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the same time was made a member of 

 the National Academy of Sciences. For 

 thirty-eight years he held the pro- 

 fessorship of physicSj while Columbia 

 developed from a small college into a 

 great university, his own work add- 

 ing much to its fame. His researches 

 in experimental physics are too numer- 

 ous even for naming, extending as 

 they do over a large part of the sci- 

 ence. They include work on photog- 

 raphy, projectiles, vacuum pumps, elec- 

 tricity and especially physiological 

 optics. Every one of his papers, per- 

 haps seventy-five in number, embodied 

 a new idea, worked out with ingenuity 

 and persistence. He was also an artist, 



a notable personality. He was a good 

 enemy and a good friend; and the 

 present writer regards it as a special 

 privilege that he was counted a friend. 



TEE PROPOSED ENLARGEMENT 

 OF THE NAPLES STATION. 

 The untiring energy of the founder 

 of the Naples Station, Professor Anton 

 Dohrn, has made it possible, with the 

 help of generous friends, to add a new 

 building to the two already existing 

 ones. When first started, in 1873, the 

 station consisted of a single building 

 the middle one of the three in the ac- 

 companying figure. It soon became 

 necessary to add another part, and the 



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The Naples Station. 



his water-color sketches being highly 

 esteemed, and was perhaps especially 

 interested in those phases of research 

 that required the knowledge of the 

 physicist, the psychologist and the 

 painter. 



Rood was one of the marked men of 

 Columbia University and of New York 

 City. Striking in appearance and in 

 manners, possessing and possibly af- 

 fecting certain peculiarities, working 

 behind locked doors, sometimes living 

 with his family and sometimes not, 

 in part a recluse, though not averse to 

 congenial company or an evening at the 

 Century Club, he possessed altogether 



building to the left in the figure was 

 tend erected. The station has now out- 

 grown both of these, and another build- 

 ing is about to be added. As shown 

 in the figure the new part will be a 

 duplicate of the oldest building as far 

 as the exterior is concerned. In the 

 interior, however, the arrangement will 

 be entirely different. It is proposed 

 to have a large laboratory on the first 

 floor devoted to physiological research; 

 another on the floor above to physiolog- 

 ical chemistry. In addition there will 

 be a large number of private rooms for 

 zoologists and physiologists. A new 

 feature will be rooms in which the 



