570 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1382 



in direct contact with the sea. This secures 

 a permanent and rich area for biological study 

 in every field, vertebrate and invertebrate. 



Salisbury Cove is an old fishing and farming 

 hamlet on the north shore of Mount Desert 

 Island about five miles from the town of Bar 

 Harbor and on the county road from it to 

 the town of Ellsworth on the mainland, where 

 there is a railroad station and junction. The 

 village of Salisbury Cove is a market garden- 

 ing and farming community of quiet and 

 simple kind, but Bar Harbor has good stores 

 of every sort, an excellent hospital, express, 

 telegraph, cable facilities, good train service. 

 The class in zoology will be conducted by the 

 acting director, Professor Ulrie Dahlgren, of 

 Princeton University, and two assistants, for 

 six weeks, from July 6 to August 17, in 

 which types of the principal groups of the 

 animal kingdom will be studied as to their 

 habits, structures and classification, together 

 with a number of the more important subjects 

 of general biology. Independent research 

 workers may obtain rooms that can be occu- 

 pied from June 25 to September 15. 



PRESENTATION TO DR. FREDERICK BELDING 

 POWER 



Dr. Prederick Belding Power, chemist in 

 charge of the phytochemical laboratory. Bu- 

 reau of Chemistry, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, was presented with a gold medal by Mr. 

 Henry S. Wellcome, of London, before a 

 gathering of distinguished guests, in the audi- 

 torium of the Cosmos Club, on the afternoon 

 of May 9. The medal was given in recogni- 

 tion of Dr. Power's distinguished services to 

 science during eighteen and one half years as 

 director of the Wellcome Chemical Research 

 Laboratories of London. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, presented the medal 

 to Dr. Power on behalf of Mr. Wellcome, who 

 although present was suffering from a severe 

 throat affection. In his address Dr. Walcott 

 spoke briefly of the life and discoveries of 

 Dr. Power: 



We have gathered here this afternoon to do 

 honor to Dr. Frederick Belding Power, who for 



fifty years has spent his thinking hours among 

 the complicated molecules of organic compounds; 

 who, because he possesses that peculiar faculty of 

 exhausting each subject which he takes up, has had 

 the greatest influence both in America and Great 

 Britain in raising the standards of our pharma- 

 coposias; who has gained distinction by his most 

 difficult and life-consuming researches into the 

 chemical composition of plant compounds. 



Dr. Power graduated from the Philadelphia 

 College of Pharmacy in 1874, in the same class 

 with his life-long friend, Mr. Wellcome, who urged 

 him to pursue his studies in Germany. He spent 

 the years from 1876 to 1880 in Strassburg, be- 

 coming the assistant of Flueckiger, one of the 

 greatest pharmacologists of Europe. Returning 

 to America, he spent nine years in the organizing 

 and building up of the department and school of 

 pharmacy in the University of Wisconsin, four 

 years in researches on essential oils in a newly or- 

 ganized chemical works near New York, and in 

 1896 Mr. Wellcome appointed him director of 

 his chemical research laboratories in London. 



For eighteen and one half years he devoted his 

 time exclusively to chemical research and the di- 

 rection of a staff of research workers under him. 

 One hundred and fifty important memoirs were 

 published from the laboratories during this period. 

 These covered a wide field of investigation, for 

 which material was obtained from all parts of the 

 world. Among these a very notable and complete 

 study was made of the East Indian chaulmoogra 

 oU, which resulted in the discovery of some 

 physiologically active acids of an entirely new 

 type. These form the basis of the new treatment 

 of leprosy which gives promise of affecting a com- 

 plete cure of one of the most terrible diseases of 

 mankind. 



During these years in London, Dr. Power had 

 the opportunity of meeting and forming the close 

 friendship of the foremost scientific men of Great 

 Britain. The recognition of his work by the 

 leading chemists and other scientists of Europe 

 would be perhaps exemplified in the high tribute 

 paid to him by the late Lord Moulton, one of the 

 most learned and versatile men in Europe, who was 

 entrusted by Kitchener with the task of producing 

 the high explosives for the war. Shortly before 

 his death he chided Mr. Wellcome for permitting 

 Dr. Power (who for family reasons had returned 

 to America) to leave Great Britain, for, as he 

 remarked, ' ' there was no one in Europe who could 

 fill his place." 



