thousands of unfortunate persons who possessed defects of character which drove them whenever free to a life of crime and made them an intolerable nuisance to society—defects which would inevitably reappear to some extent in their descendants if they had any. If they could get the paramount racial duty which they owed to posterity incorporated as an essential part of the moral code of the nation, then they would be on the high road to success.
SCIENTIFIC ITEMS
We record with regret the death of Dr. Frederick W. True, assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution, known for his contributions to zoology, especially of the Cetacea; of Professor Seth Eugene Meek, assistant curator of zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, who was an authority on fishes and reptiles; of Dr. Rupert Norton, assistant superintendent of the Johns Hopkins Hospital; of Dr. Joseph Reynolds Green, F.R.S., known for his researches in plant physiology, and of Professor Hugo Kronecker, of Berlin, distinguished for his contributions to physiology.
At the recent meeting of the American Medical Association, its gold medal was conferred on Surgeon General William Crawford Gorgas, who has also received honorary doctorates of laws from Princeton and Yale Universities.—The degree of LL.D. was bestowed by the University of California on commencement day on Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, from 1874 to 1906 professor of agriculture and dean of the College of Agriculture; on George Holmes Howison, Mills professor of intellectual and moral polity from 1884 to 1909.
Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, who died on June 17, bequeathed $5,000,000 to the American Museum of Natural History and made other bequests to public institutions amounting to $3,450,000.
