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tlie Prencli war office. He also has one of the 

 three services, which he directs personally. 

 Dr. Crile will have free latitude in his own 

 service to carry it on in any way he may de- 

 sire. 



The personnel of the Western Reserve Uni- 

 versity expedition includes : 



Dr. George W. Crile, professor of surgery in 

 Western Eeserve University and visiting surgeon 

 of Lakeside Hospital. 



Dr. Samuel L. Ledbetter, Dr. Edward F. Kieger 

 and Dr. LeEoy B. Sherry, now of the resident 

 staff of Lakeside Hospital, who will act as assist- 

 ant surgeons and clinical assistants. 



Dr. Lyman F. Huffman, of the resident staff of 

 Lakeside Hospital, who will act as clinical pathol- 

 ogist. 



Dr. Charles W. Stone, assistant professor of 

 nervous diseases in Western Reserve University 

 and visiting neurologist of Lakeside Hospital. 



Miss Agatha Hodgins and Miss Mabel L. Little- 

 ton, anesthetists. 



Miss Iva B. Davidson and Miss Euth J. Eoberts, 

 from the operating room staff of Lakeside Hos- 

 pital. 



Dr. Crile takes with him also, to assist in a 

 special research, Hiss Amy F. Rowland, B.S., 

 Mt. Holyoke College, and William J. Crozier, 

 Ph.D., fellow of the department of zoology of 

 Harvard University. 



CHABLES SEDGWICK MINOT 

 At the meeting of the council of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence held in Philadelphia on December 29, a 

 minute was adopted in memory of Dr. Minot. 

 Dr. Eliot, who was in the chair, stated that he 

 had been associated with Dr. Minot for more 

 than thirty years in the work of the Harvard 

 Medical School and added a fit tribute of ap- 

 preciation. The minute, which was presented 

 by Professor Cattell and adopted by a rising 

 vote, is as follows: 



The eouncU of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science places on record its sense 

 of irreparable loss in the death of Charles Sedg- 

 wick Minot and its appreciation of the value of 

 his services to science, to education and to human 

 welfare. Endowed with the best New England 

 blood and traditions, trained there and in the 



schools of France and Germany, keen in intellect, 

 wise in counsel, sure in action, sincere in friend- 

 ship, he devoted his life to the advancement of 

 science, the improvement of education, and the 

 betterment of the agencies on which science and 

 education depend. His contributions to embryol- 

 ogy, anatomy and physiology gave him leadership 

 in those sciences; his high ideals of education 

 aided in advancing the standards of medicine in 

 America and in placing the Harvard Medical 

 School in its commanding position. Not only by 

 his original researches, by his masterly books and 

 by his fine addresses and lectures, but in cormtless 

 other ways he helped his fellow-workers in science 

 — in the construction of microtomes; in the estab- 

 lishment of a standard embryologieal collection ; 

 in the improvement of bibliographical and library 

 methods; in the unit system of laboratory con- 

 struction, followed in the beautiful buildings of 

 the Harvard Medical School; in the early develop- 

 ment of the Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Woods Hole; in the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, of which he was president for many 

 years and until his death; in the Wistar Institute 

 for Anatomy and Biology; in the administration 

 of the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund and the 

 Bache Fund of the National Academy of Sciences; 

 in international relations, as when visiting pro- 

 fessor to Germany and in the foreign publication 

 of his books; in the editing of Science and of 

 journals of anatomy, zoology and natural history; 

 in the founding and the conduct of the American 

 Society of Naturalists and the Association of the 

 American Anatomists; in the establishment of the 

 convocation week meetings of scientific societies; 

 for us especially by his leading part in the work 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, of which he was secretary of sec- 

 tion, general secretary, twice vice-president, presi- 

 dent, a constant member of the council, at the 

 time of his death chairman of the committee on 

 policy. In the American Association, as elsewhere, 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot leaves a vacant place 

 which can never be filled. We take up our work 

 sadly in his absence; but we know that it will in 

 all the years to come be more fruitful for the 

 heritage of his service. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the Philadelphia meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick 

 Observatory, was elected president for the 



