JANUAET 31, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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lated institutions of higher learning, the uni- 

 versity, the agricultural college, the normal 

 school and the school of mines at some city 

 which is desirably situated. The plan is sup- 

 ported by the proposed conversion of the plans 

 and equipment that would otherwise be aban- 

 doned into a system of polytechnic high 

 schools. 



A comprehensive outline of the change 

 sought to be effected is given in the constitu- 

 tion and by-laws of the association, organized 

 at that time before the meeting of the board. 

 This follows: 



The name of the organization shall be ' ' The 

 Association for the Creation of a Greater Uni- 

 versity of Montana. ' ' 



The purpose of this association shall be: 



1. To consolidate the four higher educational 

 institutions of the state in order to prevent the 

 educational and financial waste brought about by 

 the maintenance of separate and isolated institu- 

 tions. 



2. To establish, instead of the four institutions, 

 a greater University of Montana to be situated in 

 or near some city suitable by reason of its railroad 

 connections, climate and water and health condi- 

 tions to be a great seat of learning. 



3. To work for the creation of a splendid system 

 of polytechnic high schools which are at the pres- 

 ent time so much needed; this to be brought about 

 by means of (a) the utilization of all the present 

 plants that would otherwise be abandoned, (6) the 

 utilization of the military post at Fort Aesini- 

 boine if the government turns it over to the state; 

 (c) the establishment of similar schools in other 

 sections of the state as they may from time to 

 time be needed. 



4. To impress on the attention of philanthropic 

 persons, especially men of great means, the desira- 

 bility of aiding the development of the University 

 of Montana, through the provision of buildings 

 and endowments. 



5. To arouse public sentiment in favor of educa- 

 tion and to arouse the enthusiasm of the people to 

 the unsurpassed educational possibilities of the 

 great commonwealth of Montana. 



The state board of education, after giving 

 a hearing to the representatives of this resolu- 

 tion, unanimously adopted resolutions recom- 

 mending that the legislature consolidate the 

 institutions and pledging the members to do 



all within their power to encompass the result 

 sought. 



THOMAS SABBISON MONTGOMEBT 



At the recent meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Zoologists in Cleveland, Ohio, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was submitted by Dr. A. G. 

 Mayer on behaK of the executive committee. 

 The resolution was then approved by a rising 

 vote of the society. 



Never has a deeper sense of irreconcilable sor- 

 row fallen upon us of this society than that fol- 

 lowing the announcement of the death of Thomas 

 Harrison Montgomery on the nineteenth day of 

 March, 1912, at the early age of thirty-nine years. 



Other friends, leaders in science, have gone be- 

 fore, but they were full of years and the labor of 

 their lives was as a story well nigh told; but with 

 Montgomery the tasks that lay before him were 

 those of the greater years of life, that period of 

 intellectual fruition for the harvest of which his 

 years of toil and training had been a preparation. 



While thus but upon tlie threshold of his middle 

 years, science lost him; but irreparable as these 

 things be, it is as our friend we mourn him most. 



No ordinary motives actuated him in his scien- 

 tific work, for personal ambition never clouded his 

 simple love for truth wherever truth might lead 

 him. 



It is to imselfish men such as he that great op- 

 portunities are entrusted, and the equipment and 

 organization of the new Zoological Laboratory of 

 the University of Pennsylvania was a task he had 

 all but completed, and this will serve as a fitting 

 monument to his ability as an executive. 



On the scientific side, he was the author of nearly 

 one hundred publications, and it would be impos- 

 sible to write a text-book upon the rSle of the 

 chromosomes in the determination of sex without 

 referring to his crucial labors in this field. 



It is seldom that we see a man even far ad- 

 vanced in years attain to the achievement he ac- 

 complished. Yet as our friend and our companion 

 we mourn him most, for science will and must be 

 advanced; but to us there ever will be but one 

 Montgomery, the generous friend, sympathetic and 

 simple, Montgomery the gentleman who loved us 

 and whom we loved. 



W. C. Curtis, 



Secretary 



