The students are requested to consider themselves the hosts of the clergy, during their stay, and to assist in making their visit pleasant and profitable.

Tea for all the College will be served at the Commons, after Evening Prayer upon these Sundays, and all members of the College community, undergraduates, visiting alumni, instructors, professors and their families are invited to be present. GEO. WILLIAMSON SMITH, President.

It is not necessary to emphasize the importance in the religious life of the College of such a series of sermons and friendly visits from men distinguished alike by Christian earnestness and intellectual force.

We have already had the privilege of meeting and hearing the Right Reverend, the Bishop of Connecticut, and the Rev. John P. Peters, D. D.

On the evening of September 29th the Faculty and the Senior Class enjoyed the pleasure of meeting Bishop and Mrs. Brewster at the residence of the President.

On September 30th the Bishop preached in the morning a powerful and spiritually uplifting sermon from the text in St. Mark, 9:23, "And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth." He addressed the students again informally at Evening Prayer.

The Rev. Dr. Peters preached on the morning of October 21st on the Parable of the Rich Man in St. Luke, 16, 19-31. He first read the Parable in a felicitous, somewhat modernized translation, told what it does not teach, and then drew from it lessons as to the duty of the rich in the political and industrial conditions of to-day. Dr. Peters spoke again at Evening Prayer.

These sermons and addresses will be long remembered.

Both the Bishop and Dr. Peters received visits from many of the students during the morning and the afternoon. The Tea given in the evening to the whole College, under the auspices of the ladies of the College community, and the following informal reception in the Common Room, have been delightful features of these visits of our honored guests.

THE J. PIERPONT MORGAN PROFESSOR

OF NATURAL HISTORY.

For many years the Scovill professor of Chemistry in Trinity College has been also the Professor of Natural Science, though the instruction in the latter department has been given by a special instructor, since 1893 by Mr. William Harry Chichele Pynchon, M. A., whose faithful and energetic toils, as he leaves us for the profession of a Consulting Expert in Geology, invite a grateful recognition.

The generosity of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq., in giving to the College $15,000 to pay the salary of a distinct Professor of Natural History for a period of five years, has enabled the College to give the department of Natural History an independent position and its proper dignity. A man of high gifts, who has enjoyed every advantage of special training, has been appointed to the office. For a number of years the department of Physics has represented the highest scientific advance in that field, the Physics of Helmholtz of Berlin. The department of Chemistry teaches the science as understood and taught by Meyer of Gottingen. To-day it is a ground for special thanks and thanksgiving that the Biology of Trinity College is the biology of Jordan and Brooks and Whitman, and of that prince among naturalists and most eminent of living teachers of original investigators in biology, Leuckart of Leipzig.

The biologist elected is Dr. Charles Lincoln Edwards, whose academic record is as follows: B. S., Lombard University, 1884; B. S., Indiana University, 1886; M. A., Indiana University, 1887; student at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Leipzig, 1887 to 1890; Ph. D., Leipzig, 1890; Fellow in Clark University, 1890 to 1892; assistant professor of biology, University of Texas, 1892 to 1893: adjunct professor of biology in the same University, 1893 to 1894; professor of biology, University of Cincinnati, 1894 to 1900.

Dr. Edwards has spent five summers in investigations in southern waters, one each at Green Turtle Bay, Harbor Island, and Bemino Island in the Bahamas, one along the coast of Florida and one at points on the coast of Texas.

His experience in practical biological work in southern waters has led him to suggest the plan of having a Trinity Biological Sloop to cruise and investigate during the summer months, in short a moving Biological Laboratory. How fruitful in original results the scheme would prove is suggested by the number and character of Dr. Edwards's own publications. His bibliography already numbers in his special field the following titles, among which are inserted a number of contributions to the literature of Folk Lore, in which he has found recreation and also won recognition :

The Relation of the Pectoral Muscles in Birds to the Power of

Flight. American Naturalist, Jan. 1886, Vol. 20; pp. 25-29.

A Review of the American Species of the Tetraodontidae (with President David S. Jordan). Proc. of U. S. Nat. Mus., 1886, p. 232.

The Influence of Warmth upon the Irritability of Frog's Muscle and Nerve. Studies from Biol. Lab., Johns Hopkins University, July, 1887.

An Expression of Animal Sympathy. American Naturalist, Dec. 1887, Vol. 21; p. 1129.

Winter Roosting Colonies of Crows. Am. Jour. of Psy., May, 1888, Vol. 1; pp. 436-459.

Notes on the Embryology of Mülleria Agassizii, Sel., a Holothurian common at Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas. Johns Hopkins University Circular, 1889, Vol. 8; p. 37.

Folk-Lore of the Bahama Negroes. Am. Jour. of Psy., Aug., 1889, Vol. 2; pp. 519-542.

Beschreibung einiger neuen Copepoden und eines neuen copepodenähnlichen Krebses, Leuckartella paradoxa. Archiv. f. Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 1891, Jahrg. 57, Bd I.; 35 PP.

Some Tales from Bahama Folk-Lore. Jour. of Am. Folk-Lore, 1891, Vol. 4; pp. 47-54.

Some Tales from Bahama Folk-Lore. Fairy Tales. Ibid., pp' 247-252.

Bahama Songs and Stories. (Vol. 3 of Memoirs of the Am. FolkLore Society.) Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1895; 111 pp. Notes on the Biology of Phrynosoma Cornutam Harlan. Zool. Anzeiger, 1896.

Variation and Regeneration in Synapta inhaerens. Science, Feb. 2, 1900. New Series, Vol. XI, No. 266; p. 178.

Animal Myths and Their Origin. Jour. of Am. Folk-Lore, 1900 Vol. XIII, No. XLVIII; pp. 33-43.

The Lower Temperature Limits in the Incubation of the Eggs of the Common Fowl. Science, New Series, Vol. XI.

Dr. Edwards is a member of the American Society of Naturalists; member of the American Morphological Society; president of the American Folk-Lore Society, 1899; Socio Corresponsal de la Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística, Mexico; Socio Honorario de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural; Socio Honorario de la Sociedad Antonio Alzate.

Dr. Elwards is ably assisted by Mr. Clarence Wilson Hahn, B. S., a graduate in 1899 of the University of Cincinnati, a Fellow in Biology there 1898 to 1899, and Instructor there 1899 to 1900.