appointed to draft resolutions expressing their gratitude and respect. These resolutions were duly entered upon the minutes of the Board and communicated to the family of Senator Morrill. The University has not been unmindful of its debt to Senator Morrill and has perpetuated his name in the first building it erected and placed his portrait in the Library among those of its other benefactors. Owing to the absence of the President of the University, Senator Morrill's birthday, the 14th of April, was not formally celebrated at Cornell University as it was at other institutions which had benefited by the act of Congress of which Senator Morrill was the author. The Acting President, however, in the college press, called the attention of the students to the day, and impressed upon them the claim of Senator Morrill to their grateful memory.

TRUSTEES

The sudden death of ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower on the 12th of May, 1899, has again, within a brief space of time, left the Board of Trustees without a Chairman. Mr. Flower was elected to that important position in succession to Mr. Henry W. Sage, on October 30th, 1897, in recognition of the interest he had displayed in the University in both his public and private capacity. As soon as the news of his death reached Ithaca the Executive Committee met and appointed a committee to draft resolutions and also provided for the representation of the University and Board of Trustees at the funeral at Watertown, New York. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees the resolutions of the above committee were presented, adopted, and ordered spread upon the minutes and a copy thereof forwarded to the family of ex-Governor Flower. The resolutions were as follows:

"The Trustees of Cornell University have shared the universal feeling of consternation and grief at the sudden death of their Chairman, exGovernor Roswell P. Flower.

The early life of ex-Governor Flower was one which predisposed him to foster the education of the youth of the State, and to sympathize with the efforts of Cornell University to improve the condition of the agricultural classes. Amid the engrossing cares of a great financial career his heart ever fondly turned to the soil on which he was born,

and in all his varied stations in life, as man of business, statesman, and financier, he never forgot the wants of the rural communities, but promoted by every means in his power their social and professional improvement.

In his first message to the Legislature, on the 3rd of January, 1893, Governor Flower called attention to the advantages offered by the State Land Grant College, Cornell University, for carrying on the scientific work of agricultural promotion, and urged the concentration at Cornell University of the various agencies for promoting scientific agriculture. The Legislature concurred in the recommendation of the Governor, and appropriated a liberal sum for the erection and equipment of a building for Cornell University, to be used for instruction and investigation in dairy husbandry and other agricultural pursuits.

In the same message the Governor called attention to the vast importance of veterinary science, 'not merely as affecting the value of our live stock, but because of its intimate relation to the question of public health.' The result of this recommendation was the establishment in 1894, by the Legislature, of a State Veterinary College at Cornell University. Thus some of the greatest economic interests of the State owe their promotion to the intelligent and far-reaching statesmanship of Governor Flower, who fortunately lived to see the beneficent results of the legislation of which he was the author,

In 1897 he visited the beautiful and well-equipped Veterinary College, and with his usual kindly and beneficent spirit presented to the University for the College a liberal sum of money, for the purchase of a special library of works relating to veterinary science.

The Board of Trustees desire to express their appreciation of ex-Governor Flower in all the other relations which they bore to him. His boundless generosity and genial disposition endeared him to the people of the State which he loved so deeply and served so tirelessly. His early struggles for an education, his remarkable success in business, and his unselfish use of his wealth for the benefit of humanity, make him a worthy member of the family of Cornell's benefactors."

At the same meeting of the Board of Trustees it was resolved that as a special mark of respect to the memory of Mr. Flower the election of his successor as Chairman of the Board be postponed until the autumn meeting.

It was also decided that the vacancies caused by the death of Henry W. Sage and ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower be postponed until the fall meeting of the Board.

The other vacancies were then filled as follows: CHARLES SIDNEY SHEPARD, elected by the Board, succeeded Charles Sidney Shepard, term expired, June 21st, 1899,

HIRAM W. SIBLEY, elected by the Board, succeeded Hiram W. Sibley, term expired, June 21st, 1899.

STEWART L. WOODFORD, elected by the Board, succeeded Stewart L. Woodford, term expired, June 21st, 1899. HENRY W. SACKETT, elected by the Alumni, succeeded John DeWitt Warner, term expired, June 21st, 1899.

RUTH PUTNAM, elected by the Alumni, succeeded M. Carey Thomas, term expired, June 21st, 1899.

