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og-y and biocliemistry, died on January 4, 

 1920, in Dallas, Texas, following an operation. 



Professor Woods was bom and raised a 

 Missourian and descended from Virginia and 

 Kentucky stock. 



He received the A.B. and A.M. degrees from 

 tlie University of Missouri. While pursuing 

 ■work for the Master's degree he came under 

 the influence of the late Waldemar Koch with 

 whom he conducted fundamental research on 

 the distribution of the lecithins. 



Later work and study were had at the Uni- 

 versities of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Cali- 

 fornia and at the Ohio Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. His earliest teaching experi- 

 ences were enjoyed at the Universities of Illi- 

 nois and Wisconsin and later on in a high 

 school of California. 



Professor Woods's first teaching in Texas 

 was at the Texas Christian University, at 

 Fort Worth, and a little later at the Grubbs 

 Vocational College, an institution connected 

 with the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege of Texas. 



Those who gained an intimate acquaintance 

 with Professor Woods found him to be a man 

 possessed of extraordinary ability. His habits 

 were simple and abstemious, his temperament 

 sensitive and impetuous, very often not san- 

 guine and serene enough for steady happiness. 



As a man of science he was essentially 

 clean, candid and a devout lover and seeker 

 of the truth. 



When he died he was thirty-six years of 

 age, a period in life when most begin to live 

 in enjoyment of the progression of science. 

 He was a fellow of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Lewis William Fetzer 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE LISTER MEMORIAL INSTITUTE IN 

 EDINBURGH 



As has been noted in Science, the project 

 originated before the war, for the establishment 

 in Edinburgh of a permanent memorial to the 

 late Lord Lister, has been revived. The Brit- 

 ish Medical Journal states that the University 



of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians 

 and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edin- 

 burgh have come to the conclusion that the 

 most suitable form for such a memorial will be 

 an institute in which the iScientific investiga- 

 tion of disease in any of its forms can be 

 undertaken, and in which the principal sci- 

 ences concerned can be adequately taught. It 

 was in Edinburgh that Lister elaborated and 

 consolidated his system, and it is a^ppropriate 

 that the scientific spirit which animated him 

 and the methods of research he developed 

 should be commemorated and continued in that 

 city. Lister's work in the wards of the Royal 

 Infirmary would have 'been fruitless — ^could not 

 indeed have been carried out — had he not first 

 tested his theories in the laboratory. It was in 

 and through research ithat his system of treat- 

 ment came to fruition. Research was the key- 

 note of his work, and it is to research and the 

 teaching of the results of research that the 

 proposed memorial is to be dedicated. The 

 need for such a centralized teaching and re- 

 search institute in Edinburgh, it is said, is 

 pressing. At the present time the burden of 

 such work is borne by the university depart- 

 ment of pathology and the laboratory of the 

 Royal College of Physicians. Of these, the 

 former, built and equipped thirty-five years 

 ago, is now inadequate, and the resources of 

 the latter, particularly as regards the accom- 

 modation of the workers, are entirely insuffi- 

 cient, even for present needs. There is as yet 

 no permanent memorial to Lister in Edinburgh, 

 and it is felt that the rapid development of 

 (pathology, of bacteriology, of clinical pathol- 

 ogy, of pathological chemistry, and of other 

 cognate branches of knowledge has widened 

 tlie field to such an extent as to render it nec- 

 essary that the building erected to his memory 

 shall be modern in design and equipment, and 

 sufficiently large to house all the departments 

 enumerated. The proposed new institute will 

 be managed by a board on which the univer- 

 sity and the two Royal Colleges will be repre- 

 sented. 



A conumittee has been formed to make an 

 appeal for £250,000 to pay for the site, to erect 



