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although such attendance involved on each occasion a trip 

 to Boston. Besides making this sacrifice of time and energy 

 in behalf of his beloved University, he bore always in mind 

 the difficulties of the struggling Division of Chemistry, and 

 frequent letters, often written in his own hand from remote 

 countries, brought valuable suggestions to the department 

 and attested his constant interest in its welfare and in the 

 growth of his chosen branch of science at Harvard. As al- 

 ready stated, it was upon his initiative, through the generous 

 gift of $50,000 from his brother James Loeb and himself, 

 that the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory for research 

 in physical and inorganic chemistry was founded at Harvard. 



Largely through his interest and endeavor the Association 

 of Harvard Chemists was formed, from among the alumni of 

 the University; and his hospitality to this association during 

 the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry in 

 1912 will long be remembered by those who were fortunate 

 enough to be his guests at that time. 



His devotion to the Congress was characteristically strong. 

 Since delegates from all over the world had been invited to 

 this continent, he felt that Americans should take especial 

 pains to make the meeting a success. Although he had only 

 just returned from a long trip to South America, undertaken 

 with the hope of stimulating interest in the undertaking, he 

 threw himself with self-sacrificing enthusiasm into the work 

 of preparing for the reception of the foreign guests in Wash- 

 ington and New York. 



Besides being a member of the Congress (and an unusually 

 helpful one), Professor Loeb was a fellow of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences and of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, and a member of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society, the German Chemical Society, the 

 American Electrochemical Society, and the New York Elec- 



