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medal to J. "Willard Gibbs as early as 1880, 

 long before the world at large appreciated the 

 fundamental character of the work of the 

 great New Haven physicist. Wolcott Gibbs 

 served on the Eumford Committee of the 

 American Academy for thirty years (1864- 

 94), and in many other ways did his best 

 to aid the progress of science in America. 

 He was for a time president of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, until ill health en- 

 forced his resignation; and he served also as 

 president of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



Not only at home, but also abroad, his 

 eminence was worthily recognized. His 

 election to honorary membership in the Ger- 

 man Chemical Society in 1883 and, to corres^ 

 ponding membership in the Eoyal Prussian 

 Academy in 1885 is perhaps the most stri- 

 king evidence of the foreign appreciation of 

 his work. No other American chemist has 

 ever attained to either of these high honors. 

 The brief autobiography published in the 

 issue of Science for Friday, December 18, 

 makes unnecessary a repetition of the chief 

 events in his quiet daily life. His manhood 

 was spent partly in New Tork, partly in 

 Cambridge, and finally during recent years, 

 among his cherished flowers at his home on 

 Gibbs Avenue near the First Beach at New- 

 port, E. I. The circumstances of his early aca- 

 demic life brought him into close contact with 

 but few students. This is the more to be re- 

 gretted because his enthusiastic spirit, his 

 tireless energy, his generous recognition of 

 everything good, and best of all his warm 

 human friendship endeared him to all who 

 knew him. Those who were thus fortunate, 

 whether students or colleagues, will always 

 devotedly treasure his memory; and his place 

 as a pioneer of science in America will always 

 be secure. 



Theodore William Eichaeds 



80IENTIFIG NOTES AND NEWS 

 The honorary local secretaries of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 to be held in Winnipeg from August 25 to 

 September 1, of the present year, are 0. M. 

 Bell, Esq., W. Sanford Evans, Esq., Professor 



M. A. Parker. Enquiries and communica- 

 tions on matters connected with the meeting 

 should be addressed : To the Local Secretaries, 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, University Building, Winnipeg, 

 Man. 



The American Society of Zoologists, East- 

 ern Branch, at its recent meeting in Balti- 

 more, elected the following officers : Presi- 

 dent, Professor Herbert S. Jennings, the 

 Johns Hopkins University; Vice-president, 

 Professor H. V. Wilson, University of North 

 Carolina; Secretary-treasurer, Dr. Lorande 

 Loss Woodruff, Yale University; Member of 

 Executive Committee, Professor Maynard M. 

 Metcalf, Oberlin College. 



A Division of Pood and Agricultural Chem- 

 istry of the American Chemical Society has 

 organized and elected the following officers 

 and executive committee: Chairman, W. D. 

 Bigelow; Vice-chairman, C. A. Brown; jSec- 

 retary, W. B. D. Penniman; Executive Com- 

 mittee, E. K. Cameron, H. H. Huston, P. 

 Eudnich, B. E. Curry. 



At the annual meeting of the Academy of 

 Science of St. Louis, Professor Trelease was 

 elected president, and Professor McCourt, re- 

 cording secretary, for the current year. 



Peesident James B. Angell, of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan, celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday on January 7, while attending the 

 meeting of the Association of American Uni- 

 versities, at Cornell University. 



President Eliot, of Harvard University, 

 expects to leave Cambridge on Eebruary 7, 

 for a two-months' trip through the middle 

 west to the southwest and south, during which 

 he will make a large number of addresses to 

 Harvard alumni and others. 



Dr. Albrecht Penck, professor of geog- 

 raphy at Berlin, and this year Kaiser Wil- 

 helm professor at Columbia University, has 

 been given the degree of doctor of science by 

 Columbia University. 



The Wahlburg gold medal of the Swedish 

 Society for Anthropology and Geography 

 will be presented to Dr. Sven Hedin on his 

 return to Stockholm. This is the second 



