Class of 1889
In the June issue mention was made of Mrs. John Barrett's serious illness and return to her home in Burlington, Vt. She did not rally, but died June 9. John has been in Burlington most of the summer, but in August made a two weeks' trip to Chicago and other mid-western cities. He made several addresses on the Chinese and Japanese \var situation. He also attended the wedding of a niece in Freeport, 111. His plan is to return to Coral Gables early in October A letter from Ralph Bart- lett, written August 27, on the S.S. Paris, showed that he was en route to London, Copenhagen, Helsingfors, Russia, and expected to return to Boston late in October. The previous evening he had entertained at dinner three Dartmouth undergraduates, class of '39, who were on their way to France for a year of study—"All fine fellows.I have written a letter to President Hopkins comme?iding them for their outstanding conduct in the large groups of college students aboard ship." .... Besides "Prexie," Arthur Chase and "E. B." Davis have been in Europe this summer. The former sent the Secretary a card from the "Repubblica di S. Marino, the smallest and oldest republic in the world," and the latter one from "distracted Paris." .... Ned Dearborn wrote in May that he had been in Washington to attend a meeting of the American Society of Mammologists. This condensed quotation from the May 5 issue of Science Service shows that Ned was persuaded to talk: "Hairs are not just hairs to Ned Dearborn, biologist of Hilton Village, Va. Under his microscope, crosssections of them show sizes and shapes as characteristic as the animals themselves. He has studied particularly the guard hairs of various kinds of mammals—the longer, glossier hairs that form the sleek, shining coat over the fluffier fur beneath Hairs are by no means always simply and smoothly round in cross-sectional outline. Many are elliptical or oval, and some have groovings or channelings in a great variety of patterns. In general, all the carnivores have round, elliptical, or oval cross-sections, whereas many of the herbivorous animals, particularly in the large rodent family, have concavities or flutings. Where there is only one indenting groove or channel, it is always turned towards the outside, away from the skin, giving the animal the effect of a tiled roof rather than a simple thatch The finest hair examined by Mr. Dearborn was that of the bats, which has a diameter of about ten microns, or four thousandths of an inch. The nearly round hairs of coyote and mink are seven or eight times as large, and the longer diameter of the elliptical hairs of otter and beaver exceed the bat hair's diameter a dozen times." Flagg was in Hanover August 7, to attend the wedding of his grand-nephew, Emerson Day, and Ruth Fairfield. Day '34, a fourth-year student in the Harvard Medical School, is the grandson of "Chuck" Emerson and son of Edmund E. Day 'O4, president of Cornell. .... The degree of LL.D. was conferred on two members of our class in June, C. D. Hazed and Warden. Smith College honored its former professor of history and the University of Montana its distinguished citizen. "C. D." wrote that he and Mrs. Hazen were to spend the summer in Lenox, Mass., "a beautiful spot with a very nicelibrary, where I hope to do a little andpossibly much work." Warden has many interests, but at present his duties as president of the National Reclamation Association are prominent and require traveling and speaking in the northwestern states with occasional trips to Washington In late August the Secretary had the pleasure of a very brief call on Moulton in Montpelier. He seemed well, vigorous, happy, and busy Also in late August the Secretary missed a call from Wheat, who did not leave, with his card, a story of his summer travels. Perhaps he will tell us about them later.
Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston
