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and walls of museums and schoolrooms 

 throughout the continent. 



He was one of the founders of the Geolog- 

 ical Society of America and was connected 

 with a number of other scientific associations, 

 national and local, but he rarely contributed 

 to their discussions. Besides the report on his 

 geologic field work, his contributions to scien- 

 tific literature included only brief descriptions 

 of meteorites. 



Personally Howell was quiet, unassuming 

 and sincere. His recognized integrity was an 

 important factor in his business success. If 

 he had enemies or detractors I have not met 

 them. His modeling was not distinguished by 

 its artistic quality, but was realistic whenever 

 the material from which he worked was full. 

 His clients found him ever clamorous for facts 

 and anxious to revise work at any stage if it 

 could thus be made more truthful, and his 

 clients, who were numerous among the inves- 

 tigators and teachers of geology and geog- 

 raphy, were also his friends. 



He was born March 12, 1845, in Genesee 

 County, N. T., and passed his boyhood on a 

 farm. In 1880 he married Annie H. Will- 

 iams, an artist. His wife died in 1893, but a 

 son and daughter survive him. 



G. K. Gilbert 



HEBMAN KNAFF 

 The scant space given in the press to the 

 death of Dr. Herman Knapp is but another 

 proof that we have not come to place that 

 value upon great scientists which is character- 

 istic of older countries. Had he lived in Ber- 

 lin or Paris the passing of Dr. Knapp would 

 have been one of the great topics of the day, 

 for his was a life of singular usefulness to the 

 community, as well as to the science of oph- 

 thalmology, and there were few American med- 

 ical men who rejoiced in wider renown on the 

 other side of the water than did he. He stud- 

 ied at no less than seven European universi- 

 ties. He established a dispensary and hos- 

 pital for eye diseases which is now a part of 

 the University of Heidelberg, at which he 

 taught for four years. Settling in this city 

 in 1868, he became at once the foremost practi- 



tioner in ophthalmic and aural diseases and 

 the founder of the Ophthalmic and Aural In- 

 stitute, besides being a professor in the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons. But this is 

 the briefest outline of an enormously busy and 

 useful life. Never was there a doctor in New 

 York who gave more generously of his serv- 

 ices to the poor and the needy; to them he 

 would go even late at night after an exhaust- 

 ing day's labor, if no other time was available. 

 More than that, the whole science of medicine 

 is in his debt for the Archives of Ophthalmol- 

 ogy and Otology which he founded, as well as 

 for numerous treatises and text-books of per- 

 manent value and for his lasting contributions 

 to the treatment of eye diseases. — N. Y. Even- 

 ing Post. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Prederic A. Lucas, curator in chief of 

 the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, and 

 formerly curator of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, has been elected director of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History. 



Dr. Lewis Boss, director of the Dudley Ob- 

 servatory, Albany, has been elected a corre- 

 sponding member of the St. Petersburg Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Professor Edward L. Mark, director of the 

 Harvard Zoological Laboratory, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Bohemian 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. E. B. Wilson has been designated Da 

 Costa professor of zoology in Columbia Uni- 

 versity, succeeding in this chair Professor 

 Henry F. Osborn, who becomes research pro- 

 fessor of zoology. 



The Edward Kempton Adams research fel- 

 lowship has been awarded by Columbia Uni- 

 versity to Dr. E. W. Wood, professor of ex- 

 perimental physics at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



A portrait of Professor John Cleland, who 

 from 1877 to 1909 occupied the chair of anat- 

 omy at Glasgow, was presented to the univer- 

 sity on April 26 and a copy to Mrs. Cleland. 

 Before the presentations the senate met and 

 conferred on Professor Cleland the honorary 

 degree of LL.D. 



