NovEeMBER 1, 1918] 
along the path of Leonardo, Kepler, Galileo, 
Huygens and Newton. 
Wittarp J. Fisher 
Worcester POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, 
THE SCIENTIFIC MEMBERS OF THE 
BRITISH EDUCATIONAL MISSION 
As has been noted in Scrence, the British 
government, on the invitation of the Council 
of National Defense, has sent to the United 
States a distinguished mission to inquire into 
the best means of procuring closer cooperation 
between British and American educational in- 
stitutions, to the end, greatly desired on both 
sides, of making increasingly firm the bonds of 
sympathy and understanding ‘that now unite 
the English-speaking world. 
The members of the mission are: 
Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, vice-chancellor of 
the University of Cambridge, master of Christ’s 
College and reader in zoology. 
Sir Henry Miers, vice-chancellor of the Univer- 
sity of Manchester and professor of erystallog- 
raphy. 
The Rev. Edward Mewburn Walker, fellow, sen- 
ior tutor and librarian of Queen’s College, member 
of the Hebdomadal Council, Oxford University. 
Sir Henry Jones, professor of moral philosophy, 
University of Glasgow. 
Dr. John Joly, professor of geology and mineral- 
ogy, Trinity College, Dublin. 
Miss Caroline Spurgeon, professor of English 
literature, Bedford College, University of London. 
Miss Rose Sidgwick, lecturer on ancient history, 
University of Birmingham. 
The proposed itinerary of the mission fol- 
lows: 
October 8—14—New York. 
on 15-17—Washington (Mt. Vernon). 
ne 18—Baltimore. 
a 19-21—Philadelphia (Bryn Mawr, Hav- 
erford). 
KA 22-23—Princeton. 
As 24—-New York (Vassar). 
a 25-26—New Haven. 
an 27—Amherst, Smith, Mt. Holyoke. 
ae 28-30—Boston and Cambridge (Welles- 
ley). 
we 31- 
November 2—Montreal (Ottawa). 
Bs 3- 5—Toronto (Niagara Falls). 
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as 6—Ann Arbor. 
ae 7-12—Chicago (Urbana, Evanston). 
fe 13-—14—Madison. 
oe 15-17—Minneapolis and St. Paul. 
oe 18—Des Moines (Ames). 
* 19-20—St. Louis. 
21—Cincinnati. 
22—TLexington, Ky. 
ce 23—(Louisville). 
Ut 24—Nashville. 
ef 25-28—New Orleans (Houston, Austin). 
‘¢ 29-30—Tuskegee. 
ge 31—Chapel Hill. 
December 1—Charlottesville. 
aire 2—Washington. 
ie 4— 7—Boston and Cambridge. 
The British Bureau of Information has pre- 
pared a statement concerning the members of 
the mission, and we give the biographical 
sketches of the scientific members. 
DR. ARTHUR EVERETT SHIPLEY 
Arthur Everett Shipley, Se.D., vice-chancel- 
lor of the University of Cambridge, is well 
known in the United States, in which he has 
on several occasions been an honored guest. 
He is an honorary D.Se. of Princeton Univer- 
sity, foreign member of the American Asso- 
ciation of Economic Entomologists and of the 
Helminthological Society of Washington. Dr. 
Shipley is a member of the Central Medical 
War Committee of Great Britain. He holds 
many offices of great responsibility, being, for 
example, a trustee of the great collection of 
specimens illustrative of many branches of 
science which was made by John Hunter, pur- 
chased by the government after his death in 
1793, and presented to the Royal College of 
Surgeons; a trustee of the Tancred Foundation 
established by Christopher Tancred (1689- 
1754) of Whixley Hall in the County of York, 
to provide studentships in divinity and in 
physic; a trustee of the Beit Memorial Fund 
for fellowships for medical research; chairman 
of the Council of the Marine Biological Asso- 
ciation; vice-president of the Linnean Society; 
member of the Re ra1)Commission on the Civil 
Service. In 1887 he was sent to the Bermudas 
by the Colonia}/ Offite to investigate a plant 
disease. He wasslalgo commissioned by the 
