. Review of reviews and world's work . ectro-lytic dissociation in 1887. In 1891, theyoung scientist received a call to the Uni-versity of Giessen, consequent upon his rapidand unopposed success. He refused the offer,accepting instead a position as instructor inStockholm College, where (largely throughthe influence of foreign scientists) he wasappointed professor in 1895. In 1897 hiscolleagues elected him to the rectorship(presidency), which post he yet holds. Becoming interested in the electro-chem-ical aspects of serotherapy, he spent the years1902-3 at the serum institutes of Denmarkand Pru
. Review of reviews and world's work . ectro-lytic dissociation in 1887. In 1891, theyoung scientist received a call to the Uni-versity of Giessen, consequent upon his rapidand unopposed success. He refused the offer,accepting instead a position as instructor inStockholm College, where (largely throughthe influence of foreign scientists) he wasappointed professor in 1895. In 1897 hiscolleagues elected him to the rectorship(presidency), which post he yet holds. Becoming interested in the electro-chem-ical aspects of serotherapy, he spent the years1902-3 at the serum institutes of Denmarkand Prussia. Shortly thereafter, in 1903,he was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry—being the first Sw^ede to receive one ofthose prizes. In 1905 he became directorof the Nobel Physical Institute. Dr. Arrhenius is a man with a singularwealth of ideas and a remarkable capacityto apply himself to various branches ofscience. He has attained distinction notonly as chemist and physicist, but also asgeo- and astrophysicist, meteorologist, phys-. DR. SVANTE ARRHENIUS, THE GREAT SWEDISHSCIENTIST iologist, etc.; directing his theories not intosingle, but many paths. He is in additionthe author of several textbooks in those prov-inces of science wherein he has busied him-self. Of late years he has adverted chieflytowards cosmology, as is evinced by the titlesof his latest works: Worlds in the Mak-ing, *The Life of the Universe as Con-ceived by Man from the Earliest Ages to thePresent Time, and **The Destinies of theStars. He caused a sensation some years ago byhis arguments over the nebular theory asapplied to the Milky Way. He is also theforemost advocate of the theory of cosmicpan-spermatism, which holds that omni-present spores, fully capable of survival inthe intense cold of space, wander over im-mense distances under the pressure of light,and give rise, under favorable circumstances,to various forms of life on the planetarybodies intercepting them. 324 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS THE
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