Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1931, Page 11

SCIENTISTS HONOR - FAMOUS BIOLOGIST Five New Species Named for | i “Dr. Leonhard Stejneger. of Smithsoniem. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. .. Five new species of reptiles hitherto unknown to science have just been named in honor of Dr. Leonhard Stej- | neger, curator of biology of the Smith- eonian Institution, in a world-wide | tribute to the dean of American biol- | ogists. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Stejneger's arrival in Washing- | ton from Norway, his native land. The | American Society of Ichthyologists and | Herptologists devotes a special number | of its official journal as a tribute to the veteran scientist, whom many consider the world's foremost expert on reptilian ife. The rarest and most curious of cold- blooded ~animals recently discovered were selected to bear his name. First | is a small, bright-green lizard, beleved | to inhabit the mangrove swamps of ex- treme Southwestern Florida. It is con- | tributed to the list of Stejneger name- | sakes by Thomas Barbour of Hariard University, who says that “it may well | be the last conspicuous American nov- elty.” One of the most beautiful of North American reptiles, it hitherto has escaped the notice of biologists. It | probably is extremely rare ‘Was Actual Discoverer. Dr. Stejneger, Barbour points out, is | the actual discoverer. More than 40 | years ago he came across a specimen in the National Museum collection, but neglected to cdaim the discovery, hop- ing that more specimens would show | up which would justify his belief that | it was a new species. This Spring the Harvard zoologist came across the strange little animal in a collection from Florida and was unable to identify it | by comparison with any known species. He sent it to Dr. Stejneger in Wash- Ington, who immediately recognized it @s the prototype of the creature he had set ‘aside for further study nearly half B century before. The second newly discovered animal named for the veteran biologist is a burrowing blind snake from the Bel- gian Congo, discovered by Arthur Love- | ridge of Harvard University. Dr. Stej- neger, Loveridge points out. had recog- nized this creature as a peculiar type |= Wwhen he came acrocs a specimen in the | National Museum collection many years | @go, but had failed to describe it. A recently discovered Korean toad is named for' Dr. Stejneger by Karl P. Schmidt of the Fleld Museum, Chicago. Dr. Hugh M. Smith, commissioner of fisheries of Siam, gives his name to a hitherto unknown fresh-water fish. Dr. Stejneger's name has been attached by Doris M. Cochran of the National Mu- seum to & new lizard just discovered in Haitt. Kept in Active Service. Among Dr. Stejneger's notable dis- coveries, it is pointed out in the anni- versary volume, is a curious frog living in the mountain streams of the Pacific Coast, which recent studies have dem- onstrated to be the most primitive of American frogs. This creature, the | ascaphus, is highly specialized for life in cqld, running water, and only leaves the swift mountain brooks at night and on cold, damp cays. It is con- fidered close to the basic frog type rom which other members of the fam- 1ly have evolved. Long a Government biologist, some of Dr. Stejneger's notable exploits have been . the recovery of bones of the Pallas cormorant and the seacow, ani- mals long extinct, from the desolate Bering Island, where he spent one Win- ter. He came to the United States as a specialist on birds, but soon switched his major interest to reptiles, in which field he has become a recagnized world authority. Dr. Stejneger is past the retirement age in the Government serv- ice, but has been continued in office because of the lmgflu\blllw of finding anyhody of quite the same accomplish- ments to take his place. EIGHT GET COMMISSIONS One Lieutenant Colonel and Two ""Majors Assigned to Reserves. Elight residents of the District of Co- lumbia have been commissioned in the Army Reserve Corps by the War De- partment. George H. Foster, 4403 Iowa aveénhue, is made a major in the Signal Corps and George B. Jenkins, 1335 H street, a lieutenant colonel, and Daniel B. Williams, 1758 Q street, a major in the Medical Corps. George K. Brush, Jr., 2116 O street is made a first lieu- tenant of Cavalry; Benjamin L. Pickett, 1121 New Hampshire avenue, a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps; Charles M. Seaman, 2412 Ridge road, a first lieutenant of Engineers, and ‘Walter, 3000 Tilden street miah H. Walsh, 38 Michiz northeast, first lieutenants of Infantry. DESCRIBES CENSORSHIP | IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Ex-Minister Says Country Is Threntened With Dictatorship and | People Are Deprived of Liberty. Dr. Charles Pergler, former Minister to the United States from the World- War-liberated ~ Czechoslovakia, von- tended Tuesddy night that the censor- ship in his country now is worse than it was under the old Austrian regime. Dr. Pegler is dean of the graduate department of National University. He was addressing the Jewish Com- munity Center on “Political and Civil Liberty in Central Europé—Theory and Practice.” He asserted that Czecho- slovakia is -threatened today with dic-' tatorship and that its &ople are de- | prived of much of the liberty promised them under the democracy established through the peace treaties at the end of the war. COMMERCIAL VEHICLE — - OWNERS TO ORGANIZE| Body Will Act to Safeguard Inter- ests and Combat Legislation to Restrict Operation. Organization of commaercial mowr‘ vehicle owners of the District, including owners of busses and automobile trucks and shippers in general who use auto- mobiles or trucks, will be undertaken immediately as a result of a meeting Tuesday night at the headquarters of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. ‘The organization, which is to be somewhat similar to the defunct Com- mercial Vehicle Owners' Association, | will ac$ to safeguard the interests of such owmers and operators, it was an- nounced, The body will combat any proposed legislation which would tend | to restrigl motor truck and bus opera- tion from the District into Maryland and Virginia or other legislation which | would hamper proper development of ' commercial vehicle transportation. John W. Hardell of Barber & Ross was chairman of last night's meeting. | He appointed the following committee to arrange for an organization meet- ing: W. E. Humphries, chairman; P. T. McDermott, Arthur C. 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