DR. RAYMOND PEARL '99 LOSES LIBRARY IN FIRE

Dr. Raymond Pearl '99, of the department" of biometry and vital statistics in the School of Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University, has lost by fire his entire library, including highly valuable, and in some instances irreplacable data gathered in his own work during a period of 20 years. The fire took place November 27 and destroyed McCoy Hall, Baltimore, one of the older Johns Hopkins buildings. As luck would have it Dr. Pearl had moved his library into the building only a few days before the destructive fire occurred. In a communication published in the quarterly bulletin of the American Statistical Association he has appealed for duplicates of publications on biometry and genetics, the field to which he had devoted much time. His burned collection of these publications was one of the most nearly complete in the world. He lost also the records of 10 years work in the genetics of poultry, done while he was at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station.

In the same issue of the American Statistical Association quarterly appears an article on "The Incidence of Epidemic Influenza Among the Actively Tuberculous", of which Dr. Pearl is the author.