Evening star., 1941-02-23
Fifty Years Ago
In The Stur

The scientific progress of the Federal
center was discussed in an editorial
printed in The
Washington the Star for February
Science Center 20, 1891, Wash
ington. il was de-
clared. "is fast becoming the first city
of science in the Hemisphere. For years
there has been increasing disposition
on the part Of the various societies for
the promotion of science to hold their
annual or occasional assemblies at the
Capital. Here. where political and social
science on this continent has its center,
naturally and lrresistIbly. is the rallying
point of the material end psychological
sciences. As the Capital of the United
States grows in size and increases i'll
Importance with the political. moral and
physical growth of the republic, this
power of attraction for scientific and
literary bodies also develops During
the next fall number of scientific as
sociatiOns will meet here The Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of
Science will holds its next meeting in
this city. probably about September l.
About the same time Will convene the
International Congress of Biologists.
and the week preceding the frst-named
association, the American Society Of
MicroSCopiStS The meeting of the latter
body may demonstrate the propriety of
selecting Washin -00 as the regular
abiding place of the scCIc.. 30 semi
annual summer session OF the Ge0lo---4I
Society of America will, by its corStitu-
ton, be held in this city about the time
OF the holding OF the International Con-
gresS Of GeolOgists. Washington is de-
Cidedly the most convenient place for
such a purpose in all America, when the
matter of communication by rail and
steamer is considered Lying between
the Latin nations and Canada and in
easy reach Of the great seaports OF
Europe, its location is ideal COnsiGera-
ton of convenience for temporary
gatherings combines with the showing
Of vast permanent collections of scienti-
fic material, and the adoption of the
Capital as a congressional home by large
numbers of prominent scientific men,
to cause the argument in favor of max
ing Washington the mecca of science in
the new world to become irresistible"
Names of famous persons not alto
gether forgotten even now, when half
a century has passed, are mentioned in
foreign news published in The Star for
the date above cited Empress Frederick
OF Germany and her daughter, Princess
Margaret it was reported. ARE actively
engaged in sightseeing in Paris. An
American basso named DAVID Bispham.
now studying under Lamperti in Milan
Will sing selection of songs composed
by Lady Tennyson and set to unpub-
Hshed words by the poet laureate. The
Prince of Wales Qater Edward VID
will visit Ireland during the coming
summer. Miss Kate Greenawav is 10
have an exhibition of her drawings at
the London Fine Art Society early next
month. Herr LuersSen, the SCULPTOR
who modelled the bust of President Gar
field, died suddenly yesterday in Berlin
from apoplexy . When the news of
his death was communicated to his wife
she was SO overcome with grief that
she was seized with commissions and
shortly afterward died In a fit in spite
OF the efforts made to save her life"
X X
A singular coincidence" was chrorA
1cled on the same day in the words: The
Pail Mall Gazette yesterday published
in parallel columns a sermon which the
Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, pastor of the
famed Tabernacle, preached in 1864 and
an addrsS delivered by the Right Hon.
Joseph Savory. Lord Mayor of London,
last week at the Polytechnic Institute.
The two discourses are identical in
almost every particular, long passages
in the Spurgeon sermon being delivered
unchanged in the Lord Mayors address.
Lord Mayor Savory said that he
was unaware of the similarity existing
between his recent grafton and Spur
geons pulpit utterance of 1864. The
Lord Mayor added that he had never,
to the best Of his knowledge, seen the
sermon referred TO-"