EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OP 

 BROWN UNIVERSITY, JUNE, 1895. 



Much to the pain of his colleagues, Professor Eli 

 W. Blake has felt obliged, owing to Mrs. Blake's ill 

 health, to resign the Hazard Professorship of Physics, 

 which he has held with such credit to himself and to the 

 University since 1870. It is no disparagement to the 

 exertions of President Wayland, Dr. Caswell and Pro- 

 fessor Greene, to name Professor Blake as in effect 

 the creator of the department of physics as it exists 

 in Brown University to-day. He devised and launched 

 the general courses in physics now taught ; he devised 

 and for years personally conducted the special courses 

 for laboratory students work never done here until 

 his time ; he selected nearly all our valuable physical 

 apparatus, much of this being of his own invention 

 and constructed by his own hands ; and he has re- 

 paired and rendered of service many of the then 

 useless instruments which were in the University's 

 possession when he came. His labors and his judg- 

 ment, as a member of the building committee, in 



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