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1915 should be to attend the congress, travel 

 through Russia and Siberia and cross the 

 Pacific to our great World Exposition, thus 

 combining two unrivaled opportunities, the 

 like of vs^hich will never occur again. We are 

 the richest people on earth and the most am- 

 bitious; let us also become the best informed 

 and the most cosmopolitan : real " citizens of 

 the world." J. w. EiCHARDS 



Lehigh University 



continued in that office several years. Pro- 

 fessor Weber served four years on a com- 

 mittee appointed by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley for 

 the standardization of pure foods, and was the 

 author of a course in qualitative analysis that 

 passed through four editions. 



HENEY ADAM WEBEB 



Henry Adam Weber, professor in agricul- 

 tural chemistry, Ohio State University, and 

 widely known as an expert chemist, died at his 

 home in Columbus, June 14, after a brief ill- 

 ness from apoplexy. He had not been well for 

 some months and had not been actively en- 

 gaged in teaching. He was 67 years old. 



Professor Weber was born in Clinton Town- 

 ship, July 12, 1845. He studied at Otterbein 

 University. In 1863 he went to Germany to 

 complete his education and studied at the 

 University of Munich. He was one of the 

 early pupils of the eminent German chemist, 

 Justus von Liebig. 



Returning to America, he was given the de- 

 gree of doctor of philosophy by Ohio State 

 University in 1879. For several years Mr. 

 Weber served as assistant chemist for the 

 Ohio geological survey and then became pro- 

 fessor of chemistry in the University of Hli- 

 nois. He attracted wide attention by experi- 

 ments in the manufacture of sugar from 

 sorghum and held several patents. 



In 1884 he returned to Ohio and became 

 professor of agricultural chemistry at Ohio 

 State University, which position he held until 

 the time of his death, and in which he 

 achieved much work of note in the field of 

 agricultural and food chemistry. He held the 

 position of chief chemist of the state dairy and 

 food commission from 1884 to 1897. 



He was a fellow in the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, a mem- 

 ber of the Chemical Society and the Ohio 

 Academy of Science. He was the first presi- 

 dent of the Columbus Chemical Society and 



THE DEDICATION OF THE BICE 

 INSTITUTE 

 The president and trustees of the Rice 

 Institute have arranged an academic festival 

 from October 10 to 13 to dedicate the institu- 

 tion with appropriate ceremonies and to in- 

 augurate the educational program with a 

 series of lectures. These inaugural lectures 

 are as follows: 



* Professor Rafael Altamira y Crevea, of Mad- 

 rid, Spain; late Professor of the History of 

 Spanish Law in the University of Oviedo; Di- 

 rector of Elementary Education in the Spanish 

 Ministry of Public Instruction. 



* Prof essor Emile Borel, of Paris, Prance; 

 Director of Scientific Studies at the Ecole Nor- 

 male Supgrieure; Editor-in-Chief of La Eevue du 

 Mois; Professor of the Theory of Functions at 

 the University of Paris. 



Senator Benedetto Croce, of Naples, Italy; Life 

 Senator of the Italian Kingdom; Member of 

 various Eoyal Commissions; Editor of La Critica, 



* Professor Hugo de Vries, of Amsterdam, Hol- 

 land; Director of the Hortus Botanicus and Pro- 

 fessor of the Anatomy and Physiology of Plants 

 in the University of Amsterdam. 



* Professor Sir Henry Jones, of Glasgow, Scot- 

 land; Fellow of the British Academy; Professor 

 of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glas- 

 gow; Hibbert Lecturer on Metaphysics at Man- 

 chester College, Oxford. 



Privy Councillor Baron Dairoku Kikuehi, of 

 Tokyo, Japan; late Japanese Minister of Educa- 

 tion; formerly President of the University of 

 Tokyo, and later of the University of Kyoto; 

 recently Lecturer on Japanese Education at the 

 University of London. 



Professor John William Mackail, of London, 

 England; former Fellow of Balliol College, and 

 late Professor of Poetry in Oxford University. 



Privy Councillor Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of 

 Gross-Bothen, Germany; lat« Professor of Chem- 

 istry in the University of Leipsic; Nobel Laureate 

 in Chemistry, 1909. 



