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Birthday. Frank Julian Sprague, 75, "father of the trolley car." Celebration: a tribute meeting at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities...
...GRACE OF GOD? J. W. N. Sullivan?Knopf ($2.50). Brief and intelligent autobiography by a London scientist and music critic...
...SCIENTIST AMONG THE SOVIETS? Julian Huxley?Harper ($1.75). Test-tubing Communism...
Robert Andrews Millikan, scientist ... .Sc.D...
...discoveries in bacteriology, protozoology and immunity"; the late Walter Reed, who "told us in essence nearly all we know about yellow fever today"; Frederick Fuller Russell, who "perfected and first employed typhoid vaccination on a large scale." Passing from particular to general, Professor Gay praised the rarely praised medical scientist. More than half the professors of anatomy, physiology, bacteriology and biochemistry are not, said he, medical men in the strict old-fashioned sense. This means "that the medical sciences are becoming increasingly autonomous and important in their general relations, and that they are becoming 'purer,' by which...