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organized at his own expense a Department 

 of Applied Electricity; in 1888 he organ- 

 ized the Department of Engineering Prac- 

 tice, in both cases contributing liberally 

 toward the equipment and endowment of 

 the new chairs. In 1892 he placed an ad- 

 ditional $20,000 in the hands of the trustees 

 for this last-named department. Later, 

 at the celebration of the twenty-fifth an- 

 niversary of the organization of the insti- 

 tution, he gave it about $25,000, in 1900 

 $15,000 and again in 1901, $50,000. His 

 total contributions to the funds of the 

 college probably amounted to $150,000, in- 

 cluding numerous small and unrecorded 

 gifts of apparatus. 



President Morton in 1878 was elected a 

 member of the U. S. Lighthouse Board, fill- 

 ing the vacancy produced by the death of 

 Professor Henry. He was a member of 

 the National Academy of Sciences from 

 1873. He was Ph.D. (Dickinson, 1869, 

 Princeton, 1870) and in 1897 was made 

 D.Sc. (Pennsylvania) and LL.D. (Prince- 

 ton). He was a member of many learned 

 and technical associations, at home and 

 abroad. 



The personal character of President Mor- 

 ton compelled respect and admiration. 

 Cultured, scholarly, acute and brilliant, he 

 exhibited in every way intellectual superi- 

 ority. Broad-minded, of good judgment 

 and possessing unusual force, his moral 

 side was admirable and impressive. He 

 was generous to a fault, liberal in senti- 

 ment, and devout. At home in all social 

 relations and adapting himself to any so- 

 ciety, he influenced strongly every person 

 with whom he came in contact and his wel- 

 come was warmest in the most intellectual 

 gatherings. His fine personality and his 

 earnestness in the pursuit of his lofty aim 

 compelled the sympathy and induced the 

 active cooperation of Mr. Carnegie, and the 

 most important and most valuable and pro- 

 ductive of accessions to the equipment of 



his college was the recently erected 'Car- 

 negie Engineering Laboratory.' He was 

 himself generous to a fault in other direc- 

 tions than the promotion of technical edu- 

 cation, and his friends and neighbors, both 

 at his home in Hoboken and in his summer 

 home at Pine Hills, testify to his constant 

 and liberal contributions to all good works ; 

 so quietly and unobtrusively were these 

 private philanthropies conducted, that it is 

 probable that very few of his friends were 

 aware of their extent. 



The death of President Morton is an 

 event of serious importance as a loss to 

 science, to the cause of education and to 

 a large social circle ; it is a catastrophe for 

 the institution over which he presided for 

 so many years and which he brought to 

 such a prominent position among profes- 

 sional schools, and to his family and friends. 

 He will always have a memorial in his valu- 

 able contributions to science, and the 

 already famous school organized by him 

 will permanently stand a monument of 

 larger real value and importance than that 

 construction which commemorates its archi- 

 tect with the inscription 'Si monumentum 

 requiris, circumspice. ' 



K. H. Thurston. 



SCIENTIFIC B00E8. 

 Hygiene for Students. By Edward F. Will- 



OUGHBY, M.D. London, Macmillan & Co. 



1901. Pp. 563. 



This excellent volume appears under a 

 new title, but is in reality a fourth enlarged 

 and improved edition of his 'Principles of 

 Hygiene' first published in 1884. Dr. Will- 

 oughby needs no introduction to the American 

 reader, since he has been for a number of 

 years the European editor in charge of the 

 Department of Hygiene and Public Health in 

 the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 

 and we may expect therefore that he speaks 

 authoritatively on all matters pertaining to his 

 specialty. The volume is divided into six 

 parts and twenty chapters. Part I. deals 



