SCIENCE 



Friday, November 26, 1920 



CONTENTS 

 Earmon Northrup Morse: Dr. Ira Remsen. . 497 



Wilhelm Wundt: Professor Edward Bead- 

 ford TiTCHENEE 500 



On the Determination of Geochronology 'by a 

 Study of Laminated Deposits: Bakon Gee- 

 AED DeGeer 502 



Events : — 



Dedication of the New Laboratory Build- 

 ing of the Bureau of Fisheries at Fairport, 

 Iowa; The Chicago Meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence; Scientifio Societies meeting ait Chi- 

 cago; Centenary of the Medical College of 

 the JJniversity of Cincinnati 204 



Scientific Notes and News 506 



University and Educational News 509 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 A Possible Relation between Mechanical, 

 Chemical and Electrical Quantities: Dr. 

 Gael Heeino. The Influence of Dry 

 versus Fresh Green Plant Tissue on Calcium 

 Metabolism: E. P. Robb. Purchases in Ger- 

 many: Professor Jas. Lewis Howe 509 



Scientific Boolcs: — 

 Pillsbury on the Psychology of Nationality 

 and Internationalism: Professor H. L. 



HOLLINQWORTH 511 



Call for a Meeting of Geneticists interested 

 in Agriculture 513 



Doctorates conferred by American Universi- 

 ties in 19S0 : Callie Hull 514 



Special Articles: — 

 A Method of Studying the Absorption- 

 Transpiration Ratio in Nutrient Media: Dr. 

 Eael S. Johnston 517 



The American Mathematical Society: Peo- 

 PESSOE P. N. Cole 518 



The National Academy of Sciences 519 



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 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudaon, N. Y. 



HARMON NORTHRUP MORSE 



After a long life spent in service in Johns 

 Hopkins University Professor Morse died 

 September 8, in the seventy-second year of 

 his age. He was bom October 15, 1848, at 

 Cambridge, Vermont, the son of a farmer, 

 and died at Chebeague, Maine, where he had 

 spent his summers for many years. He was 

 graduated from Amherst College in 1873, 

 then went to Gottingen, and received the de^ 

 gree of Ph.D. from that university in 1875. 

 The year 1875-76 was spent at Amherst as 

 assistant in chemistry. In 1875 it was an- 

 nounced that the Johns Hopkins University 

 would begin its work in the year 1876. 

 Shortly after it became knovm that the writer 

 of this notice was to be the professor of chem- 

 istry in the new university he received a call 

 from Morse who brought a letter of intro- 

 duction from Emerson. This letter led me 

 to take more than ordinary interest in the 

 bearer. Whatever we were to do in Balti- 

 more, it seemed clear that I should need an 

 assistant, and I told him I would in due time 

 aiTange for his appointment. Hearing a little 

 later of the fellowships that were to be 

 awarded I secured one of these for Morse and 

 so his connection with the Johns Hopkins 

 University began. Before the doors were 

 ox>ened, however, he was designated associate, 

 and we b^an our work together for better or 

 for worse. We had no laboratory. We had 

 less than a handful of students. What was to 

 come of it ? I need not go into the story, 

 thus suggested except to say that we were 

 absolutely untrammeled and left to work out 

 our own salvation. Morse and I were of one 

 mind as to the object to be attained and there 

 were no discussions in regard to the methods 

 to be adopted. They were not original, but 

 they had never been tried in this countxy. 

 There had never been an opportunity. The 

 opportunity that many of us had hoped for, 

 had dreamed of, was furnished by the bounty 



