7 SEPTEMBER 1912, page 2

At The Newcastle Chamber Of Commerce On Wednesday A Letter

was read from Sir Edward Grey stating that the Government were making representations to the United States on the subject of the Panama Canal Act. We are very hopeful of the......

We Mention These Things, Which We Sincerely Hope May Turn

out to be exaggerated, since they are not supported in most respects by the reports from the British Consul at Tabriz, lest it should be said that we ignore facts which tell......

The Meeting Of The British Association At Dundee Opened On

Wednesday night, when Professor Schafer, of Edinburgh University, delivered the Presidential Address on the Origin, Nature, and Maintenance of Life. After commenting on the......

The Vermont Election For A State Governor Took Place On

Tuesday. It was watched with extraordinary interest through- out the United States, as it was generally thought that it would indicate the result of the Presidential election.......

The Manchester Guardian Published On Tuesday A Very...

by Mr. G. D. Turner, a member of the Y.M.C.A., as to the atrocities committed on Persians at Tabriz some months ago, and the terrorism exercised since then. It has attracted......

Turning To The Question Of The Source Of Life, Professor

Schafer enumerated the elements which when combined into a colloidal compound represented the chemical basis of life, and declared that when chemistry succeeds in building up......

Professor Schafer Dismissed The Extra-terrestrial Or...

origin of life on this planet as open to fatal objections and inherently improbable. The origin of life, we were driven to believe, was due, not to any sudden alteration, but to......

After Touching On The Cure And Prevention Of Parasitic...

Professor Schafer discussed the question whether the phenomena of senescence and death were a natural and necessary sequence to the existence of life. He could not admit that......

Professor Schafer's Address, Perhaps The Most Challeng-...

by a President of the British Association since Tyndall's famous Belfast utterance, though in the main a thorough-going vindication of the "mechanistic" position, is marked by......