4 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON. 



cession of the seasons. Thus, during the past yesir, the Institu- 

 tion has lost by death two Trustees, namely, William Nimick 

 Frew and Seth Low, and a Research Associate, Professor Harry 

 Clary Jones, of Johns Hopkins University. 



Mr. Frew was a native of Pittsburgh. He was born there 

 July 10, 1854, and died there October 28, 1915. His mature life 

 was closely identified with the development of greater Pitts- 

 burgh, and his career in this civic work was in many respects 

 similar to the remarkable career of Mr. Low in the development 

 of Greater New York. Both men stood firmly for civic better- 

 ment and both aided conspicuously in securing the improvements 

 in American municipal affairs of the past quarter of a century. 

 Intimately associated with Mr. Carnegie in the establishment of 

 the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, Mr. Frew was the first 

 President of its Board of Trustees and he served the Institute 

 continuously in this capacity for about eighteen years. He was 

 a member also of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, of the 

 State Library Commission of Pennsylvania, and a Trustee of the 

 Pennsylvania College for Women, as well as a Trustee of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington since its foundation in 1902. 



Seth Low was born at Brooklyn, New York, January 18, 1850, 

 and he died at Bedford Hills, New York, September 17, 1916. 

 His career and his constructive achievements constitute a well- 

 known and highly esteemed national possession. For more than 

 thirty years he has been recognized as one of the first citizens 

 of the RepubUc. His contributions to civic righteousness, to 

 education, and to altruistic enterprises generally have been of 

 the first order. He has set an example worthy of emulation 

 everywhere in the interests of sound business and efficient 

 government. By inheritance a man of affairs and with excep- 

 tional opportunities for advancement in the commercial and 

 industrial world, he devoted his time, his talents, and his energies 

 almost wholly to the public weal. Probably no other man in the 

 history of our country has done so much to raise the standard 

 for, and to secure improvements in, municipal affairs. His two 

 terms as Mayor of his native city and his term as Mayor of New 

 York mark a noteworthy epoch in the evolution of reforms 

 and improvements in American civic life. In these arduous 



