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institution, and when our universities are 

 controlled and supported by the state and 

 when there is only one university in a re- 

 gion, it seems to me that the university 

 should administer the libraries, museums, 

 research laboratories and the like, and that 

 the academy of sciences will be essentially 

 a part of the university. The national and 

 local societies for each branch of science 

 are the natural groups for meetings and 

 discussions and for publication. Member- 

 ship in an academy as an honor, the presi- 

 dency as a distinction, foreign members, 

 medals, prizes and the like, seem to me to 

 belong to the childhood of science. So long 

 as we are still in this state let us rejoice in 

 our innocence, but what is charming in the 

 child is intolerable in the man. 



Has the academy of sciences then played 

 its part in the world? Must it, like the 

 mastodon and elephant, give way to organ- 

 isms better suited to a changed environ- 

 ment ? I have already indicated that I be- 

 lieve the academy to have important if 

 modest functions, and have stated what I 

 think them to be. They are essentially 

 those of a guild. We need a center in each 

 community for organization and social in- 

 tercourse. As capitalists unite in coi-pora- 

 tions and laborers in trades unions, so men 

 of science should unite in their academies. 

 We should not profess unselfish philan- 

 thropy, but we may reasonably claim that 

 whatever is accomplished to improve the 

 condition of men of science, to increase 

 their influence or to forward their work, 

 is of benefit to the community and for the 

 welfare of society. 



J. McKeen Cattell. 



Columbia "Univei!S1ty. 



ANNUAL ADDBE8S OF THE PRESIDENT OF 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY.* 



President Huggins said that since the 

 last anniversary the Society had lost by 



* From the. London Times. 



death nine Fellows and two foreign mem- 

 bers. The deceased Fellows were Sir 

 Joseph Gilbert, died December 23, 190-1, 

 aged 84 ; the Marquis of Dutferin and Ava, 

 died February 12, aged 75 ; Maxwell Simp- 

 son, died February 25, aged 86 ; Sir Richard 

 Temple, died March 15, aged 76; George 

 P. Wilson, died March 28, aged 80; Sir 

 Frederick A. Abel, died September 6, aged 

 75 ; Dr. John Hall Gladstone, died October 

 6, aged 75; William Henry Barlow, died 

 November 12, aged 90; Sir William C. 

 Roberts-Austen, K.C.B., died November 

 22, aged 59. The foreign members were 

 Alfred Cornu, died April 12, aged 61 ; Ru- 

 dolf Virchow, died September 5, aged 80. 

 Not the Royal Society only, but mankind, 

 he said, had sustained grievous loss by the 

 deaths of two of the foreign members. 

 Rudolf Virchow left a record of intellec- 

 tual achievement unsurpassed in its high 

 distinction and value, its exceptional and 

 sustained vigor during a life unusually 

 prolonged, and its remarkable variety. In 

 his own country Virchow would be remem- 

 bered not only as the distinguished pioneer 

 in pathological science, but also as an influ- 

 ential politician and a great social and 

 municipal reformer. He had been many 

 times in England. He was present at the 

 Medical Congress held in London in 1881. 

 In the Croonian lecture, delivered before 

 this Society in 1893, he reviewed, in his 

 own masterly way, the progress of patho- 

 logical physiology. Five years later he 

 gave the Huxley lecture at the Charing- 

 cross Medical School, when he took for his 

 subject 'Recent Advances in Physiology'; 

 Lord Lister and Sir James Paget being 

 present to do him honor. At the celebra- 

 tion of his 80th birthday at Berlin, in 1901, 

 the Royal. Society was represented by Lord 

 Lister. Virchow was born in 1821. He 

 was elected a foreign member of the Royal 

 Society in 1884 ; eight years later the Royal 

 Society conferred upon him their highest 



