his memory cherished long after those who sat at his feet and listened to his voice shall have passed away. His words, his thoughts remain. And not his thoughts only; for though he was essentially a man of thought, he was also a man of effort to whom came the high privilege of achievement. That laborious humility for which he was conspicuous, that unceasing activity which drove him, as by an internal fire, from success to success, mark him as a man of purpose. In an age that threatens, now to fester into luxury, now to swell into the degenerate lust of bigness, now to drivel into sport, such a strenuous career as his, and such high ideals of intellectual endeavor as illuminated his whole life, are possessions not lightly to be lost."
SCIENTIFIC ITEMS
We record with regret the deaths of Dr. H. T. Ricketts, of the University of Chicago, who had been in Mexico conducting research on typhus fever and died from that disease; of Dr. Eugene Hodenpyl. the pathologist, of New York City; of Professor William Graham Sumner, of Yale University, eminent for his contributions to sociology and economics, and of Sir Robert Giffen, the British statistician.
Members of the National Academy of Sciences have been elected as follows: Forest Ray Moulton. assistant
