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President Eliot will speak on "Medical Research" in New York this afternoon at the opening of the new Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He will leave for New York this morning, returning by a late train tonight...
...Blackwell, Fellow for Research in Physics for one year from September...
...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 that...
...never cared very much for the closet study of exact sciences, and although he constantly applied mathematical computations in interpreting and generalizing from natural phenomena, he regarded such processes as a useful instrument of research rather than an end worth while in themselves. Tangible, physical facts were his chief interest...
During the terrible disaster at Mt. Pelee in 1902 Professor Jaggar was sent forward on the first government relief ship that left this country, and while there made an exhaustive research into the natural phenomena which caused the eruption...