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...investigators to secure objective evidence. The most ambitious project is that of the Scientific American, which recently offered $2,500 each to the first persons to produce an authentic psychic photograph and other psychic manifestations of physical character, under prescribed conditions, to the satisfaction of a committee consisting of Prof. William McDougall (psychologist), Dr. Daniel F. Comstock (physicist), Dr. Walter Franklin Prince and Hereward Carrington (psychic investigators), Harry Houdini (magician...
...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...
Anna Botsford Comstock, professor of nature study at Cornell, is 68 years old and studied at Cornell. She is the wife of Prof. John Henry Comstock, eminent entomologist, with whom she collaborated. She has made a special study of wood engraving and entomological illustration, and received medals for engraving at the Buffalo and Paris expositions. She is widely known as a lecturer and writer on nature study, the author of numerous handbooks on butterflies, bees, trees, etc., and the editor of the Nature Study Review...
...Prof. Alexander Silverman, head of the Chemistry Department of the University of Pittsburg, an authority on glass, ceramics and gems, says that synthetic jewels of as good practical and esthetic value as the natural gems are now being made in quantity. Artificial rubies and sapphires of various colors are made from alumina, by the addition of varying chromic or ferric oxides. They sell at $2.00 a carat...
This evening's program follows: Prelude to "Carmen", Bizet Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Nicolai Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", J. Straus Fantasia, "Pagliacci", Leoncavalle Suite, "Nuteracker", Tschaikovsky Organ Solo, (Prof. H. D. Sleeper). Liebesfreud, Kreisler Overture to "Tannhauser", Wagner Selection, "Orange Blossoms", Herbert Volga Bargemen's Song, arranged by Agide Jacchia. "Home, Sweet Home", Bishop-Jacchia