THE FACULTIES

The work of the Faculties has been performed during the last year with unusual smoothness and efficiency, and the relations between the various Colleges have been most harmonious. Fewer changes than usual have taken place. The vacancy caused by the resignation of Professor James Seth has been filled by the appointment of Professor E. B. McGilvary, and the temporary vacancies caused by the absence of Professors Willcox, Hammond, and Barr have been provided for by appointments for one year, as is also the case in the vacancy caused by Professor B. I. Wheeler's retirement. A small number of promotions were made, which seemed imperatively demanded by certain departments. Of this nature were the appointments of B. F. Kingsbury, formerly instructor, as assistant professor of microscopic methods, histology, and embryology, of M. V. Slingerland, formerly assistant entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, as assistant professor of economic entomology, and of W. Strunk, formerly instructor, as assistant professor of rhetoric and English philology.

Additions have also been made to the staff of the Medical College and the New York State College of Forestry. These additions and the changes above mentioned are given in the following paragraphs.

EVANDER BRADLEY MCGILVARY was appointed Sage professor of moral philosophy. Mr. McGilvary was born in Bangkok, Siam, in 1864. Coming in 1873 to the United States, he obtained at a private school at Fayetteville, North Carolina, and later at Bingham School in the same state an

education preparatory to entering Davidson College, from which he graduated, in 1884, as valedictorian. From 1886 to 1888, he studied at Princeton, in the college and in the theological seminary, receiving in the latter year the degree of A.M. In 1889 he won the fellowship in New Testament Greek in the Princeton Theological Seminary, giving instruction in Greek during his year as fellow. In 1891 he was sent to Siam by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, for the purpose of translating the Bible into the Lao dialect of Siamese. By 1894, he had revised his mother's translation of the Gospel of Matthew and had translated from the original Greek the Gospels of Luke and John and the Acts of the Apostles, all of which were published by the American Bible Society. Mr. McGilvary was then recalled by the Board of Missions on account of his inability to accept the deliverances of the Presbyterian General Assembly on questions of doctrine and on the higher biblical criticism. Upon returning to America, he was appointed instructor in English literature in the University of California. The following year he became instructor in logic and psychology. In 1897 he received the Ph.D. degree, and was promoted to be assistant professor of logic and the theory of knowledge. Aside from the Bible versions already mentioned, his publications include articles on the Hegelian Logic and the dialectic method, published in the Philosophical Review and in Mind, and various book reviews contributed to the former publication.

JAMES EWING was appointed professor of pathology. Dr. Ewing is a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He obtained his academic education from Amherst College, of which he is an A.B. (1888) and an A. M. (1892). His professional education he obtained at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he received the M.D. degree in 1891; in the West Pennsylvania Hospital, the Roosevelt Hospital, and the Sloane Maternity Hospital; and in the Universities of Berlin in Germany and Vienna in Austria. From 1893 to 1897, Dr. Ewing held the position of tutor in histology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1897 to 1899 he was instructor in clinical microscopy, and from 1896 to 1899 he was also Clark fellow in pathology, both in the same institution. During the

period 1896-99 he was likewise instructor in histology, pathology, and bacteriology in the New York College of Dentistry. For the past six years he has served as assistant pathologist in the Roosevelt Hospital, and for the past five years as pathologist in the Sloane Maternity Hospital. His publications are : Notes on Clinical Diagnosis (1898); Studies on Ganglion Cells (1899); and minor articles on pathological subjects.

MARK VERNON SLINGERLAND was appointed assistant professor of economic entomology. Mr. Slingerland, after preparing for college, spent three years as a school teacher before entering Cornell in the fall of 1887. In 1889 he was made assistant entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, a position which he still holds. Continuing his studies, he graduated in 1892 with the degree of B.S. in Agr. He is a member of Sigma Xi. Mr. Slingerland has published about twenty bulletins on injurious insects, and numerous articles in the leading entomological journals, and in agricultural papers. He is well known throughout the State as a lecturer on entomological topics, and as chairman of the committee on entomology of the Western New York Horticultural Society, and was, in 1898, appointed by Governor Black State Entomologist. Legal complications, however, made this appointment. of doubtful validity, and Professor Slingerland remained to accept his present position in the University.

WILLIAM STRUNK, JR., was appointed assistant professor of rhetoric and English philology. Dr. Strunk prepared for college in the public schools of Cincinnati, and in 1890 graduated A.B. from the University of Cincinnati. The year 1890-91 he spent as instructor in mathematics in the Rose Polytechnic Institute, at Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1891 he was appointed instructor in English in this University, which position he held until in 1898 he resigned to accept a fellowship in English philology. This having been made for the time a traveling fellowship, Dr. Strunk spent 1898-99 in attendance upon the courses of the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, Paris. He received the title of Élève de l'École des Hautes Études. In 1896 he received the degree of Ph.D. from this University. Dr. Strunk is editor of two volumes of annotated English classics, in the English Reading Series.