SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1361 



Mr. Allen C. Clark, 816 14th St., Vice-president 

 from Historical Society. 



SAMUEL J. MELTZERi 



The scientific staff of the Eockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Eeseareh has learned with 

 profound grief of the death of Dr. Samuel J. 

 Meltzer. At a special meeting of the staff, held 

 on Novemher 12, 1920, it was resolved: That 

 an expression be recorded of the sense of great 

 loss which his passing away has occasioned. 



Dr. Meltzer has been associated with the 

 institute from the time of its inception. His 

 great learning, his devotion to medical science, 

 and his love for his fellow men continuously 

 prompted the expenditure of his utmost effort 

 in the causes to which the labor of the insti- 

 tute is dedicated. In this service he spent 

 wholeheartedly the last sixteen years of his 

 life, and in this service, in the fulness of his 

 powers, he has died. He did not know how to 

 spare himself in the devotion of his life to this 

 great purpose. 



- The staff of the institute is conscious, how- 

 ever, not only of his service to the idea of the 

 institute, but delights to recall the direction 

 and purpose his inspiration gave to the de- 

 velopment of medicine and medical research in 

 the United States. His leadership and his con- 

 tributions are second to the contributions of 

 no other man in their significance for this 

 generation of medical men. Dr. Meltzer's in- 

 terest in humanity transcended the field of his 

 medical activities. In the spirit of human co- 

 operation he desired to include all men, so that 

 there might flow, across the boundaries of na- 

 tions, a desire for progress in the direction of 

 universal ideals. These great interests were 

 recognized, not only in this country, but in 

 Europe as well, and gave Dr. Meltzer a unique 

 position as a lover of his kind. 



These are the thoughts which the staff de- 

 sires to record. They indicate how widely the 

 influence of Dr. Meltzer was spread, how in- 

 tensely his example was appreciated here. 

 ( The staff desires to convey its profound 

 sympathy to the family of Dr. Melzer, and in 



1 Resolutions passed by the Scientific StafE of 

 the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. 



this resolution to acquaint them with a meas- 

 ure of the regard in which he was held. For 

 the staff. Dr. Meltzer has not died; by the 

 spirit of his example, he has helped to make 

 the spirit of the institute, and this spirit will 

 continue while the institute endures. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. J. NoRRis EussELL, of Princeton Uni- 

 versity, has been awarded the gold medal of 

 the Royal Astronomical Society. Professor 

 Russell will sail for London on January 29 to 

 be present when the presentation is made. 



Professor J. F. Kemp, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, was elected president of the Geological 

 Society of America, at the recent Chicago 

 meeting. 



Professor Gilbert Ames Bliss, of the de- 

 partment of mathematics at the University of 

 Chicago, has been elected president of the 

 American Mathematical Society. 



Dr. James P. Southall, professor of phys- 

 ics in Columbia University, has been elected 

 president of the American Optical Society. 



A luncheon has been given in the Smith- 

 sonian Building in honor of the seventieth 

 birthday of Dr. J. W. Fewkes, chief of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Dr. Edwin Herbert Hall, Eumford pro- 

 fessor of physics in Harvard University, will, 

 on September 1, become professor emeritus. 



At the recent Chicago meeting, the council 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science directed the permanent secre- 

 tary to appoint an assistant secretary, the 

 duties of this officer being to aid the permanent 

 secretary in the editorial and scientific aspects 

 of the work of the association. Dr. Sam F. 

 Trelease has been appointed assistant secre- 

 tary. Dr. Trelease has recently returned to 

 America after several years of service in the 

 school of agriculture of the University of the 

 Philippines at Los Banos. The assistant sec- 

 retary will devote part of his time to the work 

 of the association, being also on the staff of 

 the laboratory of plant physiology of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



