Obituary.

Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, LL.D., Erving Professor of Mineralogy and Chemistry, died at his summer residence in Newport, R. I., September 3, after an illness of some length.

Professor Cooke was born in Boston, October 12, 1827. He entered Harvard College in 1845 and graduated with the class of '48. In 1849 he was appointed an instructor and a year later was elected to the Erving professorship which he held at the time of his death. He married Miss Mary Huntington who survives him. They had no children.

During the forty-five years of Professor Cooke's connection with the University his services both to the University and chemical science have been of great value. He was largely influential in the recent development of the laboratory system of instruction which is rapidly replacing the old methods of teaching throughout the country. By the application of that system at Harvard he built up the department of chemistry and gave it a recognized position in the scientific world. Professor Cooke himself was a scholar of the highest rank and his individual investigations attracted widespread attention both in the United States and in Europe. He wrote a large number of books and papers and lectured frequently on scientific subjects. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Cambridge and was one of the most prominent members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His principal works were: "Religion and Chemistry," "The Elements of Chemical Physics," "The Principles of Chemical Philosophy," "The New Chemistry," and "Scientific Culture."

Professor Cooke was one of the best known professors in the University and won the respect and affection of all who came in contact with him. To the large number of men who met him in Chemistry A, as well as to those who had the privilege of working in closer relations with him whether as colleagues or as pupils, his death has come as a severe loss.

FREEMAN SNOW '73.Dr. Freeman Snow, Instructor in International Law, died at Nelson, Penn., September 12.

Dr. Snow was born in Palmyra, New York. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted and was in active service until wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill.

For a time he was an instructor at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and afterward taught in the Boston Latin School. In 1881 he was appointed instructor in forensics and American history at Harvard and in 1886 instructor in international law.

Dr. Snow was the author of a number of valuable books on international law, and was one of the leading authorities on that subject in the country. Only recently he completed a course of lectures at the naval college at Newport.

Dr. Snow was a widower and left no children.

MOSES EDGAR STAPLES '97.Moses Edgar Staples '97 was accidentally killed while bathing at Ogunquit, Maine, July 28. In company with a friend he was diving from a boat and was killed by striking his head upon a rock. Staples fitted for college at Exeter where he attained high rank as a scholar. He was a conscientious student and made many friends.