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books and apparatus and afford advanced instruc- 

 tion to qualified students. 



" Tlie following officers of the Board of Trustees 

 were elected : 



Chairman — John S. Billings, New York; Viee- 

 Chairman — Elihu Root, secretary of war; Secre- 

 tary — Charles D. Walcott, director of the geolog- 

 ical survey. 



Vacancies on the board were filled by the 

 election of John Cadwalader of New York to 

 succeed Abram S. Hewitt, deceased; Cleveland E. 

 Dodge, New York, to succeed William E. Dodge, 

 deceased, and Judge William Wirt Howe, New 

 Orleans, to succeed Justice Edward D. White, re- 



Secretary of State John Hay was chosen as a 

 member of the e.xecutive committee in the class 

 of 1905 to siioceed Mr. Hewitt and Dr. S. Weir 

 Mitchell and Carroll D. Wright were reelected 

 for three years as members of the executive com- 

 mittee. 



" President D. C. Gilman will resign his office 

 one year hence. For some time rumors have been 

 current that Dr. Gilman would retire during the 

 present meeting, and when it was known that he 

 and Mr. Carnegie had had a long private confer- 

 ence it was assumed that the matter was settled. 

 A letter from Dr. Gilman to the trustees, however, 

 showed that he did not intend to make any sudden 

 move. His letter reminded his colleagues that 

 the fixed term of the presidency of the institution 

 was five years, of which he had now served two; 

 that his increasing age made the labors of an 

 executive at the head of so great an establish- 

 ment very onerous, and that he did not feel that 

 he could continue to bear the burdens beyond the 

 next year, when he should expect the acceptance 

 of his resignation." 



BEjSIRY CARBINGTON BOLTON. 

 At a meeting called by the Washington 

 Chemical Society, held in Columbian Uni- 

 versity, on Monday evening, November 25, in 

 honor of the memory of the late Henry Car- 

 rington Bolton, addresses were made by the 

 president of the society. Dr. F. K. Cameron, 

 Dr. Ghas. E. Munroe, Dr. H. W. Wiley, Dr. 

 F. W. Clarke, Dr. Marcus Benjamin and Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Warder. A committee consisting 

 of Drs. Munroe, Clarke and Wiley vcas ap- 

 pointed with power to formally express the 

 sorrow of the members of the society for the 

 bereavement which they had suffered. Fol- 



lowing is the memorial prepared by the com- 

 mittee : 



" Death has suddenly removed from earth 

 our friend and coworker. Dr. Henry Carring- 

 ton Bolton. In his death chemistry has lost 

 a disciple, who gave to her service the en- 

 thusiasm of his youth, the strength of his 

 manhood and the wise council of his riper 

 years. 



" Our section has lost a member who 

 through his experimental researches and es- 

 pecially by his notable additions to bibliog- 

 raphy has contributed much to the advance- 

 ment of the science which it is the purpose 

 of this society to promote. These distin- 

 guished services to science have placed all who 

 are interested in chemistry under lasting 

 obligations. 



" The student of chemistry has lost a friend 

 who was always ready to extend the right hand 

 of fellowship and to contribute freely from 

 his rare store of knowledge and extended ex- 

 perience. 



" The community has lost a man who by 

 his genial qualities, his high ideals, his faith- 

 fulness to the duties he undertook, his cath- 

 olicity of views and of interests and his toler- 

 ance of the opinions of others endeared him to 

 all who knew him. 



" His life was a benefaction, his presence 

 always a blessing and his career one of use- 

 fulness 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 an engrossed copy be presented to 

 Mrs. Bolton. 



"On behalf of the society, 



" Ohas. E. Munroe, 

 "F. W. Clarke, 

 " H. W. Wiley." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The Eoyal Society held its anniversary 

 meeting on November 30, when the officers 

 were elected whose names have already been 

 printed in this journal. A contest took place 

 for the post of general secretary, vacant by 

 the resignation of Sir Michael Foster, for 

 which Sir Archibald Geikie was nominated by 



