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...contributes to Mr. Babbitt's importance. All of which is prelude to the announcement of a great literary and artistic event. A. N. Marquis Co. of Chicago, publishers of Who's Who In America, "after more than five years of unremitting labor and the most painstaking research"-are about to publish First Families of America - the Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy. To those who are interested in genealogy (and to those who are not) this book will undoubtedly render a great service. If it cannot tell people where they are going, at least it will tell where they...
...Maine) as President, a Chinaman and an Englishman as Vice-Presidents, and directors of appropriate race for Asia, Europe and America. The Federation is to meet every two years and its geographical sections are to meet every year in turn. There is to be a central office and research bureau which will be established for the present-not at Geneva or The Hague-but in the United States. The interests of the Federation shown by the resolutions adopted at its final conference are enough to make Senator Lodge turn over in what his enemies describe as his political grave...
...dominant view among biologists today, backed by much exact microscopic research into the composition of cells, in the laboratories of such men as Profs. Clarence MeClung, of the University of Pennsylvania, Michael F. Guyer, of the University of Wisconsin, and T. H. Morgan and Edmund B. Wilson, of Columbia, rests on strictly objective data. They say there is a special chromosome (chromosomes are minute bodies of constant number and appearance for each species of plant or animal which appear in the cells during cell-division) called the X-or accessory chromosome, which is found in half the spermatozoa of male...
...Premier of Canada, moved in the House of Commons at Ottawa an appropriation for an annuity of $7,500 for Dr. Frederick G. Banting, of the University of Toronto, discoverer of insulin (new remedy for diabetes). This stipend, which will enable the scientist to devote his life to medical research, gives evidence that a great democratic people can learn to recognize its true benefactors...
...There is Mr. Ford, whose colossal knowledge, whose range of reading, deep fund of historical research are hidden from the world because he has no love of display. I venture to say that if Mr. Ford was placed on the witness stand and required under oath to give a fifty-word biography of Benedict Arnold he would remain mute. Rather than appear learned or highbrow he would affect ignorance. It is the nature...