Revision of the uintatheres

The valid genera and species of the large Eocene unitatheres from the western United States have been sorted out from the many proposed by Marsh, Cope, and others and their types cited….https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/peabody_museum_natural_history_bulletin/1013/thumbnail.jp

State Wide Studies in the Administration of Justice

An address delivered before the Indiana State Bar Association at Lafayette, Indiana, July 10, 1931

The Application of the Criminal Law of a Country to Acts Committed by Foreigners Outside the Jurisdiction

The present paper is confined to a discussion from an American point of view of the application of the criminal law of a country to acts committed by foreigners outside the territorial limits of the country concerned. It will include a statement of the prevailing theories adopted by American courts and jurists, accompanied by a brief summary of typical cases decided by American Courts, and a critical analysis of these theories and of their application in American judicial opinions

THE LOGICAL AND LEGAL BASES OF THE CONFLICT OF LAWS

Time was when the students of the physical sciences sought to judge the truth or correctness of any particular statement about a particular physical thing–plant, heavenly body, or case of chemical change–by assuming that they had already in hand a general truth with which to compare the particular empirical occurrence. The assumption was, as John Dewey, from whom I am quoting, puts it, that the human mind was already in possession of fixed truths, universal principles, preordained axioms and that only by their means could contingent, varying particular events be truly known. So long as this assumption maintained its hold upon men\u27s minds no real advance in physical science was possible. Modern science really began only when men trusted themselves to embarking upon the uncertain sea of events and were willing to be instructed by changes in the concrete. Then antecedent principles were tentatively employed as methods for conducting observations and experiments, and for organizing special facts: as hypotheses. In the field of the physical sciences, therefore, the deductive method of ascertaining the truth about nature has given way to what is called–perhaps with not entire accuracy–the inductive method of modern science, in which the so-called laws of nature are reached by collecting data, i.e. by observing concrete phenomena, and then forming, by a process of trial and error, generalizations which are merely useful tools by means of which we describe in mental shorthand as wide a range as possible of the observed physical phenomena, choosing that form of description which on the whole works most simply in the way of enabling us to describe past observations and to predict future observations

The Present Status of the Lack of Mutuality Rule

The object of any science is to obtain general statements which will accurately describe those aspects of past events which have been noted and also serve as aids in forecasting future events. In the field of the so-called natural sciences, such general statements are called laws of nature or natural laws – the law of gravitation, the law of falling bodies, etc. , As a science develops, it turns out that as a larger and larger number of aspects of natural events are observed or as those previously noted are re-examined with more delicate or more powerful instruments, these general statements, so-called natural laws, are found to be in need of revision or amendment. At the present time the scientific world, apparently partly because of the invention of better measuring instruments, but also for other reasons, is finding it necessary to revise not merely the statement of particular laws but the fundamental concepts in terms of which the laws are stated and with which it has worked so successfully for the past three centuries