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SCIENCE 



[N. S, Vol. XLII. No. 1089 



It is very fitting at this meeting, the first of the 

 Eesearch Club since the death of one of its spe- 

 cially honored members, Karl Eugen Guthe, that 

 some words of appreciation should be spoken and 

 I know well that in what I shall say now I shall 

 have the hearty consent and sympathy of the whole 

 club. 



Sixteen years— 1893 to 1903i and 1909 to 191.5 

 — a teacher in the university, nine years an active 

 member of this club, and three years the dean of 

 the graduate school, Dr. Guthe won for himself 

 an unusually general and unusually cordial respect. 

 His fine character, his high ideals, his constant 

 loyalty to careful scholarship and scientific re- 

 search made him a man whom it has been a bene- 

 fit to us all to have known and to whom the uni- 

 versity in its work as an educational institution 

 and in its larger life, where the man as well as 

 the teacher and officer makes himself felt, is in- 

 debted greatly. 



It is pleasant to remember Dr. Guthe 's last 

 paper before the Eesearch Club, read at the Eoger 

 Bacon memorial meeting in April, 1914; a paper 

 on Bacon as a scientist that was a model of con- 

 scientious study and critical statement. 



It is pleasant, too, to remember how seriously 

 and faithfully he applied himself to the newly 

 organized graduate school, seeking to put it and 

 all its opportunities to the real service of produc- 

 tive study. What he accomplished, moreover, has 

 given the school a most valuable foundation. 



And, again, it is pleasant to remember in these 

 days of national and racial differences, when so 

 many are carried away by their partisan feeling, 

 that although often at variance with the opinions 

 and sympathies of many of his friends he neither 

 gave offense to any nor took offense; and this, 

 quite without sacrifice of his independence. He 

 did indeed show, as too few have shown, how sci- 

 ence and its methods, its ideals and its purposes, 

 may give men integrity and poise; whining for 

 himself and his views the respect that with his 

 sense of fairness he was so ready to accord to 

 others and to their views. 



A true scholar, a faithful and efficient officer, 

 and a most genial friend, Dr. Guthe was one whom 

 we are glad to have had among us and whose mem- 

 ory we may well cherish. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 A CABLEGRAM from Copenhagen to the daily 

 papers, the correctness of whicli is open to 



1 1903-1905 Dean Guthe was in the Bureau of 

 Standards, Washington, D. C, and 1905-1909 he 

 was professor of physics in the University of Iowa. 



question, states that the Swedish government 

 will award the l^obel prize in physics to 

 Thomas A. Edison and Nikola Tesla; and in 

 chemistry to Professor Theodor Svedberg. 



Professor Adolf von Baeyer celebrated hi» 

 eightieth birthday on October 31. With the 

 beginning of the present semester he retired 

 from the chair of chemistry at Munich in 

 which he succeeded von Liebig in 1875. 



Professor Eduard Bruckner has been 

 elected president and Professor Eugen Ober- 

 hummer vice-president of the Vienna Geo- 

 graphical Society. 



Dr. David W. Cheever, of Boston ; Dr. Wil- 

 fred T. Grenfell, of Labrador; Dr. Stephen 

 Smith, of New York; and Dr. Lewis McL. 

 Tiffany, of Baltimore, were elected honorary 

 fellows of the American College of Surgeons 

 at its recent Boston meeting. 



On the occasion of the dedication of the 

 Elizabeth Steel Magee Hospital the University 

 of Pittsburgh conferred its doctorate of laws 

 on Dr. John W. Williams, dean of the Johns 

 Hopkins Medical School; Dr. Barton Cooke 

 Hirst, professor of obstetrics, University of 

 Pennsylvania; and on Dr. Walter William 

 Chipman, professor of obstetrics and gynecol- 

 ogy, McGill University. 



Professor Henry S. Jacoby, of the college 

 of civil engineering, Cornell University, has 

 been elected president of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education for the 

 year 1915-16. 



Professor A. H. White has considered it 

 necessary, owing to reasons of health, to resign 

 the chair of pathology in the school of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland, which 

 he has held for the last seventeen years. 



Dr. John Casper Branner, whose resigna- 

 tion of the presidency of Stanford University 

 has been accepted to take effect December 31, 

 will retire on a Carnegie pension and will con- 

 tinue to live on the Stanford campus. He 

 will maintain an office in the university, in 

 accordance with the trustees' invitation, and 

 immediately after his retirement will be oc- 

 cupied for some time in a revision of two of 

 his books, each of which is about to be pub- 

 lished in a third edition — his Portuguese 



