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...Charles Proteus Steiuments L. '02, the scientist who was to have inaugurated the Josiah Willard Gibbs public lectures established by the American Mathematical Society as an aid to its endowment, funds has died recently, and the society has not as yet appointed any scientist to fulfill the position left vacant...
...debutantes,' who ' being extremely young, the idea of queening it over the Bulgarians might tickle her fancy.' Last, Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, ' an engaging little person . . . with a sense of dignity.' "Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Co.: "Following the death of Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, wide publicity was given to the alleged fact that he was paid no ' regular' salary by the General Electric Co.-just ' received at his own request irregular amounts when he needed them.' Following the publication of this falsehood came an official statement from our Company...
...Charles Proteus Steinmetz, ranked with Marconi, Edison, Tesla, as one of the world's supreme masters of electricity, is dead at 58 in Schenectady, the scene of his 30 years' labors as Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Co. He had recently returned in a weakened condition from a six weeks' lecture tour to the Pacific Coast, and was confined to his bed, but believed to be in no danger. Death was due to chronic myocarditis, sudden failure striking the weakened wall of the heart...
...confused with that of Prof. Paul Kammerer, also of the University of Vienna, whose experiments in the transmission of acquired characteristics have recently aroused widespread interest here and in England, some biologists going so far as to rank him with Darwin (TIME, May 12). Kammerer grew eyes in the proteus, a sightless newt whose eyes are mere rudimentary spots beneath the skin, atrophied through ages of living in deep marine caves. He did it by exposing the newts to red light in their watery home continuously for five years from birth. After several generations, one group appeared with eyes that...
...Marix, Minister of Justice, Education, and Foreign Relations, has made his report on the American administration of Santo Domingo, and everybody is happy. At the request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what is still more, when...