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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVIII. No. 720 



JIabine Biological Labokatoby 



Woods Holl. JIass., 

 August 13, 190S. 



The corporation and trustees of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory, in accepting the resigna- 

 tion of the director. Professor C. 0. Whitman, 

 have ordered to be put upon their records and to 

 be forwarded to Dr. Whitman the following 

 minute : 



The corporation and trustees desire to express 

 to the retiring director their regret that he finds 

 it necessary to withdraw from the active director- 

 ship of the laboratory and their appreciation of 

 the inestimable value of his services. Since the 

 establishment of the laboratory at Woods Hole, 

 twenty-one years ago, he has been continuously 

 its director and he has to a very large extent 

 guided its growth and de«lopment. He has stood 

 for the principles of cooperation and independence 

 which have made the laboratory unique in its 

 character and truly national in its influence. His 

 high ideals and his generous appreciation of the 

 work of others have been an inspiration to the 

 many biologists wlio, during these years, have 

 attended the laboratory. These ideals are the 

 most valuable possession of the laboratory. 



The corporation and trustees desire that the 

 retiring director may continue to ser\-e the labo- 

 ratory as honorary director and trustee and that 

 in the future as in the past his presence at the 

 lahoratory may continue to be an inspiration. 



XjNmEKSiTY or Chicago 



August 17, 190S. 



To THE CORPOEATIOK^ AND TRUSTEES OP THE MA- 

 RINE Biological Laboratokt, Woods Holl, 

 Mass. 

 Ladies and Chntlemen: Your action of August 

 13, in which you express a desire to have me 

 serve the laboratoiy as " honorary director and 

 trustee " is, in itself alone, an all-sufficient reward 

 for whatever service I have rendered as director. 

 Your good leiJl is the all-important recompense, 

 and no title that you could confer could add to 

 the weight of your approbation. In fact, titles 

 belittle the spirit. Let me have the latter without 

 the former — without title or office of any kind. 

 Please respect this wish and believe me, as ever, 

 a sincere and devoted friend of the laboratoiy. 

 KespectfuUy and cordially, 



C. O. Whitmai^ 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 It is announced that tlie Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences has received a legacy of 30,000,000 



Marks (abouv; $7,500,000), being the entire 

 fortune of a millionaire named Samson, a 

 Berlin banker, who recently died childless at 

 Brussels. 



The National Academy of Sciences will 

 hold its autumn meeting in the physical labo- 

 ratory of the Johns Hopikins University, Balti- 

 more, beginning on the morning of Tuesday, 

 November IT. 



The navy department has received a letter 

 from Commander Peary, dated from the 

 Boosevelt on August 17, announcing his safe 

 arrival at Etah, North Greenland. The trip 

 so far had been satisfactory, and he expected 

 to proceed north on that night. 



Dr. Albrecht Penck, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Berlin, arrived in New York on Sat- 

 urday, and has this week begun his duties as 

 Kaiser Wilhelm professor at Columbia Uni- 

 versity and Silliman lecturer at Tale Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor Russell H. Chittenden, director 

 of the Sheffield Scientific School of Tale Uni- 

 versity, has been appointed the university's 

 representative at the Darwin celebration to be 

 held at the University of Cambridge next 

 June. 



Dr. S. H. Babcock, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been presented with a silver 

 medal by the European DeLaval Separator 

 Corporation of Stockholm, Sweden, in recog- 

 nition of the distinguished service whicii he 

 has rendered to the advancement of dairying. 

 The medal, which was issued on the occasion 

 of the twenty -fifth anniversary of the corpora- 

 tion, bears on one side the busts of Dr. Gustaf 

 DeLaval, the inventor of the separator, and 

 Sir John Bernstrom, originator of important 

 improvements, and, on the reverse, figures of 

 the genius of invention handing the separator 

 to Mercury, the god of commerce, to be car- 

 ried around the world. 



Dr. a. Tingle, B.Sc. (London and Aber- 

 deen), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania), has been ap- 

 pointed scientific adviser to the viceroy of the 

 Province of Chili, China. Dr. Tingle's ad- 

 dress is care of No. .^ Pt^st Office, Ho Pei, 

 Tientsin City, China. 



