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magnetism, a joyous appreciation of refined 

 humor, and was constantly in demand as a 

 lecturer. In the class-room he displayed ex- 

 ceptional power to arouse enthusiasm. He 

 was tactful and of judicial temper, a man 

 inspired with the highest ideals in the conduct 

 of life and possessed of unfailing patience, of 

 great tenderness of heart and kindliness of 

 spirit. He was beloved alike by colleagues and 

 students. 



Only a week ago, our friend was in the class- 

 room. Because of the tragic swiftness of his 

 passing — for just the other day he seemed to 

 us but in the prime of bodily and mental 

 yigor — a pregnant hush of introspection per- 

 vades the academic community. This after- 

 noon his body was borne to his native city. 

 ' ' Warte nur, balde 

 Euheat du auch. ' ' 



E. C. Akohibald 



Bkown Univebsitt, 

 January 10, 1914 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The fourth annual award of the Willard 

 Gibbs Medal, founded by Mr. William A. 

 Converse, will be made by the Chicago Section 

 of the American Chemical Society to Dr. Ira 

 Eemsen, of Johns Hopkins University. The 

 previous recipients of this medal are Professor 

 Svante Arrhenius, Professor Theodore W. 

 Eichards and Dr. Leo H. Baekeland. The 

 formal presentation will be made to Dr. 

 Eemsen at the May meeting of the Chicago 

 Section of the American Chemical Society. 

 Dr. Eemsen has formally signified his accept- 

 ance of this award. The jury of award 

 which selected Dr. Eemsen comprised Mr. 

 William Brady, Mr. G. Thumauer, Dr. E. C. 

 Franklin, Dr. W. E. Whitney, Professor J. H. 

 Long, Professor J. Stieglitz, Professor Alex- 

 ander Smith, Professor W. A. Noyes, Mr. E. 

 B. Bragg, Mr. S. T. Mather, Professor W. H. 

 Walker and Professor T. W. Eichards. 



At the recent meeting of the American 

 Physical Society at Atlanta, in connection 

 with the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, the following officers 

 were elected for 1914: President, Ernest Mer- 



ritt, of Cornell University; Vice-president, 

 Karl E. Guthe, of the University of Michigan ; 

 Secretary, A. D. Cole, of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity; Treasurer, J. S. Ames, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University; Members of Council, 

 G. K. Burgess, of the Bureau of Standards, 

 and D. C. Miller, of the Case School of Sci- 

 ence; Managing Editor of Physical Review, 

 F. Bedell, of Cornell; Editorial Board, A. G. 

 Webster, of Clark University, C. E. Menden- 

 hall, of the University of Wisconsin, and H. A. 

 Bumstead, of Tale University. The next two 

 meetings of the Physical Society will be at 

 Columbia University, New York, on February 

 28, and at the Bureau of Standards, Washing- 

 ton, on April 24 and 25. 



Dr. August Weismann, professor of zoology 

 at Freiburg, celebrated on January 17 his 

 eightieth birthday. 



The Imperial Society of the Friends of 

 Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnology, 

 of Moscow, have elected Professor W. M.. 

 Davis to permanent membership. 



The Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. 

 Petersburg has elected Sir Edward Thorpe as 

 a corresponding member. 



Professor Silvanus P. Thompson has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences of Bologna. 



Professor Johannes Orth, head of the 

 pathological laboratory at the University of 

 Berlin, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the London Institute of Hygiene. 



Dr. Joseph T. Eothrock, who is now 

 seventy-four years old, has resigned as a mem- 

 ber of the Pennsylvania State Forestry Board 

 after serving for twenty years, in order to 

 devote more time to private work. 



Octave Chanute medals have been awarded 

 by the Western Society of Engineers for the 

 best three papers presented during the year 

 1913 as follows: mechanical and electrical 

 engineering, Mr. W. L. Abbott on "The 

 Northwest Station of the Commonwealth Edi- 

 son Company " ; general engineering, Mr. 

 Onward Bates on " Arbitration " ; civil engi- 

 neering, Mr. D. W. Mead on " The Cause of 



