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ment of engineering, a profound student of river 

 hydraulics, a faithful servant of the United States 

 government for thirty-eight years, and distin- 

 guished as the builder of the great jetties at the 

 mouth of the Mississippi River. 



THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS 



Doctor William Henry Howell, of Johns Hopkins 

 University, professor of histology and physiology 

 in the University of Michigan from 1890 to 1892, 

 distinguished teacher and investigator, a physiolo- 

 gist of the first rank. 



Professor Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, of 

 the class of 1882, for many years a member of the 

 historical staff of his alma mater, now professor 

 and head of the department of history in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, a distinguished teacher whose 

 published contributions have placed him in the 

 front rank of American historical scholars. 



Doctor James Playfair McMurrich, for thirteen 

 years professor of anatomy in the University of 

 Michigan, now professor of anatomy in the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, distinguished as a teacher and 

 for learned contributions to the sciences of biology 

 and anatomy. 



Henry Smith Carhart, for over twenty years 

 professor of physics in the University of Michigan, 

 now a worthy recipient of the honors of the Car- 

 negie Foundation, distinguished as scholar and 

 author and for his service in the cause of inter- 

 national electrical units and standards of meas- 

 urements. 



Robert Simpson "Woodward, a graduate of the 

 University of Michigan in the class of 1872, since 

 1905 the president of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, engineer, astronomer, geographer, 

 physicist, a renowned investigator of problems in 

 the solution of which the whole world is interested. 



THE FVNESAL OF M. POINCABE 

 The funeral of M. Henri Poincare took 

 place on July 19. After religious ceremonies 

 at the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas 

 the procession passed to the cemetery of 

 Montparnasse, where eulogies were delivered 

 by the minister of public instruction, speak- 

 ing for the government and the university, 

 M. Claretie for the French Academy, M. Appell 

 for the Faculty of Science, by M. Bigourdan 

 for the Bureau of Longitudes, by M. Painleve 

 for the Academy of Sciences and General 

 Cornille for the Polytechnic School. From 



Nature we learn that the pall-bearers were 

 MM. Guist'hau, minister of public instruc- 

 tion, Jules Claretie, Lippmann, Appell, Bi- 

 gourdan, General Cornille, Painleve and 

 Zeiller. The hearse was covered with wreaths 

 which had been sent by the staff and teachers 

 of the Ecole Polytechnique, the Faculty of 

 Science, the French Physical Society, the Ob- 

 servatory of Meudon, the Association of 

 Pupils and Past Pupils of the Faculty of 

 Science, the General Association of Students, 

 the French League of Moral Education, etc. 

 The chief mourners were MM. Leon Poin- 

 care, son of the deceased; Emile Boutroux, his 

 brother-in-law; Raymond Poincare, President 

 of the Ministerial Council, and Lucien Poin- 

 care, Director of Secondary Education and 

 Minister of Public Instruction, his cousins. 

 There were also present: Captain Grand- 

 clement, representing the president of the re- 

 public; MM. Antonin Dubost, president of 

 the senate; Klotz, minister of finance, and 

 Lebrun, minister for the colonies; the repre- 

 sentatives of the president of the chamber, 

 MM. Steeg, Fernand David, Briand, Jean 

 Dupay, Pams, Rene Besnard and Leon 

 Berard, members of the government; the 

 delegacy of the French Academy, consisting 

 of MM. Jules Claretie, director; Henri 

 Eoujon, treasurer; Thureau-Dangin, perma- 

 nent secretary; Denys Cochin, the Marquis de 

 Segur, Masson, and Marcel Prevost; the 

 delegacy of the Academy of Sciences, consist- 

 ing of MM. Lippmann, president, Darboux 

 and van Tieghem, permanent secretaries; 

 Emile Picard, Painleve, Humbert, members 

 of the section of geometry; the members of 

 the higher council of public instruction, the 

 members of the council of the university; the 

 delegacy of the professors of the faculty of 

 science, consisting of MM. Andoyer, Goursat, 

 Koenigs, Abraham, Cartan, Borel, Pinseux, 

 Houssaye and Perrin; a delegacy of members 

 of the corps des mines, of the bureau des 

 longitudes, of the association of pupils and 

 past pupils of the faculty of science; Sir J. 

 Larmor, senior secretary, and Mr. Dyson, 

 representing the Eoyal Society of London; 

 the mayor and the deputy-mayors of the fifth 



