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undertakings his altruism, his reasonableness, and his courage 

 surmounted the most formidable obstacles. 



Mr. Low was a Trustee of the Institution from the date of its 

 foundation in 1902. He was a member of the Finance Com- 

 mittee from 1906 to 1914, and was its Chairman from 1909 to 

 1914. Although much preoccupied with many other affairs, in 

 recent years especially, he maintained a keen interest in the 

 development of the Institution, and he was ever ready to give 

 freely of his friendly counsel drawn from an uncommonly rich 

 and varied experience with men and with philanthropic organ- 

 izations. He had great capacity for cooperation with hetero- 

 geneous groups of men and for the development of relations of 

 reciprocity between such groups. The straightforwardness, the 

 fairness, and the integrity shown by him in all such work will 

 be long remembered by those with whom he was intimately 

 associated. 



Professor Harry Clary Jones, a Research Associate of the 

 Institution since 1903, was born at New London, Frederick 

 County, Maryland, November 11, 1865. He died at Baltimore, 

 April 9, 1916. He was professor of physical chemistry in 

 the Johns Hopkins University, of which he was a graduate 

 and with which he was connected as student, instructor, and 

 professor for about thirty years. Few contemporaries have been 

 more enthusiastic and more indefatigable in research, and his 

 untimely death may be not improbably ascribed to overwork. 

 He was the author of ten volumes of reports of his researches 

 published by the Institution. Sensitive, tireless, and possessing 

 a keen sense of honor and responsibihty, he devoted his life to 

 the advancement of science with an energy and a fidelity worthy 

 of the highest commendation. 



The activities of the Institution are now so numerous and so 



varied that any item of progress of special interest to one group of 



,. , individuals may be paralleled by other items of 



Some salient , 



events of equal interest severally to other groups. Thus, 



year. ^<\Yhat at the m.oment are the most important 



investigations of the Institution?" is a question often asked but 



incapable of answer except with the proviso that since opinions 



differ the questioner is permitted to determine for himself, and 



