too late as tuberculosis, had begun in the previous fall, following a pleasant summer in Europe, where he was continuing his studies of sewage treatment methods. He had been a teacher of Chemistry since 1882, and head of the department since 1892. He had achieved a high place in his profession, serving as consultant on numerous sanitary projects and controversies, and reading papers before scientific bodies at home and abroad, yet it was for his human characteristics that generations of students were to remember him. His frank advice on morals and hygiene, his amusing displays of absentmindedness in the lecture room, and the frequent financial lifts that he gave to boys who had reached the limit of their resources, created for him an enduring place in the Institute tradition. It was characteristic that he should write into his will a provisional bequest, payable after Mrs. Kinnicutt's death, "if in the opinion of the presidents of Amherst and Williams colleges (the Institute) remains a scientific and not a trade school. "It expressed the misgivings that some members of the faculty experienced as they watched the controversies between the industrial and the academic departments.