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Loud and Lady Kelvin in 1906. 



his memory cherished long after those 

 who sat at his feet and listened to his 

 voice shall have passed away. His 

 words, his thoughts remain. And not 

 his thoughts only; for though he was 

 essentially a man of thought, he was 

 also a man of effort to whom came the 

 high privilege of achievement. That 

 laborious humility for which he was 

 conspicuous, that unceasing activity 

 which drove him, as by an internal 

 fire, from success to success, mark him 

 as a man of purpose. In an age that 

 threatens, now to fester into luxury, 

 now to swell into the degenerate lust 

 of bigness, now to drivel into sport, 

 such a strenuous career as his, and 

 such high ideals of intellectual en- 



deavor as illuminated his whole life, 

 are possessions not lightly to be lost." 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 

 We record with regret the deaths 

 of Dr. H. T. Ricketts, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, who had been in Mex- 

 ico conducting research on typhus 

 fever and died from that disease; of 

 Dr. Eugene Hodenpyl. the pathologist, 

 of New York City; of Professor Will- 

 iam Graham Sumner, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, eminent for his contributions to 

 sociology and economics, and of Sir 

 Robert Giffen, the British statistician. 

 Members of the National Academy 

 of Sciences have been elected as fol- 

 lows: Forest Ray Moulton. assistant 



