The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-16
WILL Be NOTABLE EVENT
Scholarly Men to Speak at
Clark University's
Anniversary.

way BETTING the character of its
work, as follows:
First, by brief courses of lectures,
July SIS both inclusive, by four or five
of the most eminent and distinguished
scientific men of Europe. Final arrange
ments have already been mace with
three of these men, brief notices Of
whose work are printed below. To tHese
| lectures invitations are to be issued TO
a few hundreA of the most eminent
men of science, particularly professor
/ in universities, in this country. Some
of the lecturers will speak in French
or German and the lectures will be spe-
cial and addressed chiefly to experts
! Second, there will be one or more
public meetings, at which eminent coli
lege presidents and others will speak
briefly congratulating the university,
and at which each Of the heads of the
departments will give a brief history
of the work of his department and Will
describe the development 1t most urS-
emily needs, and speak briefly Of his
own ideals and those of the leading men
| in the department.
! Third One large and general recep-
ton in the university building, with
decorations, music and refreshments,
and faculty. This will take place prob
ably Monday evening, July 10th.
/ Fourth. A volume of considerable
size will be published. containing the
history of each department during the
| ten years, the lectures and exercises OF
the decennial, and the names of every
member of the university, with COM
plete titles of all their published works.
| The following accounts of the three
speakers already announced are APP
pended; Picard by Professor Story,
Mosso by Professor Burnham, and Ca
| jail by Professor Hodge.
Born at Paris, July oath, 1856, and
following his natural bent toward
mathematics, M. Emile Picard became
brilliant pupil of the Ecole Normale
in Paris, which, with the Ecole Poly
technique has been the nursery of the
greatest mathematician of France
His first work was his thesis on Lii
near complexes," which he wrote in
1877, while yet in the normal school.
That same year he graduated and was
appointed repetiteur at the Sorbonne
where he had to train the students in
solving problems in analytical mechan-
les in connection with lectures on the
same subject by NJ. DarbouX.
He then applied himself to translat-
| ing Weierstrass' classic paper on pri-
mary factors, which revealed to him
| his own genius, and he soon came for
ward with an original paper on the i'm
possibility of an integer function ever
\ having two values, which was publish
| ed in the Compile Rendu of the French
| Academy of Sciences of May 10, 1879.
A friend Of M. Picard who was staying
| in Berlin at the time, heard the vet
eran German mathematician above
named express himself in the highest
terms with regard to the rising French
mathematician.
| Appointed professor of mathematics,
| first at Toulouse and then at Paris, he
| became in 1889 member of the insti-
tute, thus receiving the highest honor
that France confers on her eminent
men.
Professor Angelo Mosso of the Uni
versity of Turin is one of the most dis
tinguished and versatile of European
men of science. Born in Turin about 20
years ago, he studied first in his native
city, early making a speciality of physi-
ology, and later with such noted mas
tiers as Schiff and Ludwig. In 1876 he
became professor of materia medica in
| his alma mater, and four years after
ward succeeded Moleschott as profess
sor of physiology, which position he
still holds.
His most brilliant contributions have
had to do with the difficult problems Of
the circulation of the blood in the
brain and of the effect of sleep and va
rious forms of mental activity upon cir
culation in that organ. By means Of in
genious instruments invented or much
| improved by him, he has been able to
show in sound and healthy men a
marked relation between cerebral ac-
tivity and the blood supply of the hrail
and has been able to confirm his OBJ
servations yet more brilliantly upon
hospital patients whose skulls had bsrn
opened as result of accident or dis
ease.
His latest work. suggested doGbtle-s
by his own energetic mountain climb
| ing in the Alps. has been a study of
the physiological effect of high alti-
tudes. Much of his work has been pub
lished originally in French or German,
or has been speedily translated into
those languages, and he is editor Of the
| Archives Italiennes de Biologie, a Jour
nal in French devoted to the publica-
ton of Italian work in physiology and
related lines. Two Of his more impor-
tant works have recently appeared in
FngHsh-those on Fear" and on the
Life of man on the high Alps"
Prof Santiago Ramon Caial was
born at Pitillas, a village in Navarro
in 1852 His medical course was ia
| ken at SaragoSsa, with great distinc-
ton, and after serving as demonstration
of anatomy for several years, he entered
the medical department of the Spanish
army. During service in Cuba he con-
tracted malaria and was invaded out
of the service.
Returning to Spain, he continued his
scientific studies as is shown by the
fact that in 1873 he won by competitive
examination the office of director Of
the anatomical museum at Saragossa.
He held this position for five years, de-
voting himself largely to microscopfcal
work. In 1882 he again won distinc-
ton and the chair of anatomy in the
University of Valencia. His great sci
entific activity has been largely in
spired by patriotism. and in his formal
installation at Valencia, he said that
Nsthin 10 years, if life was spared him.
his name would be quoted as a histolo-
gist by foreigners; since it is dis
grace that among so many thousands
of discoveries in anatomy. there is not
one to which the name of a Spaniard
is attached"
About 10 years after, this young an
atomist was called to succeed Rudolph
Nirchow as Croonian lecturer to the
Royal Society. In 1888 he went to the
chair Of histology at Barcelona, and
in 1892 won again, by competitive ex-
animation, the professorship, which he
now holds. Of histology and PATHOLOGY
cal anatomy in the College Of San Car
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