THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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Professor Ludwig Hektoen, 



Vice-president for the Section of Physiology 



and Experimental Medicine. 



SCIENTIFIC EI EN AT THE MEET- 

 INGS OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION 



It is one of the pleasures of attend- 

 ing a large meeting of scientific men 

 to see the leaders of science and to 

 personify work with which we are 

 familiar by associating it with the face 

 and presence of its authors. A lesser 

 but still legitimate satisfaction is found 

 in seeing their portraits, and we have 

 regarded it as desirable to present to 

 readers of the Monthly photographs 

 of the officers of the American Associa- 

 tion with whom they would like to be 

 acquainted. In the last issue of the 

 Monthly there was a portrait of the 

 president, Professor Chamberlin, who, 

 like Professor Michelson, gives distinc- 

 tion to the University of Chicago, and 

 deserves a second Nobel prize, were 

 there one established in geology. We 

 give now a plate showing five presi- 

 dents of the association and the chair- 

 man of the local committee. On the 

 right is the president of the Chicago 

 meeting. Professor E. L. Nichols, of 

 Cornell University, eminent for his 

 work in optics and electricity and hon- 



jored for his services to education and 

 scientific organization. Next is Dr. W. 

 H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, the retiring president, the 

 leader among our pathologists both 

 in research and medical instruction. 

 Adjacent is Dr. E. W. Morley, who 

 has recently retired from his chair at 

 the Western Reserve University, equal- 

 ly distinguished as a physicist and as 

 a chemist, the recipient of the Davy 

 medal from the Royal Society at the 

 same time that Dr. Michelson received 

 the Copley medal. To the left is Dr. 

 R. S. Woodward, the author of valu- 

 able researches in mathematical phys- 

 ics, as president of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution occupying the most important 

 executive scientific position in the 

 world. By him is Dr. C. M. Wood- 

 ward, of Washington University, known 

 both as an engineer and as a leader in 

 educational work, especially in the in- 

 troduction of manual training. The 

 remaining portrait is of Dr. John M. 

 Coulter, head of the Department of 

 Botany at Chicago and one of those 

 who have given the university in the 



Professor E. B. Wilson, 

 Vice-president of the Section of Zoolcgy. 



