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Family." This was followed by liis 

 important work on Ancient Society," 

 which treats the growth of intelligence 

 through inventions and discoveries, of 

 government, of the family and of prop- 

 erty. He was also the author of works 

 on " Houses and House-life of the Am- 

 erican Algonquins " and on " The Am- 

 erican Beaver." 



Morgan bequeathed most of his prop- 

 erty to the University of Rochester for 

 the higher education of woman. His 

 anthropological works led him to say: 

 " Democracy in government, brother- 

 hood in society, equality in rights and 

 privileges, and universal education 

 foreshadow the next higher plane of 

 society to which experience, intelli- 

 gence and knowledge are steadily tend- 

 ing. It will be a revival, in a higher 

 form, of the liberty, equality and fra- 

 ternity of the ancient gentes. Morgan 

 was not only a pioneer and leader in 

 the study of the American Indians, 

 but one of the founders of ethnology, 

 a science likely to become dominant in 

 the course of the present century. 



THE SARGENT ANNIVERSARY 

 MEDAL 



The former students and friends of 

 Dudley Allen Sargent, A.M., Sc.D., 

 M.D., director of the Hemenway Gym- 



nasium, Harvard University, have pre- 

 sented him with a bronze medallion. 

 The medallion, designed by Dr. R. Tait 

 McKenzie, has above the face of Dr. 

 Sargent the words " Dudley Allen Sar- 

 gent, Pioneer in Physical Education, 

 1907," while on the reverse is a row 

 of five Harvard seals below the words, 

 " A Recognition by his Friends and 

 Students." Two hundred and thirty 

 persons contributed to the medallion 

 fund. A plaster model of the medal- 

 lion and a bound volume containing 

 the autographs of the contributors to 

 the fund were presented to Dr. Sargent 

 by Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick at the 

 twenty-fifth commencement of the Sar- 

 gent Normal School of Physical Train- 

 ing held in Sandars Theater, June 1, 

 1907. The bronze medallion was fin- 

 ished recently and presented to Dr. 

 Sargent. The Sargent medallion com- 

 mittee is having struck a limited num- 

 ber of copies of the medal. These are 

 to be presented to President Roosevelt, 

 Secretary William Taft, Major General 

 Bell. Governor Curtis Guild and Book- 

 er T. Washington, who were all stu- 

 dents under Dr. Sargent. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Robert Chalmers, of the Canadian 



Medal Struck in honor of Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent. 



