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localities of meteorites are an important fea- 

 ture in the determination of their relations, 

 and m.uch confusion has often been caused by 

 efforts to determine whether differently named 

 meteorites belong to single falls. Professor 

 Ward's catalogues will long remain probably 

 the best authority in these matters. Of his 

 last great collection of meteorites, it is enough 

 to say that it contains representatives of more 

 falls than any other collection in the world, 

 and its weight compares well with the largest. 

 The collection thus is, as he desired it should 

 be, the crowning achievement of his life in 

 this direction, and other collectors can bear 

 witness to the fact that he left little un- 

 gathered. 



Aside from his contributions to science. 

 Professor Ward will long be remembered for 

 his charming personality. The writer's ac- 

 quaintance with Professor Ward was con- 

 fined to the later years of his life, but it 

 was a privilege which he highly esteemed. 

 As a raconteur Professor Ward had few 

 equals. His many years of travel, his native 

 humor, shrewdness and business sense gave 

 him a wealth of observation and philosophy 

 from which to draw tales that were of the 

 most delightful and instructive character. A 

 letter from Professor Ward, too, was always a 

 delight. Few ever combined more humor and 

 philosophy, shrewdness and science in a single 

 epistle than Professor Ward was accustomed 

 to do, and it is to be hoped that some col- 

 lection of these writings of his may be made. 

 Professor Ward's knowledge of languages, ob- 

 tained through years of travel, greatly facili- 

 tated his work as a collector. He gained a 

 knowledge of French in his early years through 

 study in Paris, and later travel acquainted 

 him with German, Spanish and several other 

 languages. His knowledge of Spanish was 

 sufficient on a recent visit to Chile to enable 

 him to lecture in that language on the sub- 

 ject of meteorites to the students of the School 

 of Mines in Santiago. 



Professor Ward also rendered great service 

 to science in his earlier years through the 

 Natural Science Establishment which he 

 founded. His work in this regard was epochal 



in creating and developing an interest in 

 natural history museums in this country. The 

 value of the educational influences which he 

 thus set in motion can only be seen in part 

 as yet. While this work bore a more or less 

 commercial aspect, this was by no means Pro- 

 fessor Ward's only interest in it, and that he 

 was able throughout his life to serve the cause 

 of pure science was a source of satisfaction 

 to him and fortunate for the world. 



Oliver C. Farrington. 



FRITZ 8GHAUDINN. 



The untimely death of Dr. Fritz Schaudinn, 

 at Hamburg on June 22, removes from service 

 one of the most brilliant of the younger gen- 

 eration of biologists, and one who, by careful 

 and conscientious work, has made a name for 

 himself that will endure. Neither an old nor 

 a young man, Schaudinn has, before the age 

 of thirty-five years, done more solid and last- 

 ing work of a pioneer nature than any other 

 of his generation, and so wide has been his 

 range of activity that he will be equally missed 

 in the fields of general biology, cytology, zool- 

 ogy and pathology. 



Schaudinn's work has been mainly on the 

 unicellular organisms, the protozoa, although 

 he did not confine his investigations to this 

 field. We find his name, for example, in con- 

 nection with strictly zoological work on 

 Tasdigrades of the Arctic region, and Anky- 

 lostoma in the mining regions of Westphalia. 

 In another direction we find him bringing his 

 keen observation and power of experimenta- 

 tion to bear upon the problem of bacteria 

 structure, while in general executive work his 

 energy w^s given to editorial duties in con- 

 nection with Das Tierreich and the ArcMv 

 fur ProtistenJcunde, of which he was the origi- 

 nator and sole editor. 



In the field of pathology Schaudinn has be- 

 come the foremost and final authority on the 

 disease-causing protozoa. Beginning with the 

 discovery of Leydenia gemmipara in the 

 ascites fluid of patients suffering with malig- 

 nant tumors, he has been one of the most 

 careful and at the same time the most brilliant 

 investigators in this most difficult field of re- 



