information if epidemic WoldChamberlain pharmaceutical immediately diplomat of to to in A. A. VEBLEN. SCHOLAR, DIES Professor Was Former President of Bygdelags Council, lowa 'U' Teacher. Professor Andrew A. Veblen, 83, widely known in the northwest as an author and scholar and former president of the Council of Bygdelags, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. His body is being returned to Stillwater, Minn., where burial will take place Friday. A brother of the late Thorstein Veblen, world known economist and writer, Professor Veblen himself had won national recognition among scientists for ? his work in physics and mathematics before his retirement from teaching in 1905. During his 22 years as a professor in the mathematic and physics departments at the University of Iowa, he did extensive research work on X-ray and electrical problems. He was twice called as an electrical consultant for the world's fair of 1893 at Chicago. One of his four sons, Professor Oswald Veblen, a friend of the German scientist, Einstein, for many years, is professor of mathematics at Princeton university, and has been exchange professor at Ox• ford university, England. He is now studying abroad. One sister and a daughter, Miss Gertrude Veblen, librarian of the engineering department at the University of Minnesota, live in Minneapolis. Worked on Historic Writings. He had been at his home in Los Angeles working on new historic writings concerning the Veblen genealogy and his ancestral home at Valdres, Norway, until a month before his death. He died following an attack of pneumonia. He had moved to California from Minneapolis in 1917, where he had lived since 1911. He had been married twice. In 1877 Kirsti Hougen, who in 1908, and in 1912 Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ringstad, who died in 1925. In 1930 he had published his latest work, Vang's Valdris-Rispo, collection of folk stories of Valdres province, restored to the Valdres dialect. And only two months before his death there was issued in his honor a dedication number of Samband, a quarterly magazine of old country folk lore and history which he edited for many years. He was decorated by the king of Norway in 1905 in the Order of St. Olaf in recognition of his services in education and in formation of societies perpetuating memory of their native land for persons of Norwegian blood and their descendants. He was the chief organizer and first president in 1901 of the Valdris Samband, a society of natives of Valdres, Norway, and their descendants, and had been honorary president of the organization since 1920. Born in Wisconsin. A lecturer and frequent contributor of papers and articles to periodicals, nearly all dealing with physics and mathematics, Professor Veblen had since his retirement in 1905 devoted nearly all his time to work touching on Norse folk lore, tradition and history, and a family gen• ealogy, for which he had collected material over a period of 25 years. A first edition of the volume was published in 1925. An early work, completed in 1878, was a translation of Vogt's Bible history. Professor Veblen was born in Ozaukee county, Wis.. in 1848. He received the degree of bachelor of arts at Carleton college, Northfield, in 1877. and three vears later the additional degree of master of arts. He spent two years at Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, from 1881 to 1883. From 1877 to 1881 as a profesor of English, he taught at Luther college, Decorah, Iowa, and from 1883 to 1905 at the University of Iowa. Besides Miss Gertrude Veblen, his daughter, who lives at the Hamshire Arms hotel, he is survived by a sis. ter, living in Minneapolis, Mrs. Sigurd Olson, 3515 Fifteenth avenue south, Three other sons besides Oswald survive him, Alfred, Seattle, Wash.; Harold, Eugene, Ore., and Elling, Summitt, N. J. He has three other daughters living, Mrs. Ralph W. Sims and Agnes Veblen Los Angeles, and Mrs. Henry G. Walker, Iowa City, Iowa. Two other sisters are also living, Mrs. Hans Hansen of Veblen, S. D., and Mrs. Ole T. Hougen, Nerstrand, Minn. A brother. John E. Veblen. lives in Los An• geles, and a step-son, Ivan Ringstad, is in St. Paul,
