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initiated a campaign for the establishment of 

 a research institute of chemotherapy. For 

 the last year the propaganda has painlessly 

 died. Why this lack of perseverance? I can 

 see the need of another institute which would 

 embrace the study of all the materials em- 

 ployed in the industries engaged in the manu- 

 facture of agricultural and natural products. 

 True, the industries have undertaken a con- 

 siderable share of this work, but industries 

 work for the profit of to-day and not for the 

 preservation of national wealth of the future. 



Referring again to the biological chemist 

 who interests us particularly, I see his need 

 for better laboratories, of better methods, of 

 better standards; I see the needs that have 

 been pointed out by several members of this 

 conference, and which are placed on the pro- 

 gram for discussion, and of a great many 

 more needs. Surely the biological chemist is 

 not the most favored son of society, of the 

 imiversity, or of the medical school. 



I am glad that Dr. Gies brought you all 

 together^ and gave you the opportunity to 

 inaugurate a new type of society, the aim of 

 which is to enhance the social usefulness of 

 the biological chemist, on the one hand, and, 

 on the other, to improve his facilities for 

 work, whether his work be teaching or in- 

 vestigating. Will this new society live to 

 record important service, or will it vegetate 

 a pale, colorless existence? This will depend 

 on the spirit in which you join it. The 

 prospect for service is before you. Once 

 more I wish to compliment Dr. Gies on his 

 vision. 



P. A. Lea'ene 



The Rockefeller Institute pok 

 Medical Eeskabch 



A BUST OF THE LATE PROFESSOR 

 E. D. COPE 



A BUST in plaster of the late Edward Drinker 

 Oope, who, at the time of his death in Phila- 

 delphia, on April 12, 1897, was professor of 

 zoology and comparative anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, has been purchased by 



2 An. allusion to the fact tiat the conference was 

 organized at Dr. Gies 's suggestion. 



the subscriptions of some twenty-seven of his 

 former colleagues, associates and students and 

 presenited to the zoological laboratory of the 

 university. 



This bust is the work of Mr. Eugene Caatello, 

 of Philadelphia, and is the one represented in 

 half tone in the number of The American Nat- 

 uralist for May, 1897. Mr. Castello writes : 



I had been engaged on portrait busts, of Dr. 

 Matthew Woods, president of the Browning So- 

 ciety, and of Dr. "William Mountain, author of 

 "Saint Cecilia." The study of individual char- 

 acter in these portraits, followed by the produc- 

 tion of a number of heads of racial types: Ameri- 

 can Indians, Russian moujiks, Arabs and French- 

 men, directed my attention to the very unusual fea- 

 tures of Professor Cope 'e head. That he was quite 

 aware of the interesting subject he was for a 

 sculptor was soon evideut, for he humorously de- 

 scribed himself as "gimber-jawed," that is, he 

 meant that the lower jaw was slightly undershot, 

 having much the form of a skate runner extending 

 from ear to chin. 



In reference to the circumstances connected with 

 the modelling of the bust, now the property of the 

 university, I consulted a diary that I kept at that 

 time and find that he gave me six sittings for it, 

 beginning October 22, 1896, and the last one on 

 January 6, 1897. At the final sitting he expressed 

 himself as satisfied that I had succeeded in ob- 

 taining a good likeness. After Professor Cope 

 passed away, his friend. Dr. Persifor Frazer, saw 

 the bust and invited me to place it in the hall of 

 the American Philosophical Society, May 7, 1897, 

 where it remained for some time. Later it was 

 again exposed there on the occasion of the Cope 

 Memorial meeting [November 12, 1897], where it 

 received favorable criticism from Professor Os- 

 born of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, Dr. Minis Hays and others. . . . Dr. Nolan, 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences, of this city, 

 also has taken oeeasiou to express his appreciation. 



The work of constructive modelling of the head 

 was aided to a considerable extent by the sitter 

 himself, who seemed to be familiar with the ana- 

 tomical points that differentiated it from any 

 others and which attracted my attention when I 

 met him for the first time. Artists delight in in- 

 dividual character, such as was evident in his 

 head, and upon my expression of interest Pro- 

 fessor Cope consented to give me some sittings, 

 although suffering at the time with an incurable 



