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often astonishing. She was a pioneer in scientific 
management in the case of the individual as well 
as of the institution and aimed for the maximum 
of efficiency for the individual and the race. 
Environment as expressed in food, shelter and 
clothing was but the means to an end, the better- 
ment of the race. 
Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, first principal of the 
Boston Cooking School, told of Mrs. Richards’s 
help in the early days of that institution (now 
merged with Simmons Oollege), how she 
sometimes lectured at the school and more 
often the pupils went to her. At a later period 
when Mrs. Lincoln was preparing a text-book 
for public schools, Mrs. Richards gave advice 
and read proof. “ Be careful, that may not be 
so in ten years,” “Better say, ‘so far as we 
know now,’” were some of her comments 
which prove how her own words were to be 
trusted. 
Of particular interest was the announce- 
ment made by Mrs. Caroline Weeks Barrett, 
chairman of the Ellen H. Richards Home Eco- 
nomics Fund committee. This committee is 
soon to make definite announcement regarding 
the memorial to Mrs. Richards which will take 
the form of a fund to be administered for re- 
search and publication for advancing the in- 
terests of the home. 
We could not think of putting up a dead thing 
as a memorial to Mrs. Richards, a bronze tablet 
or even a building. She was a living argument 
for home economics. How shall we keep her 
alive? We must give her earthly immortality 
through a living memorial, something which shall 
continue to do Mrs. Richards’s work with Mrs. 
Richards’s spirit. For this woman who believed 
in the impossible and helped it to come to pass it 
is not impossible for us to raise a hundred thou- 
sand dollars in dollar subscriptions from those who 
have felt her influence, to be invested by a board 
of trustees and used under their direction to estab- 
lish the Journal of Home Economics and later for 
lectureships, research and publication according to 
the needs of the time. The collection of funds by 
personal canvass is soon to be initiated in a 
country-wide campaign which will enlist commit- 
tees numbering over a thousand persons who will 
seek this uniform democratic contribution from 
men and women interested in advancing the wel- 
fare of the home through a memorial to this 
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woman who as scientist and social engineer did 
so much for the home. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Aone the British New Year’s honors are 
knighthoods conferred on Professor W. F. 
Barrett, F.R.S., formerly professor of physics - 
in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, and 
Professor E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., emeritus pro- 
fessor of anthropology in the University of 
Oxford. 
M. Lippman has been elected president, and 
Professor Guyon vice-president, of the Paris 
Academy of Sciences. 
THE Academy of Sciences at Bologna has 
awarded the Elie de Cyon prize of 3,000 lire 
to Professor E. A. Sehiafer, of Edinburgh. 
THE senate of St. Andrews University has 
resolved to confer honorary degrees in ab- 
sentia upon gentlemen chosen for the degrees 
on the occasion of the celebration of the five 
hundredth anniversary of the foundation of 
the university in September last, but who 
were unable to be present. Among them is 
Dr. Charles D. Walcott, geologist, and secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Cotumpia University has designated as 
Jesup lecturer for 1912-13 Professor H. T. 
Morgan, of the department of zoology. His 
lectures will be delivered at the American 
Museum of Natural History. Professor W. 
P. Montague, of the department of philosophy, 
has been appointed to deliver the Hewitt lec- 
tures at Cooper Union in the spring of 1913. 
Mr. Raymonp A. Pearson has resigned the 
office of commissioner of agriculture of the 
state of New York. 
Proressor JoHN B. Watson, of the Johns 
Hopkins University, has recently been granted 
a three years’ appointment as a research as- 
sociate of the Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
ington, in order that he may study the mi- 
gratory and other instincts of the sea-gulls of 
the Tortugas, Florida. 
Aw expedition to Montego Bay, Jamaica, is 
about to be undertaken by the department of 
marine biology of the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington. In addition to the director, the 
