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Angell, that the time has come when, in his judg- 

 ment, he should be permitted to retire from the 

 active direction of the affairs of this university. 

 We desire to record here and now some measure 

 of our appreciation of his services to this institu- 

 tion, of which he so long has been the head. 



It is now nearly thirty-eight years since he 

 assumed the presidency of this university. Under 

 his leadership it has grown in student attendance 

 from about 1,200 to more than 5,000, with a cor- 

 responding increase in faculty membership. Its 

 advance in eflfectiveness of educational work and 

 in all that goes to make a university great has 

 been no less prominently marked. The proud 

 position which this university has attained is due, 

 more than to all other elements combined, to the 

 fact that for more than one half its entire life it 

 has been blessed with his learning, his culture, his 

 wisdom, his tact, and, above all, with the example 

 and inspiration of his high-minded Christian 

 character. 



It is impossible to calculate the impress for 

 good given to the world by the 40,000 men and 

 •women who have carried with them from this 

 institution into their work and in their lives the 

 ■commanding iniiuence of his rich character and 

 'j>ersonality. 



Proud as he may justly be of the homage which 

 the world justly yields him as educator, diplomat 

 and publicist, he has even greater cause for pride 

 in the grateful affection of the people of this state, 

 whom he has served so long and so abundantly, 

 and in the love of the army of students, whose 

 lives he has directly enriched and to whom he will 

 always stand for all that is highest and best in 

 scholarly attainments, in private character and in 

 public and private citizenship. 



The women of the University of Michigan, 

 at their annual banquet, held at Barbour Gym- 

 nasium on April 2, passed resolutions, the first 

 part of which read: 



This occasion on which you, in your official 

 capacity, address for the last time the body of 

 women of the University of Michigan marks an 

 era in the higher education of women, not alone 

 in this commonwealth, but in America. Your 

 assumption of Michigan's responsibilities was 

 contemporary with our entrance into its oppor- 

 tunities. We were a hazardous experiment given 

 into your hands in the face of a skeptical world. 

 Tliere are no adequate words to express our grati- 

 tude for your unswerving loyalty to that trust. 

 We give you increasing homage and reverence for 

 the gifts of genius with which you have wrought 



in our behalf. Yours has been, for two score 

 years, the most potent influence in the land for 

 the unrestricted privilege of higher education for 

 women; yours the simplicity beiore which self- 

 consciousness vanished; yours the fine courage 

 that has helped many a sinking purpose to effect- 

 ive conclusion; yours the felicitous word that has 

 parried the criticism of an over-expectant world, 

 and has signally won where more militant meth- 

 ods would have lost. 



80IENTIFI0 NOTES AND NEWS 



The spring meeting of the council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science wiU be held in the Assembly Hall 

 of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C, on 

 the afternoon of Wednesday, April 21, 1909, 

 at 4.30 o'clock. 



The annual session of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences wiU be held in Washington, 

 D. C, beginning Tuesday, April 20, 1909, at 

 11 A.M. The place of meeting wiU be the 

 Smithsonian Institution. The public sessions 

 for the presentation of scientific papers wiU 

 be held in the large haU of the National 

 Museimi on Tuesday and Wednesday after- 

 noons, April 20 and 21. 



The American Philosophical Society, Phila- 

 delphia, will hold a general meeting on April 

 22, 23 and 24. The opening session wiU be 

 held on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock in 

 the hall of the society in Independence 

 Square. A Darwin commemoration will be 

 held on Friday evening at 8 o'clock in the 

 HaU of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- 

 vania followed by a reception. The afternoon 

 session on Saturday will be devoted to a 

 symposium on earthquakes. The annual din- 

 ner of the society will be held at the Bellevue- 

 Stratford, on Saturday evening. 



Professor T. G. Bonnet, F.E.S., will suc- 

 ceed Professor J. J. Thomson, F.RS., as 

 president of the British Association and will 

 preside over the meeting to be held at Sheffield 

 next year. 



The London Geographical Society has 

 awarded its Victoria Kesearch medal to Mr. 

 Alexander Agassiz. The society has awarded 

 a special medal to Lieutenant Ernest H. 

 Shackleton. 



