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ing into a profession demanding learning as 

 well as experience. 



Largely under his energetic direction, the 

 legal enactments of the empire for the pro- 

 vision of safeguards in the operation of steam- 

 engines and boilers took correct form and he 

 was appointed to important positions under 

 the laws enacted to secure their proper enforce- 

 ment. He taught his classes and he taught 

 his public with equal fruitfulness and zeal. 

 He was a teacher of the most admirable sort, 

 exact, clear-sighted, endowed with that imagi- 

 nation without which no teacher can instruct 

 and no investigator can either advance or help 

 others to advance in research, friendly and 

 patient, ambitious and aggressive, enduring 

 and persevering, a leader always in the front 

 rank and always beckoning from the van, 

 never pushing his men on from the rear. He 

 accomplished a notable life's work as in- 

 structor, investigator and author. 



In personality, Radinger was interesting, 

 attractive and impressive. The writer, as col- 

 league on the International Juries at Vienna 

 and at Philadelphia, 1873-1876, became greatly 

 interested in the quiet, yet earnest and en- 

 thusiastic, scholar, philosopher and teacher. 

 Inquiring into every detail of the, to him, as- 

 tonishingly numerous wonders of invention 

 and construction in the 'Yankee sections'; 

 noting each device, its form, proportions and 

 special construction and finish with the 

 greatest care; comparing its dimensions with 

 its work and the relation thus established by 

 its designer with that usual in his own 

 country; studying the methods of piece-work 

 and of manufacture by production of inter- 

 changeable parts; excited over the marvelous 

 watchmaking illustrated at the Centennial, or, 

 after the jury had adjourned for the day, 

 wandering in the art galleries and the halls of 

 sculpture, or into the exhibits of the great 

 publishers in search of interesting text or fine 

 bindings, the broad grasp and unbounded in- 

 tellect of the man were always revealed. 



He was one of those generous men who, at 

 the Vienna exposition, admitted the right of 

 George Corliss to the 'Ehren Diplom,' al- 

 though not a steam-engine of his make was 

 exhibited. Radinger, von Grimburg, Eeu- 



leaux, Tresca, Dwelshauvers, Hartig, Schnei- 

 der of Creusot, and a few others, advocated 

 the highest award to the great American in- 

 ventor, as they agreed, on the ground that the 

 proof of his genius and of his enormous use- 

 fulness to the world was to be found in every 

 section in the whole exhibition; every section 

 contained one Corliss engine, and often several 

 exhibits illustrated the work of the great 

 mechanic. 



The teacher, the man of science, the man of 

 affairs, the investigator and author, the 

 noble, kindly, generous and judicial man, will 

 dwell in the memories of all who knew him 

 and will be mourned by his colleagues and his 

 friends as long as they live. His works will 

 long remain, monuments to his life, his labors 

 and his achievements. R. H. Thurston. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The spring meeting of the Council of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science will be held on Thursday afternoon, 

 April 17, in the Assembly Hall, Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Alexandee Agassiz, who is now in 

 Europe after his expedition to the Maldive 

 Islands in the Indian Ocean, will return in 

 time to preside at the meeting of the National 

 Academy of Sciences which will be held at 

 Washington next week. 



Dr. James E. Russell, dean of Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, has returned 

 from a tour of inspection of the school system 

 of Porto Rico, made at the invitation of the 

 Porto Rican government. 



Last year the Misses Caroline ^and Olivia 

 Phelps Stokes placed in the custody of the 

 New York Botanical Garden the sum of 

 $.3,000, the interest to be employed in efforts 

 to preserve our native flora. The income for 

 the current year was disposed of in the form of 

 three competitive prizes, of $50, $30 and $20 

 respectively, for the best essays on this subject. 

 The first of these prizes has just been awarded 

 to Dr. E. H. Knowlton, editor of The Plant 

 World. Dr. Knowlton's essay is printed in the 

 March number of the Journal of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



