THE PROGRES 
standing among each ten instructors. 
The five institutions that have the best | 
record are of comparatively recent es- 
tablishment; they have given a rela- | 
tively more prominent position to sci- 
the 
have selected better men. 
ence than older institutions and 
10.6; Michigan, 12.3; Wisconsin, 13.2; 
13.3; Cornell, 16.5; Cali- 
fornia, 21.3; Pennsylvania, 25.2 
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car 
Columbia, 
THE DEATH OF PROFESSOR 
BREWER 
Untit the establishment of the 
Hopkins ia L876, 
Harvard and Yale were our chief cen- 
ters of scientific research and_ pro- 
ductive scholarship. We are 
one after the other the men who gaye 
distinction to these universities. Yale 
Johns University 
losing 
has mourned the death of Dana, | 
Loomis, Newton, Gibbs, Marsh and 
Johnson, and*now in the death of 
William Henry Brewer, one of the few 
remaining links with the past is sev- 
ered. He belonged to a generation and 
_to a type of university professor which 
survive. The 
scarcely man 
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At certain | 
other institutions the ratios are: Yale, | 
of the) 
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PROFESSOR BREWER IN 1910. 
world is now likely to be found in the 
university chair as elsewhere, leaving 
small space for the naive and the un- 
conventional, 
Brewer was born on a farm eighty- 
two years ago; he graduated with the 
first class of the Yale scientific school; 
he studied with Liebig before studying 
abroad had become usual; in 1858 he 
became professor of chemistry and 
geology at Washington College. From 
1860 to 1864 Brewer served on the 
California State Survey and was dur- 
ing the latter part of this period pro- 
fessor of natural science in the Uni- 
versity of California. He always 
looked back with special interest to 
these years. 
He was associated with 
King, Whitney and others in exploring 
the Sierras, one of whose peaks is 
named in his honor. At this time the 
|“ Botany of California ” was prepared. 



PROFESSOR BREWER IN HIS LIBRARY. 
In 1864 Brewer began his long serv- 
ice as professor of agriculture in the 
Sheffield Scientifie School of Yale Uni- 
versity. to the work of 
his chair, he was indefatigable in in- 
In addition 
vestigation and exploration, in lectur- 
ing and in at scientific 
gatherings, being rarely absent even to 
attendance 
