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thousands of unfortunate persons who 

 [Misst'ssed defects of character which 

 drove them whenever free io a life of 

 crime and made them an intolerable 

 nuisance to society — defects which 

 would inevitably reappear to some ex- 

 tent in their descendants if they had 

 any. If they could get the paramount 

 racial duty which they owed to posterity 

 incorporated as an essential part of the 

 moral code of the nation, then they 

 would be on the high road to success. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Frederick W. True, assistant direc- 

 tor of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 known for his contributions to zoology, 

 especially of the Cetacea; of Professor 

 Seth Eugene Meek, assistant curator of 

 zoology at the Field Museum of Natural 

 History, Chicago, who was an authority 

 on fishes and reptiles; of Dr. Eupert 

 Norton, assistant superintendent of the 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital; of Dr. Joseph 



Reynolds Green, F.R.S., known for his 

 researches in plant physiology, and of 

 Professor Hugo Kronecker, of Berlin, 

 distinguished for his contributions 1o 

 physiology. 



At the recent meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association, its gold medal 

 was conferred on Surgeon General Wil- 

 liam Crawford Gorgas, who has also re- 

 ceived honorary doctorates of laws from 

 Princeton and Yale Universities. — The 

 degree of LL.D. was bestowed by the 

 University of California on commence- 

 ment day on Eugene Woldemar Hil- 

 gard, from 1874 to 1906 professor of 

 agriculture and dean of the College of 

 Agriculture; on George Holmes Howi- 

 son, Mills professor of intellectual and 

 moral polity from 1884 to 1909. 



Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, who died on 

 June 17, bequeathed $5,000,000 to the 

 American Museum of Natural History 

 and made other bequests to public in- 

 stitutions amounting to $3,450,000. 



