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the Department of Physics, they were accepted 

 in behalf of the university by Eegent J. E. 

 Beal. The tablets were the gifts of former 

 students and colleagues and were inscribed as 

 follows : 



THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY 



FRIENDS AND FOEMEK STUDENTS OF 



JOHN OEEN EEED 



1856-1916 



PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND DEAN OF THE 



DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND 



THE ARTS, IN MEMORY OP HIS TWENTY-FOUR 



TEARS OF FAITHFUL SERVICE AS A TEACHER 



AND IN GRATITUDE FOR THE INSPIRATION GIVEN 



THEM BY HIS STAUNCHNESS OF CHARACTER 



AND BY HIS UNSWERVING DEVOTION 



TO TRUTH AND TO PROGRESS. 



MDCCCCXVII 



TO 

 KARL EUGEN GUTHE, PH.D., 



BORN MARCH 5, 1866. 



DIED SEPTEMBER 10, 1915. 



AN EMINENT PHYSICIST, A BELOVED TEACHER, 



PROFESSOR OP PHYSICS AND DEAN OP THE 



GRADUATE SCHOOL OP THIS UNIVERSITY 



THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY 



HIS STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES 



IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE 



MDCCCCXVII 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Adolf von Baeyer, professor of chemistry 

 at Munich, distinguished for his work on syn- 

 thetic indigo and in other directions, has died 

 at the age of eighty-two years. 



The death is also announced of Eduard 

 Buchner, professor of chemistry at Wiirzburg, 

 who died from wounds while serving as major 

 at the front. Dr. Buchner was distinguished 

 for his work on the chemistry of fermentation, 

 and was the recipient of the Ifobel prize for 

 chemistry in 1907. 



Dr. G. MiJLLER has been appointed director 

 of the astrophysical observatory at Potsdam, 

 in succession to the late Professor K. Schwarz- 

 schild. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected 

 the following eight members as a committee on 

 scientific research : Mil. A. Laveran, from the 

 section of medicine and surgery; Th. Schloes- 



ing, from the section of rural economy; Edm. 

 Perrier, from the section of anatomy and zool- 

 ogy; J. L. Guignard, from the section of bot- 

 any, and MM. G. Lipmann, E. Picard, A. 

 Gautier, A. Lacroix, from the academy at 

 large. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 prizes in mechanics and mathematics as fol- 

 lows: The Bordin prize of 3,000 frs. has been 

 awarded to M. Gaston Julia, now lieutenant 

 in the army; the Francoeur prize of 1,000 frs. 

 to M. Henri Villat, lecturer at Montpellier for 

 his publications on hydrodynamics ; the Mont- 

 yon prize of 700 frs. to M. Bene de Sausseure, 

 decent at Geneva, for his work in mechanics; 

 the Poneelet prize of 200 frs. to M. Jules 

 Andrade, professor at Besangon, for his work 

 in applied mechanics, especially chronometry. 



Dr. Henry J. Waters, Manhattan, Kans. ; 

 Leon S. Merrill, Orono, Me.; Dr. Edwin E. 

 Ladd, Eargo, E". D. ; and David E. Coker, 

 Hartsville, S. C, have been appointed state 

 food administrators by the federal government. 



Floyd R. Harrison, connected with the De- 

 partment of Agriculture since 1906 in various 

 capacities, has been appointed an assistant to 

 the Secretary of Agriculture during the pres- 

 ent emergency. 



Mr. F. F. Longley, a member of the firm of 

 sanitary engineers of Hazen and Whipple, has 

 been made a major and sent to France to as- 

 sume complete charge of the water supply for 

 the American forces. , 



Dr. Hugo Diemer, professor of industrial 

 engineering in the Pennsylvania State College, 

 has accepted a commission as major in the 

 Ordnance Section of the Ofiicers' Eeserve 

 Corps. 



The American Eed Cross has appropriated 

 $800,000 to meet sanitary emergencies in the 

 civilian areas surrounding army cantonments. 

 A bureau under the direction of Dr. W. H. 

 Frost, of the Public Health Service, will have 

 charge of the work. The Eed Cross will 

 undertake such sanitary management only by 

 request of the local organization in charge. 



Dr. Victor G. Heiser, director of the De- 

 partment of the East of the International 



