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and at the Pennsylvania State College, and as 

 director of the Maine Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. With this wealth of training and ex- 

 perience, in addition to his high scientific ideals, 

 his indomitable courage, his unflagging zeal for 

 truth his sound judgment in the selection of 

 associates, and his unswerving loyalty to the best 

 interests of agriculture, he has made a profound 

 and lasting impression on the agriculture of this 

 state. 



The outstanding feature of his long service in 

 the interest of agriculture has been his strict 

 adherence to the dictates of science without re- 

 gard to popular esteem or favor. Strong as the 

 temptation has been for an administrator to popu- 

 larize the work of his institution at the expense 

 of its research. Professor Jordan, in his adminis- 

 tration of the station, has held strictly to the 

 original purpose and object of the institution unin- 

 fluenced by considerations of popular favor. Under 

 his wise and capable administration, the New Tork 

 Agricultural Experiment Station has attained a 

 leading position among the agricultural experiment 

 stations of the world. 



Professor Jordan's connection with this college 

 as professor of animal nutrition dates only from 

 June 22, 1920, but his interest in the institution 

 and his hearty and cordial cooperation have ex- 

 tended through all the twenty-flve years that he 

 has been director of the experiment station at 

 Geneva. Accordingly there has always existed be- 

 tween these two institutions such close and grati- 

 fying cooperation in the prosecution of investi- 

 gation and research that their work has ever 

 been supplementary and unnecessary duplication of 

 effort has been avoided. 



In spite of all the multiplicity of duties which 

 naturally come to an outstanding figure in agricul- 

 ture, Professor Jordan has always found time to 

 continue his own scholarly work in animal nutri- 

 tion and to advise critically with members of his 

 staff on a wide variety of highly technical sub- 

 jects. His keenly analytical mind, his sound judg- 

 ment, his unusual administrative ability, and, 

 above all, his lofty personal ideals and breadth 

 of vision, have endeared him to his colleagues and 

 associates. He has richly earned the relief which 

 retirement from active service brings, and we, his 

 colleagues, wish him many years in which to enjoy 

 the privileges of the contemplative life which is 

 now his. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the recent Montreal meeting of the 

 Society of Chemical Industry, Dr. Robert F. 

 Euttan, MacDonald professor of chemistry at 

 McGill University, was elected president in 

 succession to Sir William Pope. 



The University of Edinburgh has conferred 

 the degree of doctor of laws on Dr. Irving 

 Langmuir, of the research laboratory of the 

 General Electric Company, Schenectady, who 

 at the meeting of the British Association in 

 that city opened the discussion on " The 

 Structure of Molecules." 



Professor Edward W. Berry, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, has been elected a fellow, 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences. 



Dr. James M. Anders has been elected 

 president of the American Therapeutic Society 

 for the ensuing year. Dr. Anders was also 

 recently elected president of the American 

 College of Physicans. 



Baron R. von Hugel has resigned the 

 curatorship of the Museum of Archeology and 

 Ethnology of the University of Cambridge 

 and Dr. A. C. Haddon, Christ's College, has 

 been appointed deputy curator. 



Thomas Forsyth Hunt, dean of the college 

 of agriculture. University of California, has 

 resumed his office after a year's stay in Europe, 

 spent in part at Eome as the delegate of the 

 United States to the International Institute 

 of Agriculture. 



Harry D. Kjtson, professor of psychology 

 at Indiana University, has returned from 

 Europe where he conferred with investigators 

 in industrial psychology in England, France, 

 Germany and Switzerland. 



Professor Wh^liam S. Cooper, of the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, is making a study of the 

 - recession of the Muir Glacier at Glacier Bay, 

 Alaska. 



Mr. Montague Free, horticulturist and 

 head gardener of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, returned recently from England where 

 he visited Kew and various other public and 

 private gardens. In the course of the trip. 



