Xvi OBITUARY NOTICES. 
of the esteem in which the memory of Sir George Stokes is held in 
the intellectual world. The coffin containing the late Master’s 
body was first carried around the court of Pembroke College, in 
accordance with an ancient custom reserved for Masters, the pro- 
cession being formed of the choir and officiating clergy, the Fel- 
lows of the College, former Fellows, Masters of Arts, Bachelors of 
Arts and undergraduates. The interment took place at Mill Road 
Cemetery. 
In the words of Lord Kelvin, ‘‘ The world is poorer through his 
death, and we who knew him feel the sorrow of bereavement.’’ 
Pror. Jostan WILLARD Gipps. From the American Journal of 
Science for September, 1903, we glean that he was born February 
11, 1839, in New Haven, where his father was professor of Sacred 
Literature in the Yale Divinity School. He entered Yale College 
in 1854 and graduated in 1858. During his academic course he 
received several prizes in Latin and Mathematics. In 1863 he won 
the Ph.D. degree and was appointed to a tutorship in the College. 
The winter of 1866-67 he spent in Paris, and the year following 
went to Berlin, where he heard Magnus and others in physics and 
mathematics. In 1868 he listened to Kirchhoff and Helmholtz at 
Heidelberg. In 1871 he became Professor of Mathematical Physics 
at Yale; this position he held until the time of his death. It was 
not until he was thirty-four years old that he gave to the world, by 
publication, evidence of his extraordinary powers as an investigator 
in Mathematical Physics. In 1876 and 1878 appeared two parts of 
his great paper ‘‘ On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances.”’ 
The third overshadowed these somewhat. This is his most impor- 
tant contribution to physical science. It is one of the greatest and 
most enduring monuments of the wonderful scientific activity of the 
nineteenth century. 
The publication of this work was universally regarded an event 
of the first importance in the history of Chemistry. It founded a 
new department of chemical science. Yet years elapsed before its 
value was generally recognized. It was translated into German in 
1891 by Ostwald, and into French in 1899 by LeChatelier. 
In 1881 and 1884 he printed for private use a concise account of 
vector analysis. This he applied to some of the problems of astron- 
omy. In 1888 to 1889 he contributed five papers on points in the 
electro-magnetic theory of light and its relations to the various elas- 
