CASH ACCOUNT. MARCH. 



Date I IJ Received. II Paid. 



THO'WBIUBOEi — At C»inbrlclc«. at fala bome, BS 

 lilniUMaci street. Feb. 18, John Trowbrldio, 

 lata Buraford Professor Emeritus, Harvard 

 University, In the 80th year ot his a«e. 

 Funeral at Christ Church. CambrldKc. Wsdncs^ 

 da y. Feb. 21, at 3 o'clock. 



DEATH OF PROPr TROWBRIDGE 



He Was Prominent in Physics Depart- 

 I meat at Harvard Until Retirement in 

 1910, and Was Foremost in Building 

 JeSerson Physical Laboratory for Which 

 He Raised the Money 



John Trowhrldgp, late RUmfortI protessou 



emerit.ii.<i at Harvard, and ono oE tho best- 

 Itnov.-n pIijsliM.st.') ot his time, illed yesterday 

 at hia home. t'H Linna-an street, Cambridge, 

 where had reaidiMl ever since Ills mar- 

 riage forty-five years ago. Ho Iiad been ill 

 only two days and last Tuesday had bIiov- 

 ellod snow around his estate. Althougli In 

 hl.s eiEhtleth year ho had enjoyed unusu- 

 ally good healUi until taken Hi last Friday. 



Professor Trowbridsre was born in Bos- 

 ton in IS-in, and was the son ot John Howo 

 and Adeline Trowbridge. Ho reeeivod his 

 degree of i^. B. from tho Tjawrenre Scientific 

 School in ISO.", and Iiis S. T>. In 1873. WbJle 

 yet ft yound man Tresident Kliot called 

 Profe.csor Tro-\ybrldgo to the phy.sical dc- 

 rartmoiit nt Harvard which than consisted 

 ot iwo small lecture rooms. Professor 

 Trowbridge, realizins the need of larger 

 quarters began to interest his friends In 

 his project, and almost alone ho was able 

 to raise the money to huild tho Jefferson 

 Physical Laboratory at Harvard, which to- 

 day .stand,^ as a monument to his enterprise 

 and activity. He even made the designs 

 for the building in conjunction with an 

 architect, and gave all the worlc his most 

 careful attention until-'the building was 

 completed, Ot this Jefferson Physical Lafb- 



