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ness and enthusiasm the progress of discovery in other branches of 

 science and from them he gleaned materials for the enrichment of 

 his own field of labor. His writing was characterized by a lucid and 

 attractive style and he was a lecturer of unusual skill. 



Owing to the great variety of subjects which he investigated it is 

 quite impossible to give in a few words an adequate summary of his 

 contributions. They have to do in the main with the fundamentals 

 of morphology and especially with cytology. Beginning with the 

 great problem of homologizing the reproductive structures of phan- 

 erogams and cryptogams, he soon became deeply interested in the 

 finer details of the mechanism of heredity; he investigated most 

 thoroughly the structure and behavior of the chromosomes, and 

 this led eventually to the study of a great variety of problems in the 

 morphology and physiology of the cell. His contributions in this 

 field are classical and constitute a large part of the foundation of our 

 present conception of the cell and of the mechanism of heredity. 



W. J. V. OSTERHOUT. 



CHARLES HALLET WING (1836-1915) 



Fellow in Class I, Section 3, 1874. 



Charles Hallet Wing, son of Benjamin Franklin and Adeline 

 (Hallet) Wing, was born in Boston, August 5, 1836, and died suddenly 

 at his home in Boston on September 13, 1915. He was a graduate 

 of the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, and later was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University in 1870, re- 

 signing that position in 1874 to accept the Professorship of Analytical 

 Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Under his 

 direction the Kidder Chemical Laboratories were planned and built, 

 in which were introduced many new features, making them models 

 for their time. As a teacher he demanded thoroughness, high stand- 

 ards of scholarship and strict attention to work, and he held the 

 respect and confidence of his pupils. 



In 1884 Professor Wing resigned his position at the Institute, and 

 soon after took up his residence at Ledger, Mitchell Co., N. C, where 



