824 LEONARD PARKER KIXNICUTT. 



Society of Bacteriology; a fellow of the New England Water Works 

 Association; of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers; of the Ameri- 

 can Antiquarian Society, and of various foreign associations, including 

 the Association of Managers of Sewage Disposal Works of England, 

 the London Chemical Society, and the German Chemical Society. 

 He was a member of several social clubs in Worcester and Boston and 

 retained to a remarkable degree his interest in the alumni reunions of 

 the ISIassachusetts Institute of Technology, of the John Hopkins 

 Universitv and of Harvard Universitv, and he rarelv failed to be 

 present and add his geniality to the general good cheer. 



Esteemed and honored by the scientific world, and beloved by a 

 wide circle of acquaintances, yet it was as a teacher that the true worth 

 of his character manifested itself. Possessed of a broad training and 

 knowledge of his subject, and a fund of personal experiences, with 

 which he punctuated his lectures, he was enabled to drive home the 

 truths which he desired to impress on the minds of his students. 

 Interest in his students, however, did not cease with the lecture or the 

 laboratory. He was ever ready to listen sympathizingly and indul- 

 gently to those students M-ho were in distress, and to all such he gave 

 liberally of his time and purse. This conscientious devotion to duty 

 and unselfish human interest endeared him to the students and 

 alumni. It came as a great shock to all when, after a delightful 

 summer of European travel and the resumption of his academic 

 duties, apparently in his usual good health, he was attacked by a slow 

 fe\-er which confined him to the house after but a few days of activity. 

 The trouble was diagnosed finally as tuberculosis. He received his 

 first warning that he had this insidious disease in his system when he 

 was a student in Germany, but had apparently fully recovered from 

 this earlier attack. It was hoped that a year's leave of absence and 

 careful nursing would restore him to health and the resumption of a 

 part at least of his former activities. Toward the end of January, 

 1911, however, his heart became seriously affected, and he failed 

 rapidly until the end came peacefully on the morning of the sixth of 

 February. 



Professor William T. Sedgwick, a lifelong friend paid a fitting tril)- 

 ute to his memory when he said, "His was a unique, lovable and 

 altogether charming personality. Kindness and friendship such as 

 his life exemplified could no further go. He was critical, yet just; 

 tearless, yet considerate of others; honest to a fault; a hard worker; 

 and to a degree nowadays unusual, an accomplished and cultivated 

 gentleman." 



W. L. Jennings. 



