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dent, and in the evening the university will 

 give a banquet. On Thursday, June 24, the 

 Eede lecture will be delivered, and honorary 

 degrees will be conferred. It is further pro- 

 posed to hold an exhibition of portraits, edi- 

 tions and relics of Darwin at Christ's Col- 

 lege, somewhat similar to the Milton 

 exhibition of last June. 



Already some 200 delegates have been ap- 

 pointed to represent institutions, including: 



Professor W. G. Farlow, American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences, Boston; Professor C. S. Minot, 

 Boston; Professor K. H. Chittenden, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven; Professor E. B. Wilson, 

 Columbia University, New York; Dr. J. M. Bald- 

 win, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Pro- 

 fessor J. Loeb, University of California, Berkeley; 

 Dr. H. F. Osborn, American Philosophical Society; 

 Dr. L. 0. Howard, Academy of Sciences, Wash- 

 ington; Mr. C. F. Cox, Academy of Sciences, New 

 York; Domingo Gana, Universidad de Chile, San- 

 tiago; Hofrat Dr. L. von Graff, Gratz; Professor 

 Vejdovsky, Prague; Hofrat Dr. P. Steindachner, 

 Vienna; Professor E. van Beneden, Brussels; Pro- 

 fessor H. P. E. Jungersen, Copenhagen; Professor 

 Cugnot, Nancy; M. van Tieghem, Institute de 

 France, Paris; Le Prince Roland Bonaparte, In- 

 stitute de France, Paris; Professor E. Metchnikoff, 

 Pasteur Institute, Paris; Ober-Regierungsrat Pro- 

 fessor Adolf Engler, Deutsche Botanische Gesell- 

 schaft, Berlin; Dr. F. von Luschan, Gesellschaft 

 fair Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 

 Berlin; Professor Kukenthal, Breslau; Professor 

 Max Verworn, G'ottingen; Professor Biitschli, 

 Heidelberg; Professor R. Hertwig, Munich; Pro 

 fessor Goebel, Munich; Professor E. Ballowitz, 

 Miinster; Professor Graf zu Solms-Laubach, 

 Strassburg; Professor Th. Boveri, Wurzburg; Pro 

 fessor H. de Vries, Amsterdam; Professor J. H 

 van Bemraelen, Groningen; Professor A. A. W. 

 Hubrecht, Utrecht; the Italian Ambassador, Mar 

 quis of San Giuliano, Societa Geografica Italiana. 

 Rome; Professor C. Ishikawa, Tokio; Dr. W. C, 

 Brbgger, Christiania; Professor V. M. Simkevic 

 and Professor V. V. Zalenskij, St. Petersburg 

 Professor H. Thgel, Professor Chr. Aurivillius 

 and Professor A. G. Nathorst, Stockholm; Dr. 

 Paul Sarasin, Zurich; the Right Hon. Sir John 

 Buchanan, University of Cape of Good Hope, 

 Cape Town; Sir Richard Solomon, University 

 College, Johannesburg; Professor A. Liversidge, 

 Royal Society of New South Wales, Sydney; Sir 

 E. T. Candy, the University, Bombay; Sir Lewis 



Tupper, Pan jab University, Lahore; Dr. J. C. 

 Willis, Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya; Pro- 

 fessor E. Rutherford, Christchurch, New Zealand; 

 Sir Oliver Lodge, Birmingham University; Sir 

 Isambard Owen, Durham University; Dr. A. W. 

 W. Dale, Liverpool University; Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, the Royal Society, London; Lord Avebury, 

 Sir T. Lauder Brunton and Sir E. Ray Lankester, 

 the Royal Society, London; Mr. Francis Darwin, 

 British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence; the Duke of Northumberland, the Royal 

 Institution, London; Sir James Crichton-Browne, 

 the Royal Anthropological Institute, London; 

 Lieutenant-Colonel D. Prain, Royal Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Kew; Professor G. C. Bourne, Dr. F. Gotch 

 and Professor E. B. Poulton, Oxford University; 

 Sir Charles Eliot, Sheffield University; Mr. R. F. 

 Scharff, Royal Zoological Society, Dublin; Pro- 

 fessor W. C. Mcintosh, St. Andrews University; 

 Sir William Turner and Professor Cossar Ewart, 

 Edinburgh University; Principal E. H. Griffiths, 

 University College, Cardiff. 



WOLGOTT GIBBS 



The death of Wolcott Gibbs takes a com- 

 manding figure from the ranks of the veterans 

 of science. Attaining the age of over eighty- 

 six years, he had been for a long time almost 

 the sole survivor among the pioneers of Amer- 

 ican chemistry. He was one of the founders 

 of the National Academy of Sciences in 1870 ; 

 and he alone saw his name included among 

 those of living members in 1908. 



For over a decade he had headed in aca- 

 demic seniority the list of the faculties' of Har- 

 vard University. He served there as Eumford 

 professor for twenty-four years, and in honor- 

 able retirement bore the title of Eumford 

 professor emeritus for twenty-one years more. 

 The infirmity due to his increasing years had 

 withdTawn from him the privilege of con- 

 tributing to the growth of his beloved science ; 

 but his interest in the work of others re- 

 mained keen and enthusiastic until the end 

 had almost come— until pain had driven away 

 all the joy of life. 



It has been said that he was one of the 

 pioneers of American chemistry. He was 

 made assistant professor in New York at the 

 age of twenty-six in 1848. His eager and 

 energetic spirit and his thorough training 



