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His tlionghtfulness of others was always 

 uppermost in his mind, and many a man had 

 cause to thank him for pecuniary help, which 

 was always made available in such a way that 

 the most sensitive could not feel any hurt to 

 his pride. "Outside jobs" were frequent; very 

 often they were doubtless thought up by Pro- 

 fessor Howe himself, and they were always paid 

 for most generously. 



In 1874 he married Fannie Gay, of Troy, 

 who survives him. She was deeply interested 

 in his work and always accompanied him on 

 his travels and in his attendance at all scien- 

 tifie conventions. She so looked after him that 

 she helped him to conserve his energy for the 

 main purpose ; in fact, without her aid he could 

 never have accomplished all that he did. She 

 was as much interested in his students as he 

 was himself, and the little luncheons and 

 dinners at their home were affairs to 'te sought 

 after and remembered, for she knew us all by 

 name and also knew all our old instructors — 

 often from an angle new to us. 



An enthusiastic advocate of the cause of the 

 Allies, he served during the war and later as 

 chaii-man of the engineering division of the 

 National Research Council. He worked inces- 

 santly, and with his wonderful and extraor- 

 dinary energy and activity he accomplished a 

 great deal in the study of improved methods 

 of the open hearth process and the methods of 

 production of new alloy steels and their phys- 

 ical properties. 



In short, we can say of him that he was a 

 kindly gentleman, thoughtful of othei-s ; a great 

 scientist, greatly honored and yet most modest; 

 a remarkably clear writer with a gift of sim- 

 plicity of thought and diction; and, lastly, he 

 was undoubtedly the greatest of all the steel 

 metallurgists. 



Wm. Campbell 



Columbia University 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 



THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



THE SALT LAKE CITY MEETING 



The summer meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, to be 

 held at Salt Lake City, June 22 to 24, will be 

 a joint meeting of the American Association 



with the Pacific Division of the association. 

 This will be the seventy- fifth meeting of the 

 association and the sixth annual meeting of the 

 Pacific Division and its affiliated societies. The 

 illustrated preliminary announcement of the 

 meeting has recently been published and mailed 

 to all members of the association. 



The meeting will be held under the auspices 

 of the Pacific Division. Dr. Barton Warren 

 EveiTQann, president of the division, will pre- 

 side at the general sessions and will deliver 

 the presidential address at the opening session 

 on Thursday evening, June 22. The general 

 secretary of the association, Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, will represent the larger organization. 

 The hosts for this meeting are the University 

 of Utah, the Utah Academy of Sciences, the 

 Utah Agricultural College and the Brigham 

 Young University. Much valuable help is 

 being rendered by the City of Salt Lake, the 

 Union Pacific System, the Hotel Utah and the 

 Commercial Club of Salt Lake City. 



A glance at the preliminary announcement 

 shows that the Salt Lake City meeting will be 

 successful in every way, an interesting and 

 valuable meeting for all who attend. The city 

 itself is unusually interesting from many 

 view-points — scientific, educational, religious, 

 commercial, social and artistic. The vicinity is 

 famous for its agriculture and for its mining 

 activities. The summer climate is very enjoy- 

 able, with sunny days and cool nights. Oppor- 

 tunities for the pleasures of outdoor life are 

 furnished by the broad streets with their stately 

 shade-trees, the beautiful parks and boulevards, 

 the many canyons in the vicinity, and the 

 famous bathing beach on Great Salt Lake. 



The Hotel Utah is to be the official head- 

 quarters. No special railway rates will be 

 available for those who attend this summer 

 meeting, but advantage may be taken of the 

 extraordinarily reduced summer exctirsion tar- 

 iffs. The following examples give round-trip 

 rates to Salt Lake City from the places named : 

 From San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, 

 Berkeley, Fresno, San Jose and Los Angeles, 

 $48.82; from Denver, $36.10; from Omaha, 

 $50.25; from Kansas City, $50.25; from St. 

 Paul, $62.30; from Chicago, $60.00; from St. 

 Louis, $56.00; from Memphis, $73.60; from 

 New Orleans, $85.15; from Fort Worth, $64.15. 



