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...Blackwell, Fellow for Research in Physics for one year from September...
...Jenks has made a specialty of Philippine ethnology. After taking his degree of B.S. from Kalamazoo College and from the University of Chicago he became an honorary fellow at Wisconsin University, where he received in 1899 the degree of Ph.D. For some years past he has been engaged in government research in the Philippine Islands, and since 1903 has been chief of the Ethnological Survey there. He has studied the economic life of the Negritos, the primitive race in the Islands, and of the peoples engrafted upon them, and it is of the various features of the present mixed population...
Professor Richards has revised the atomic weights of a dozen of the elements, and is one of the leading authorities on the subject. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and several other scientific societies. He is also a member of the International Committee on Weights, and is an adviser to the Carnegie Institution...
...habit of blunt, direct speech was really the expression of a simple, earnest, democratic nature, scorning all pretense of super-refinement and anxious to meet all upon the terms of absolute equality. He combined the instinct of the true scholar with a wonderful breadth of sympathies and a fellow feeling...
Professor Shaler was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of other scientific societies. He was a most versatile writer, having published, besides a large number of scientific reports, some poetry and dramatic works, and many popular articles in the "Scientific American," "Scribner's Magazine," and similar periodicals. His most widely known works are: "The Story of our Continent": "The Interpretation of Nature"; "The Individual: Study of Life and Death"; "The Citizen: the Study of the Individual and the Government"; "The United States of America: a Study of the American Commonwealth"; "Man and the Earth"; "Elizabeth...