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bryology as in cytology, and will constitute an enduring landmark of 

 progress on the history of investigations upon the organization of the 

 egg, the role of protoplasm and nucleus, and in the modern controversies 

 relating to vitalistie and mechanistic conception of development. 



Boveri's name will stand with those of Schwann, Kolliker, Eemak, 

 Yan Beneden, Plemming and the few other great leaders of microscopical 

 research; and it may be doubted whether he has had an equal in respect 

 to' the keenness of his scientific insight or the fruitfulness of his labors 

 in the difficult and fundamental field of inquiry. The more carefully 

 we study his works the more is our admiration stirred by his qualities 

 as an . investigator. He was endowed with a mind fertile in ideas, of 

 great logical acuteness, of perfect clarity; he was an observer of unsur- 

 passed accuracy and resourcefulness; and beyond all this his work is 

 everywhere permeated by that indefinable artistic quality which often 

 characterizes scientific research of the highest type. With this rare com- 

 bination of qualities he naturally and inevitably took his place among 

 the foremost investigators of our time, and his work will endure as a 

 classical model of creative insight, of fruitful scientific method and of 

 lucid presentation. 



With a deep sense of the loss that science has sustained through 

 Boveri's untimely death the Kew York Academy of Sciences renders its 

 tribute to his rare and lofty qualities as a man and records its apprecia- 

 tion of his brilliant original contributions to knowledge. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Henry E. Crampton, 

 Acting Recording Secretary. 



SECTION OP ASTEONOMY, PHYSICS AND CHEMISTEY 



1 May, 1916 



Section met at 8 :30 p. m., Vice-President Ernest E. Smith presiding. 

 The following program was presented : 



J. H. Morecroft, The Electron" Steam Amplifier — An Electrical 

 Ultramicroscope. 



The Section then adjourned. 



V. E. Levine, 



Secretary. 



