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average will be much better by the thorough co- 

 operation and harmonious relations which come 

 from mutual respect and mutual acceptance of one 

 another's ideas. 



Possibly a president ought to have appeal to a 

 corporation over the faculty. An emergency 

 might arise in which this power might be neces- 

 sary; but a president will be very wise to use that 

 power rarely. I never have used it, and it would 

 be an extreme case in which I should do so. If 

 a measure were adopted by the faculty of which 

 I thoroughly disapproved, which I could not carry 

 before the trustees with my recommendation, I 

 should ask the faculty to appoint a committee to 

 present that subject to the trustees, so that the 

 faculty should have full representation of their 

 view. I might be obliged to dissent from that 

 view, and then the trustees must exercise their 

 final responsibility. 



In conclusion, I think it is important that all 

 the members of the instructional force shall know 

 why a thing is done. If there is a senate above 

 the men, and that senate takes the initiative and 

 passes acts which have been opposed by the faculty 

 as a whole, there is dissension; if, on the other 

 hand, everybody has been given opportunity to 

 express his views fully, then every man feels: 

 " I had my opportunity to express what I had to 

 say; the faculty has voted so and so; that stands 

 as the university action and I will support it." 

 I may be in a somewhat extreme position in re- 

 gard to this matter; I would have not only perfect 

 liberty upon the part of all our members of a 

 faculty, but I would have unity and concentration 

 of power in a single faculty for general educa- 

 tional policies. 



PROFESSOR HENRY A. WARD. 

 Within a little more than a year two great 

 students of meteorites have passed away. Pro- 

 fessor E. Cohen, of Greifswald, who died on 

 April 13, 1905, made studies of the structure 

 and composition of the iron meteorites which 

 marked an important advance in our knowl- 

 edge of these bodies, and his writings on 

 meteorites in general were monumental in 

 character. Professor Henry A. Ward, who 

 died on July 4, 1906, was the world's greatest 

 collector of meteorites, and made also im- 

 portant contributions to the science of the 

 subject. Both left projected plans incomplete. 

 Professor Cohen's ' Meteoritenkunde ' was 

 purposed to be a work of six volumes, of which 



only three were completed at the time of his 

 death. Professor Ward had practically com- 

 pleted a last great collection, but he had in 

 preparation a large work in three volumes 

 descriptive of the collection and covering the 

 subject of meteorites in general, which was 

 only partially finished. Aside from his work 

 as a collector Professor Ward had naade im- 

 portant contributions to our knowledge of 

 meteorites which will always be of value. Per- 

 haps his greatest service, and one which he 

 rendered as no other could, was that of visit- 

 ing remote corners of the earth to obtain exact 

 and complete knowledge of meteorites whose 

 existence had been hitherto only partially veri- 

 fied. His latest work of this kind was per- 

 haps one of the most important. This was a 

 trip to Santa Eosa, United States of Colombia, 

 to gain exact knowledge regarding an iron 

 meteorite concerning which little was known 

 since the mention of it in 1824 by Boussin- 

 gault. This trip he had long had in mind and 

 had partially undertaken at other times, but 

 he had not been successful in carrying out 

 his purpose until the present year. He ob- 

 tained about 300 pounds of this meteorite and 

 full information regarding both it and the 

 adjoining meteorite of Rasgata, which had 

 been much confused with it in literature. It 

 is to be hoped that his notes regarding this 

 meteorite are sufficiently preserved so that a 

 record will be saved to science. Other im- 

 portant meteorites which he ' rescued ' in a 

 similar manner were those of Bacubirito in 

 Mexico and Veramin in Persia. The acquisi- 

 tion of the latter meteorite required a visit to 

 the Shah himself, for which Professor Ward's 

 native address and diplomacy served him in 

 good stead. For tasks of this character Pro- 

 fessor Ward was fitted as few others ever have 

 been, for his wide knowledge of the world in a 

 geographic sense enabled him to penetrate to 

 the remotest regions and secure exact informa- 

 tion. The meteorite catalogues which he has 

 published from time to time have also been 

 peculiarly useful in the accuracy of the loca- 

 tions given, since this accuracy came from a 

 personal knowledge of localities on the part 

 of Professor Ward. This is a service to sci- 

 ence which was especially needed, since the 



