20 books and papers.
principally on heredity, biology and
evolution, include six volumes on the
World War and biography of Hoover.
Born in Emporia in 1867, he is
said to have decided on the career
OF = naturalist even before entering
the University of Kansas at II, but
promised his father, Lyman Beecher
Kellogg, one-tlme attorney general
OF Kansas. who wanted him to be a
lawyer. that he would make no def
mite decision until year after gradu-
alton.
At the university, he met William
Allen White. and the two decided on
some journalistic work, becoming edi-
torial managers of Col Learnards
paper in Lawrence following gradua-
ton. The colonel had said he wanted
new blood" in his editorial columns,
and he got it. In accordance with
Whites idea that the payer should be
so interesting "subscribers will rush
out of doors and grab it up before it
has time to burn the grass" the
colonel is said to have complained
often, Boys, you ruined my breakfast
this morning, I should have eaten it
before I read our paper"
The two youths We're offered at
tractlve salaries on the Kansas City
Star as the result of their work for
Iearnard's paper. White accepted, but
Kellogg, his promised year over. de-
clded to go home and study to be
. teacher
Member Of Many Societies.
He was appointed to the faculty
OF his alma mater at %, but was
soon lured to California by David
Starr Jordan, Stanford president, in
1895.
In 1908, he was married to Miss
Charlotte Hoffman of Oakland, Calf,
In Florence, Italy.
Why in 1taly?" he is said to have
responded to friends question.
We'll, you see, she was there, and
was afraid some one else might
get her"
At one time, he served on boards of
the Rockefeller Foundation and on
those of large number of other scien-
tif1c and educational institutions,
among them the League OF Nations
Committee for Intellectual Co-opera-
ton.
A member of the National Academy
Of Sciences and an honorary member
of British and French scientific So
cieties. DR.. Kellogg held honorary de-
grees from American universities and
also many foreign decorations Among
the latter are the Belgian Order of
Leopold and the Order of the Crown,
the French Legion of Honor and the
highest award of Poland.
With him at the end were his wife.
his daughter Jean and Albert Barrows
OF the National Research Council
Memorial services will be held Tuesday
afternoon in Trinity College Chapel
there.