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standing among each ten instructors. 

 The five institutions that have the best 

 record are of comparatively recent es- 

 tablishment; they have given a rela- 

 tively more prominent position to sci- 

 ence than the older institutions and 

 have selected better men. At certain 

 other institutions the ratios are: Yale, 

 10.6; Michigan, 12.3; Wisconsin, 13.2; 

 Columbia, 13.3; Cornell, 16.5; Cali- 

 fornia, 21.3; Pennsylvania, 25.2. 



THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR 

 BREWER 



Until the establishment of the 

 Johns Hopkins University in 1S76, 

 Harvard and Yale were our chief cen- 

 ters of scientific research and pro- 

 ductive scholarship. We are losing 

 one after the other the men who gave 

 distinction to these universities. Yale 

 has mourned the death of Dana, 

 Loomis, Newton, Gibbs, Marsh and 

 Johnson, and now in the death of 

 William Henry Brewer one of the few 

 remaining links with the past is sev- 

 ered. He belonged to a genei-ation and 

 to a type of university professor which 

 scarcely survive. The man of the 



Professor Brewer in his Library. 



Professor Brewer in 1910. 



world is now likely to be found in the 

 university chair as elsewhere, leaving 

 small space for the naive and the un- 

 conventional. 



Brewer was born on a farm eighty- 

 two years ago; he graduated with the 

 first class of the Yale scientific school; 

 he studied with Liebig before studying 

 abroad had become usual; in 1858 he 

 became professor of chemistry and 

 geology at Washington College. From 

 1860 to 1864 Brewer served on the 

 California State Survey and was dur- 

 ing the latter part of this period pro- 

 fessor of natural science in the Uni- 

 versity of California. He always 

 looked back with special interest to 

 these years. He was associated with 

 King. Whitney and others in exploring 

 the Sierras, one of whose peaks is 

 named in his honor. At this time the 

 " Botany of California " was prepared. 



In 1864 Brewer began his long serv- 

 ice as professor of agriculture in the- 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Yale Uni- 

 versity. In addition to the work of 

 his chair, he was indefatigable in in- 

 vestigation and exploration, in lectur- 

 ing and in attendance at scientific 

 gatherings, being rarely absent even to 



