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of his youth, the strength of his manhood and 

 the counsel of his riper years. 



Tlie American Chemical Society has lost a mem- 

 ber who through both his experimental researches 

 and his theoretical studies and especially by his 

 now classical work on reaction velocities has made 

 unusual contributions to the advancement of the 

 science for the promotion of which this society 

 exists. These distinguished services have placed 

 all who are interested in chemistry under lasting 

 obligations, and his name will be honored so long 

 as this science is cultivated. 



The student of chemistry has lost a friend who 

 was always ready to extend a helping hand and to 

 contribute freely from his rare store of knowledge 

 and extended experience. 



The community has lost a man who by his civic 

 virtues, his high ideals, his willingness to as- 

 sume and faithfulness to perform duties of an 

 unusually trying kind, his catholicity of views 

 and of interests, and his tolerance of and kindly 

 sympathy for the opinions of others commanded 

 the respect and admiration of all with whom 

 he came in contact. 



His life was a benefaction, his presence a bless- 

 ing, his practical Christianity a continual source 

 of edification and his career one of great useful- 

 ness to man. 



We ask that this tribute to his memory be 

 spread upon the minutes of the society; that it be 

 printed in the proceedings and in Science, and 

 that a copy be forwarded to Mrs. Warder. 



On behalf of the society, 



Frank V. Cameron, 

 F. W. Clarke, 

 Wm. H. Seaman, 

 Frederic P. Dewet. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



The German emperor has conferred on 

 Professor Simon Neweomb the order ' pour 

 le merite ' in science and the arts. 



Professor Emil Pischer, of Berlin, has 

 been elected president of the German Chem- 

 ical Society. 



The Technical Institute at Munich has 

 conferred the honorary degree of doctor of 

 engineering on Dr. Pelix Klein, professor of 

 mathematics at Gottingen. 



The Geological Society of London has made 

 the following awards: The Wollaston medal 

 to Dr. Henry Woodward, formerly keeper of 

 the geological department of the British Mu- 



seum; the Murchison medal to Mr. C. T. 

 Glough, of the Geological Survey, known for 

 his excellent work in Scotland; the Lyell 

 medal to Professor P. D. Adams, the Canadian 

 geologist, whose petrographical work is well 

 known; the Prestwich medal to Mr. William 

 Whitaker, whose long labors on the Tertiary 

 deposits of England render him a most fitting 

 recipient. The funds are awarded as follows : 

 The Wollaston to Dr. P. L. Kitchin, who, not 

 long ago, was appointed paleontologist to the 

 Geological Survey of Great Britain ; , the 

 Murchison to Mr. Herbert Lapworth, who has 

 followed in his father's footsteps with excellent 

 work on the Welsh border ; the Lyell is divided 

 between Mr. W. G. Pearnsides and "Mr. E. H. 

 Solly; the Barlow- Jameson goes to Mr. H. C. 

 Beesley. 



Dr. a. B. Een'dle, who has been an assistant 

 in the botanical department of the British 

 Museum since 1888, has been appointed keeper 

 of that department in succession to Mr. George 

 Murray, recently retired. 



Professor T. J. J. See, IJ. S. Navy, has 

 recently been elected to membership in the 

 Societe frangaise de Physique, Societe as- 

 tronomique de France, Circolo Mathematico 

 di Palermo, and to life membership in the 

 Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 



Mr. G. W. Eolfe, instructor in sugar anal- 

 ysis in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, has been given leave of absence for 

 several months in order that he may go to 

 Porto Eico to take charge of a sugar planta- 

 tion on the Constancia estate. 



Professor Prancis E. Lloyd, of the depart- 

 ment of biology of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, has resigned to accept a position 

 in connection with the Desert Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution. 



In accordance with the terms of the fund 

 established anonymously, a. course of eight 

 lectures will be delivered by Harvard pro- 

 fessors at Yale, following the first lecture 

 under the fund delivered by President Eliot on 

 November 13, on the subject, ' Eesemblances 

 and Differences among the American Univer- 

 sities,' and printed in this journal. The re- 

 mainder of the series will be on philosophy. 



