Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1926, Page 24

W Pl ERNS OF JA i HEA BROUGH D.C. Le! !L Dr. Maxon of Smithsonian| Gets 10,000 Specimens on Expedition. The Island of stounded European ears ago with the siz Jam Maxon, fern rought back nens to the © 10,000 plant speci Smithsonian Institutio I'he purpose of Dr. Maxon's exped on was to round out the collecticn f Jamaican ferns in the Smithsonian collection for the completion of hi wonograph on the :r step in the comprehensive Smithsonian Instituty leading an b n brought 1 Maxon contains several ki viously known | THE SUNDAY IS GREAT AS AN ASTRONOMER i PROF. FROST, TOTALLY BLIND, Kindly Scientist of Yerkes Observatory Lets Others ! Do Seeing for Him. ! Has Sel Work, Despite Handicap. BY JOHN GUNTHER. | s surely one of the supreme varadoxes of science that one of the most famous astronomers in Americ: { should be blind. | He i§ F yerkes Ob {of Chicago, cholar, humorist, teacher, made astronomy something |fine art as he scans and reads the heavens, stone-blind, for successive ars of students. He has a sight ali is own. He sees as clearly as other nomers, a thousand times more 1y than the rest of us. Astronomers are all poets,” wrote | Dudley Nichols once. “But they are not vers librist: They rely on the strictly metri | And =0 does Prof. Frost. . Frost, director of v of the University Wis T saw him * | when his observatory had one of its ! {gala an’s eal, Ny, Asa of the trip and of sev- eral earlier expeditions to the is most of the 500 species compri the Jamaican fern flora are now rep- resented in the Smithsonian collec- fion. Among those interesting to a Byman are several specics of vine forns. known locally as “hog gra which grow in tangled masses on exposed ridges and are so tough and springy as to provide a comfortahl Led for the mountain « a severe drough and to the reglo hitherto result | good man the most | s in ev back eived | The specimen brov perfect one to be mithsonian. Americ: ssociation fer the Advancement of Science and the New | York Botanical Garden financed the expedition. LEOPOLD AND LOEB WELL |3 | hushed IN PRISON AFTER 2 YEARS | Plans Book on Birds. Lat- Busy and Still Sane De- Former ter spite Predictions. A Low and sent to prison of Bobby would H\LI‘ unsupport on_phy mind was 1w ago. He ¢ in the old prison ten hours a day. Jod health in the | Officials said there would | e when It pold were the murde Loeb’s mi diction Nathan Le for life 1 Frani survive by Dr cin, tode deti d Leopold new prison | Jewel. nights. For one thing, the | heavens were kind. The stars were out. Millions of stars were studded n velvet heaven. Every star in the sky seemed blazing. And low in the | west 5 was burning like a red And that was the second thing. | We had come to see Mars. The swag- cering war god was dipping close to earth this night, and Prof. Frost was on his trail. Sensitive Prescience. Prof. Frost is gentle and pes with that queer sensitive i o |blind people have. They are good men, these astronomers, with faees up- lifted to the stars. L. Frost s a the great v that. We the stone v that. ke told - the ser men what was “in opposi closer to earth than he in hundreds of years. He so close for other hun- has two little monn like chips of third moon. {domed obs: <aw hir floors. Even With radia | small group of we were to tion.”. He wa would be W The inside of the observatory was 4 solemn. The telescope {polnted upward like o great gun. It hurling light a million miles space. The scene v i ipboard. The be nothing to prevent him writing .1} which he aid | are doubt- permitied the prison now bheen in |-ri.\nn} book on ornithology, to contemplate, but they ful whether he would be to_publish it outside The pair have two vears. atehing searfs that re of ind ert shoulder Eyes-ght Spec Im nsitive Prescience ! | That Helos Him Do Great it parelll? 1 ! although Prof. Frost has obvi- PROF. EDWIN B. FROST. |orders from the foot of the telescope, like “Sixteen west.” “Put Earth on Its Course.” Another assistant on the bridge re- peated “Sixteen west” and moved a group of levers. Sparks flew in the gloom. The great dome laboriously turned round. The telescope is sta- tionary; the dome and its aperture moves. Meanwhile Mars was getting in range. “They are putting the earth on f{ts course,” murmured Dudley. Prof. Frost let us see. One by one [we stopped and saw Mars floating at the end of the telescope like a spluttering diamond. Prof. Frost could see, too. Perhaps not with his eyes. 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As Dudley put it, Prof. Frost left his sight up there, glimmering among the sfars. B The first monument to a woman of the American Revolution is on the Moores Creek Bridge battleground, in North Carolina. It was erected to commemorate the herolsm ef Mary Slocumb, who rode on horseback miles at night to aid the wounded. STAR, WASHINGTON, observation, he can use the observa- tion of others just as well and .pro- ceed himself to more important work. That work has been distinguished. In scientific_circles he is a very famous | man. He holds degrees the world over, He writes for the Astronom- ische Nachrichten. Students come thousands of miles to see him. Points Way to: Others. And that night he stood there, gen- we, courtly, explaining stupendous conceptions to untrained brains, talk- ing simply of nebulae and light-years and refractive visibility, pointing our way for us through the dark dome, pointing our way for us also to Mars, | some 30 million miles away. 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