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publishing frequently, altho their time must be very much occupied with the 
preparation for entering into their enlarged work in their new laboratory. 
Among those who, during the quarter century, have been, for a time, of our 
number, and who haye contributed to our progress, mention should be made of 
Professor A. A. Veblen (now retired) who was Head of Department at the 
University from the establishment of the Department of Physics until his retirer 
ment in 1905, and President of the Academy in 1901; Professor W. S. Franklin, 
of Lehigh University, who was Head of Department at Iowa State College, 1891 
to 1897, and President of the Academy in 1897; Professor Karl E. Guthe, of the 
University of Michigan, who was Head of Department at the State University 
of Iowa, 1905 to 1909, and a stimulus to all who were privileged to associate 
with him in the work in Physics in the State; Professor Edwin Morrison, of 
Earlham College, Professor at Penn College, 1901 to 1906. 
Probably not less than thirty graduates of Iowa colleges within this period 
have continued their work In Physics, have contributed to the literature of the 
subject, and are now college or university teachers. Professor L. B. Spinney 
succeeded his teacher. Professor Franklin, at the State College; Professor A. G. 
Smith came into the department with his teacher. Professor Veblen, at the 
University; Professor D. W. Morehouse came into the Physics end of the “settee” 
occupied by his teacher. Professor C. N. Kinney, at Drake University. Profes- 
sors L. A. Parsons, of Pennsylvania State College, L. P. Sieg, of the State Uni- 
versity of Iowa, L. D. Weld, of Coe College, A. H. Hoffman, of low, a State Col- 
lege, Oscar Veblen, of Princeton^ C. H. Bowman, of Montana School of Mines, 
S. R. Williams, of Oberlin, F. C. Stanley, of Penn College, C. V. Kent, of Carle- 
ton College; Doctors L. B. Morse, of Columbia, W. M. Boehm, of the University 
of Pennsylvania, Frederic A. Harvey, of Syracuse University, H. H. Marvin, of 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are some of the graduates of Iowa 
colleges who as undergraduates pursued advanced courses in Physics in Iowa 
within the quarter century. . 
At the present time the departments of Physics in eight Iowa colleges are in 
charge of men with recent graduate training and whose chief interest is in the 
subject of Physics. In several others the work is in charge of men with recent 
graduate training in Physics, but whose chief interest is in another subject. 
There are about twenty teachers of Physics in the colleges of the State with 
graduate training who should be associated for their mutual benefit and 
for the good of the work in the State, in the Academy of Sciences. 
