CLASS OF 1899

The death of Carl O. Miller at the Stamford, Conn., Hospital on March 14 occurred after a brief illness from complications resulting from appendicitis. It was a great shock to his many friends, for until a week of the end Carl had appeared to be in his usual good health. Our sincere sympathy is extended to his wife, children, mother, and sister. A fuller memorial notice will be found in another column.

Our deep sympathy goes also to Arthur D. Wiggin, principal of the Danville, Vt., High School, whose wife died on February 3, after a period of poor health during some months.

Charles N. Currier is still supervisingl foreman with Gray and Davis, Inc., Amesbury, Mass. The company no longer manufactures carriage lamps, however, but has turned its facilities over into the production of automobile self-starters. It also does some armature winding.

Raymond Pearl, director of the department of biometry and vital statistics at Johns Hopkins University, is as indefatigable as ever in the publishing field. A partial record includes articles in "Science", "American Journal of Public Health," "American Geographical Society", "American Naturalist", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", to say nothing of the regular publications by Johns Hopkins itself, such as the "Hospital Bulletin" and the "Hospital Reports". One of Ray's favorite courses at the present time is on "Life Table Construction", in which he is using "with great satisfaction" the recent comprehensive and authoritative work on the "United States Life Tables .... and Mortality Tables of Insurance Companies", prepared by James W. Glover.

Arthur H.W. Norton writes from San Antonio, Texas, in March of the gradually increasing signs of spring, — from the family youngsters' clamor for bats and balls — stimulated by the big league teams training near by — to the first crops and migrating birds. "High winds and low temperatures", Doc says, "are hard on the peach and fig crops. The corn has not dared to sprout yet. I heard a curlew yesterday, so the birds must be in mind to migrate, but you don't feel real good till the brant and the sandhill cranes pass over. It is quite inspiring to see and hear a flock of thousands of brant rise from the marshes on the coast and strike out for Canada. Out in the sand hills the other day I flushed a whippoorwill, evidently 'en tour', as they don't live here. So spring can't be so very far away."

-Secretary, Kenneth Beal, 55 Botolph St., Melrose Highlands, Mass.