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by steadfast honesty of purpose and inherent modesty, 
combined to make him the greatest scientist of the 
age, the first exponent of the theory of human evolu- 
tion.’”’ [J. D. Q., Shrewsbury. ] 
“‘Charles Darwin, whose patient and acute observa- 
tion compelled Nature to reveal her great secret, the 
origin of species. 
‘He never turned one inch out of his course to gain 
fame.’’’ [W. E. T., Caterham. ]} 
“Charles Darwin, on patient experiment and 
observation, founded a theory of evolution, which, in 
explaining the successive appearance of more complex 
forms of life in the world’s history, has furnished a 
basis and example for all modern scientific investiga- 
tion.”? [J. D. A., Ealing. ] 
The men of letters who have, it may be as- 
sumed, written the above do not appear to ap- 
preciate very fully Darwin’s work. Can any of 
the readers of SCIENCE suggest a better inscrip- 
tion ? 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN, of the Commission to 
the Philippines, is returning to America, in ac- 
cordance with his original plans, and will 
arrive in August. Professor Worcester will for 
the present remain at Manila. 
Dr. G. AGAMENNONE has been appointed 
Director of the Geodynamic Observatory of 
Rocca di Papa, near Rome, as successor to the 
late Professor M.S. de Rossi. 
THE various field-parties in connection with’ 
the Geological Survey of Canada comprise the 
following staff, viz.: Mr. R. G. McConnell, Yu- 
kon Territory, Gold Mining District; Mr. R. 
W. Brock, Rossland Mining District and West 
Kootenay; Mr. J. McEvoy, East Kootenay 
Mining District ; Ontario Gold Fields, Mr. Wm. 
McInnes ; Ottawa Valley Mining District, Dr. 
R. W. Ells; Manitoba, Mr. D. B. Dowling; 
Great Slave Lake, Dr. Robert Bell; Nova 
Seotia Coal Mining Districts, Mr. Hugh 
Fletcher; Gold Mining Districts of Nova 
Scotia, Mr. E. R. Faribault. 
Henry B. KtUmMMEL, Pu.D., who has been 
assistant professor of physiography at Lewis 
Institute, Chicago, since the foundation of the 
Institute, has recently been appointed Assistant 
State Geologist of New Jersey. Dr. Kimmel 
has been an Assistant on the Survey for sev- 
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eral years, and for the last four years has de- 
voted his attention to a study of the Triassic of 
New Jersey, on which he has already pub- 
lished several papers. 
AT a special meeting of the court of Victoria 
University at Owens College, Manchester, on 
June 22d, the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Science was conferred on Dr. J. Clifford Allbutt, 
F. R. §., Regius professor of medicine at Cam- 
bridge University, and on Dr. H. E. Schunck, 
F. R. S., the author of numerous papers on the 
chemistry of organic coloring matter. 
Str WILLIAM TURNER THISELTON-DYER has 
been elected to an honorary studentship at 
at Christ Church College, Oxford. 
THE University of Dublin has conferred the 
degree of Doctor of Science on Professor A.R. 
Forsyth, Sadlerian professor of pure mathe- 
matics in Cambridge University. 
Mr. Joun R. Swanton, of Columbia Uni- 
versity, is visiting the Teton Indians of South 
Dakota, in order to carry on linguistic researches 
among this tribe. 
ProressoR MARK W. HARRINGTON, of the 
Weather Bureau, who has recently been assigned 
to stations in the West Indies, has resigned. 
WE regret to record the death, on July 2d, 
of Sir William Henry Flower. Sir William 
Flower was born at Stratford-on-Avon in 1831, 
and was educated at University College, Lon- 
don. He served as assistant surgeon during 
the Crimean War, and later was for two years 
assistant surgeon in the Middlesex Hospital. 
He then became conservator of the Museum of 
the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1870 he 
was elected Hunterian professor of anatomy. 
’ This chair he held until 1884, when he became 
Director of the British Museum of Natural His- 
tory. He resigned the directorship in 1898 on 
account of ill health. His contributions to 
science are numerous and important; chief 
among these are the ‘Introduction to the 
Osteology of Mammalia,’ the third edition of 
which appeared in 1885; ‘ Introduction to the | 
Study of Mammals, Living and Extinct’ (1891); 
‘The Horse, a Study of Natural History’ 
(1892) ; and ‘ Essays on Museums’ (1898). Sir 
William Flower was a Past President of the 
British Association for the Advancement of 
