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reproach for being a too brilliant theorist. 

 Time has since justified his keen sense of dis- 

 crimination, his rigid intellectual candor, and 

 subtlety in drawing right conclusions, not 

 only in those momentous issues, but in most 

 of his later philosophical writings. His work 

 obviously has enduring qualities; his positive 

 results are gained for all time, and become the 

 heritage of science. 



One further feature deserves to be pointed 

 out. Professor Gaudry was always consist- 

 ently opposed to the idea of following a scien- 

 tific pursuit from primarily mercenary motives. 

 He warns young men of the necessity of culti- 

 vating higher ideals of their chosen calling. 

 His words seem to reecho those of Francis 

 Bacon, who long ago complained that " men 

 have entered into a desire of learning and 

 knowledge, sometimes as if there were sought 

 in knowledge a shop for profit and sale; and 

 not a rich storehouse for the glory of the 

 Creator and the relief of man's estate." On 

 the other hand, his career reminds us more 

 emphatically than any precept, that in order 

 to attain the repose and exaltation of soul that 

 come after a lifetime of worthy effort and 

 resources nobly expended — " it is worth while 

 in the days of our youth to strive hard for this 

 great discipline; to pass sleepless nights for 

 it, to give up to it laborious days; to spurn 

 for it present pleasures ; to endure for it afflict- 

 ing poverty; to wade for it through darkness, 

 and sorrow, and contempt, as the great spirits 

 of the world have done in all ages and all 

 times." 



Finally, no truer thing could be said of 

 Gaudry than one of the most graceful and 

 talented of French writers — Flaubert — said 

 of himself : " Je f ais tout ce que je peux pour 

 elargir continuellement ma cervelle et je 

 travaille dans la sincerite de mon coeur; le 

 reste ne depend pas de moi." 



C. R. Eastman 

 Habvabd Univeesitt 



SGIENTIFW NOTES AND NEWS 

 Mr. Alexander Agassiz and Professor Theo- 

 bald Smith have been appointed delegates from 



Harvard University to the Darwin Celebration 

 at Cambridge University, England, in June, 

 1909. 



The Academic Royale de Medecine de Bel- 

 gique, at its meeting of December 26, last, 

 elected Dr. Charles S. Minot, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, a foreign corresponding mem- 

 ber of the academy. 



M. P. Villard has been elected to succeed 

 M. Mascart as a member of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences, in the section of physics. 



Dr. Henry E. Ceampton has been appointed 

 curator of the department of invertebrate zool- 

 ogy in the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, to fill the place made vacant by the 

 resignation of Dr. William M. Wheeler. He 

 will retain an official connection with Colum- 

 bia University, where he now is professor of 

 zoology in Barnard College. Dr. Frank E. 

 Lutz, investigator in the Station for Experi- 

 mental Evolution of the Carnegie Institution, 

 has been appointed an assistant curator in the 

 museum. Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch has 

 become officially connected with the museum 

 as honorary curator of the Arachnida. 



President Eliot has purchased a house on 

 Brattle Street, Cambridge, which he will oc- 

 cupy after leaving the residence provided by 

 Harvard University for the president. 



Dr. H. C. Chapman, professor of the insti- 

 tutes of medicine and medical jurisprudence 

 at Jefferson Medical College, and for thirty- 

 two years a member of the faculty, has re- 

 signed, his resignation to take effect in May 

 next. 



Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, has been 

 elected president of the American Forestry 

 Association to succeed President Wilson. 



Professor Robert Koch has been elected 

 a president of the German Central Committee 

 for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, in the 

 room of its founder, the late Herr Friedrich 

 Althoff, ministerial director of the Prussian 

 Education Office. 



Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Murrill are in Jamaica 

 to study and collect fungi in the interests of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. 



