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pnrtiiients and tlic rcmarkabli' frrowth of 

 Sibley ColU'gre. His own contribution to this 

 splendid result oan hardly be over-estimated. 

 To his wise and farsighted policy and his tact- 

 ful and efficient administration is due in 

 greatest measure the development of Sibley 

 Oollefre, whicii now constitutes the largest unit 

 in our university organization and holds an 

 assured place among the foremost technical 

 schools of the world. 



In all his relations to general university 

 problems he exhibited the spirit of the scholar 

 and the wisdom of the man of affairs. Serene 

 in temper, sound in judgment, swift and cer- 

 tain in action, he justly exercised a weighty 

 influence in all our counsels. 



As a colleague he exhibited an interest in all 

 good learning that bespoke the true scholar 

 and tlie generous fellow- worker. 



As a friend and I'ompanion he manifested a 

 cordial sympathy that attracted all who knew 

 him and held them in the bonds of an increas- 

 ing affection. 



In all the relations of life he moved upon 

 the higher levels and showed forth the better 

 qualities of our nature. 



His loss falls heavily upon us, his colleagues 

 and friends ; upon the college whose head he 

 was ; and upon the university in whose history 

 he has borne a distinguished part. It falls 

 most heavily upon his family, whose grief we 

 share, and to whom we desire to express our 

 profound and sincere sympathy. 



T. F. Cr.\ne. 



E. W. HUFFCLT, 

 W. F. DURAND, 



Committee. 

 IriiACA, N. \.. 



SCIENTII'IC SOTES AND NEWS. 

 A COMMEMORATIVE number of The American 

 Journal of Psychology/ has been issued, in 

 honor of President G. Stanley Hall on the 

 occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of 

 his attainment of the doctorate of philosophy. 

 The volume r-ontains twenty-six papers by 

 colleagues and former students and extends 

 to 434 pages. ,\ portrait of President Hall 

 is given as a frontispiece. The dedication 

 reails " To Granville Stanley Hall, founder 



of the first American laboratory for experi- 

 mental psychology and of the first American 

 journal for the publication of the results of 

 l)sychological investigation ; pioneer in the 

 systematic study of the mental development 

 of children and the application of its results 

 to educational practice; ardent inspirer of 

 others in the zeal for new knowledge— in com- 

 memoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary 

 of his attainment of the doctorate in philos- 

 ophy, this collection of papers is dedicated 

 conjointly by colleagues and former pupils." 

 Dr. Hans Gadow, Strickland curator of 

 the University Museum and lecturer on ad- 

 vanced morphology and vertebrata at Cam- 

 bridge University, England, has accepted an 

 invitation of the Lowell Institute, Boston, 

 to give a course of six lectures beginning 

 March 29, 1904, on ' Coloration of Amphibians 

 and Eeptiles.' Dr. Gadow will probably give 

 other popular lectures on zoological subjects 

 while he is in this country. 



Dr. M. E. Jaffa, of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, was elected president of the Associa- 

 tion of Official Agricultural Chemists at their 

 recent meeting in Washington. 



Dr. E. H. Ruedigkr, of the Memorial In- 

 stitute for Infectious Diseases, Chicago, has 

 beeu appointed assistant in the Serum Insti- 

 tute, Manila, P. I. 



Osmond E. Leroy, of the Geological Survey 

 of Canada, has been appointed geologist to the 

 Chinese Department of Mines, and leaves for 

 Shanghai this month. Mr. Leroy is a grad- 

 uate of McGill University and was assistant 

 in geologj' in that institution for several years. 

 During the past two seasons he has been en- 

 gaged with Dr. Barlow in a detailed geological 

 study of the nickel areas in the district about 

 Sudbury. 



Mr. W. M. MacMii.lan, of St. Louis, will 

 start this week for Egypt in order to ex^ilore 

 the course of the Blue Nile. The party will 

 embark in launches at Khartum and proceed 

 to the furthest navigable point, where it will 

 land and continue the e.xijlorations in the 

 direction of Lake Rudolf. 



Professor W. J. Hussey, of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, has for some time been engaged in 



