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...this question, shrouded as it frequently is in proved fraud and sensational mummery, an object of scientific attention and experiment? Chiefly because for 40 years a number of eminent men have been convinced exponents of supernaturalism. The movement sprang largely from the British Society for Psychical Research, organized in 1882, among whose founders, presidents, or sympathizers have been numbered Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson...
...member of the faculty of this institution until a few years ago. He resigned in order to go to Spain with the special purpose of acquainting the Spanish public with Latin American musical motives in which he has been specializing and at the same time of continuing his research in old Iberian music. He has been universally praised by both Spanish and American critics as an original and admirable composer. His work with Central American Indian motives has been especially noteworthy...
...surrounded by so many friends--old ones, whom I was happy, to meet again, new ones, whom I was happy, to make. You had prepared for your French visitor a social life so delightful, so fascinating, so absorbing, that too short a time was devoted to scientific research, and that many a book has remained on my shelves unopened...
Prof. Karl Pearson presented, through the press, a moving appeal for American financial assistance in preserving the home of Charles Darwin at Down, Kent, offered for sale, as a memorial museum and experiment station for research in evolution and genetics. Darwin lived there from 1842 until his death in 1882, and most of his books, including the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, were written there. The New York Evening Post, commenting on Prof. Pearson's plea that the war has left England too poor to do this, says: "Americans should be proud to raise part...
...Annie Jump Cannon, curator of the Harvard College Observatory, was born in Delaware 59 years ago, and educated at Wellesley. She has been at Harvard continuously since 1896 and ranks among the most distinguished American astronomers. Her main subjects of research are photographic spectra of stars and variable stars. She has discovered more one hundred and fifty new and variable stars, compiled a bibliography of 45,000 references, and completed a catalogue of 220,000 stellar spectra which will fill nine volumes of the Harvard Observatory Annals...