The St. Louis Republic., 1903-12-30
NOTABLE SCIENTISTS
WHO ATTRACT ATTENTION.

Professor Doctor E. L. Mark was the
guest OF honor at diner given By his
former pupils at the Southern Hotel at
$40 p m. yesterday. The occasion Of
the dinner was the presentation OF me-
mortal lria volume containing the work Of
his students during the past twenty five
years that have elapsed since he was
made a Doctor of Philosophy.
Professor Mark is one Of the Oldest
ZoologlSts in the country and his efforts
have led to great advances In that science.
Besides being a teacher OF note, he has
published many contributions to Embry-
oiogy in which he is especially Interested
ana and Is one one of its grestest living author
sity Of Iowa is famous for his Studies
OF the jelly fish and sea anernone. He
Is regarded as an especially able collector
and has taken part in rnany Goyernfnsnt
gazing the forms Of life he has made his
specially. We're Invaluable. 'es 'H"ee H's
Those who remember the ''chinch bug
fear that possessed the agriculturists some
Professor F. II. Snow. who discovered the
insecF plague. He Is head Of the dspaaFe
Of Kansas, and IS one of the best known
OF American 'entymolosists. There fs
named in his honor one OF the buildings
Ct the university. which is known as shSww
One of the local members of the Astron-
onnical and Astrophysical Society who is
to deliver an address IS the Reverend Mar
| among the members of the society for his
accurate and painstaking fnvesti tons.
He win sketch the progress OF ASTRONOMY
in the United states at this Fnlso'rfiiinrss mo-
Professor James 'McKeen Cattell Of Col
| umbia University is one of the foremost
Aerican psychoiogists and he is noted
artainmentss He is the editor of Science
| and of the Popular Science Monthly. He
IS an authority. OF mental measurement
TO classify scientists. He has written to
2,4og of the foremost in the world asking
that they list ten most eminent men in
their their line Of work Twelve sciences are
John Al. Coulter, professor of botany in
the University of Chicago, is one of the
most prominent in his line of scientific in
vestigation, His early work as a sys-
tematic botanist was remarkable, but
his later investigations into the structure
| of towering plants are said to be models
OF mastery and painstaking work.
One of the best known among the Cow
ernment entomoiogists Is Doctor L. o.
Howard, whose monumental research
| into the mosquito as a carrier of disease
has caused more comment than almost
| any other scientific investigation Of re
cent years. - e
Through the efforts OF Doctor Howard
| the eradication of yellow fever and ma
laria are believed to be possible, as his
| experiments have proven that the cessa-
| ton of these diseases can be brought
about through the utter determination Of
| the mosquito. Draining the swamps in
which the insects breed is the fundamen-
| tai method proposed by Professor How
| ard.
Professor Hugo Muensterberg of Har-
| ward has earned a vote of thanks from
| the officials of the Worlds Fair for his
| arrangement and classification Of the SCI
| ences for the proper placing of exhibits
| This was the first attempt to classify
| science as a whole and Professor Muen-
sterberg finished with i60 subdivisions.
His starting point was knowledge. which
| he split into seven SubheadS, and these
| We're divided Tito seyenty-three sections.
| This correlation of science on the large
| scale has, already greatly benefited the
Professor John Dewey of Chicago is one
| of the laborers in the Psychological Sec
ton. whose name stands out among edu-
Gators as the founder of theories Of edu-
cation on the basis of psychological te-
| nets. His application of the functional
| theory TO the Interpretation of judgment
Is marked for deep thought and thorough
| treatment. 70 % q. 80 -.
| Professor Fred W. McNair, president Of
| the Michigan College of Mines of Housh.
ton, Mich, is considered to be one of the
best educators in the United States. AL
though the Michigan College of Mines is
| a State institution, founded by the State
| through the efforts Of the late Judge Jay
| A. Hubbell of Houghton. and supported by
| State appropriation, it has enrolled as stu
| dents men from every State In the Union
| and large number from foreign countries.
| Under President McNair's guidance the
| college has attained rank as one of the
| best mining and mechanical engineering
| institutions in the United States, and its
| graduates are employed by large mining
| corporations in every part of the United
| States. and, in fact, in every part of the
| globe. n -. :. -
| The college is situated in Houghton. the
| distributing center in the Lake Superior
| copper country, and therefore offers to its
| students excellent facilities for studying
| mining engineering at first hand. as some
1 OF the largest and most productive copper
mines in the country are located within a
radius of twenty miles of the college
| John Franklin Crowell, the Internal
| Commerce Expert of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, is the secretary OF
the Social and Economic Science Section
Of the American Academy for the Ad-
| vancement of Science. -.
| Doctor Crowell came to ST. Louis a
| month ago and made a report upon the
| commercial advantages of deepening the
| Mississippi River from ST. Louis to Cairo.
| which resulted in the Board of Engineers.
for whom he was preparing this report,
Immediately recommending a 10000, 900 ap-
preparation to Congress for this purpose
LATE ARRIVALS.
Those that arrived yesterday to attend
the sessions of the Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science were: "a -
E. Porter Felt, Albany, N Y
Doctor David Starr Jordan polo Alto re-,