June 11, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



929 



The faculty of arts and sciences records with 

 gratitude its sense of the services which Charles 

 William Eliot has rendered to Harvard University 

 and to its own members. The changes he has 

 wrought in the university will be remembered so 

 long as the university endures. To this faculty 

 he has been a guide and a friend no less than a 

 leader. The qualities which mark him as great 

 have nowhere appeared more clearly and spon- 

 taneously than in its meetings. He has shown 

 judgment and resource, devotion to progress, love 

 of truth, contempt for sham and indirection, and 

 patience with those who 'differed or opposed. He 

 has welcomed in catholic spirit every variety of 

 intellectual ability, and has furthered the exten- 

 sion of every field of linowledge. He has been 

 frank in the admission of evils, courageous and 

 skilful in seeking for remedies; unfailingly atten- 

 tive to every detail, always mindful of the large 

 question of policy; cogent and effective in debate, 

 generous toward the arguments of others. In the 

 university and in this faculty, as in the outer 

 world, he has stood for freedom of opinion and 

 expression. He has been a leader not through 

 ofScial position but by force of character and 

 intellect. His dealings with the teaching staff 

 have been open, equitable and liberal to the extent 

 of every available resource. His close contact 

 with the members of the faculty has deepened in 

 their hearts, with every added year of his long 

 term, confidence, admiration and warm regard; 

 and they now part from him with reluctance, but 

 with thankfulness for what has been achieved by 

 him and under him, and with faith that his work 

 will be maintained. 



THE WINNIPEG MEETING OF TEE BRITISH 

 ASSOCIATION ' 

 The local secretaries for the meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science beg to remind intending visitors from 

 the United States that members of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence will be admitted as full members of .the 

 British Association for the Winnipeg meeting 

 (and entitled to receive the volume of proceed- 

 ings), on payment of a fee of $5. The meet- 

 ing will be held from the twenty-fifth of Au- 

 gust to the first of September, inclusive, and it 

 is anticipated that a large number of visitors 

 from the United States, as well as from Can- 

 ada and Europe, will attend. It is important 



that those intending to be present should send 

 in their names to the local secretaries, Univer- 

 sity of Manitoba, Winnipeg, as soon as pos- 

 sible; printed matter bearing on the meeting 

 will gladly be furnished, as well as postcard 

 forms giving various details of use to the local 

 committee. The secretaries are in coiamuni- 

 cation with the various passenger associations 

 in connection with reduced fares via the 

 United States, but for the present no definite 

 statement can be given, except that the special 

 fares in force in connection with the exposi- 

 tion at Seattle may be taken advantage of. A 

 concession of single fare for the return jour- 

 ney has been secured on all Canadian railways, 

 and those entering Canada should be able to 

 obtain from the agent at the port of entry the 

 standard convention certificate enabling them 

 to secure this privilege. Circulars of informa- 

 tion upon this and other matters will be for- 

 warded upon application to the local secre- 

 taries. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Iha Eemsen, president of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Society for Chemical Industry fot 

 the meeting to be held next year in Glasgow. 



Mr. Lazarus Fletcher, F.E.S., the keeper 

 of the department of mineralogy since 1880, 

 has been appointed to the post of director of 

 the natural history departments of the British 

 Museum, vacant since the retirement of Dr. E. 

 Bay Lankester. 



Among the honorary degrees awarded by 

 Columbia University at its recent commence- 

 ment was that of master of science on Mr. B. 

 B. Lawrence, the mining engineer ; a doctorate 

 of science on Dr. S. E. Emmons, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey; a doctorate of letters on 

 Dr. Mary Whiton Calkins, professor of phi- 

 losophy and psychology at Wellesley College, 

 and a doctorate of laws on Dr. A. Lawrence 

 Lowell, president of Harvard University. 



New York University has ■ conferred its 

 doctorate of laws on Dr. Borden P. Bowne, 

 professor of philosophy in Boston University. 



Dr. S. O. Mast, associate in biology at the 

 Woman's College of Baltimore, has received 



