at Tokio until his death in 1900, and founder
of the study of sociology in Japan.

Though most of the men of attainment in science have continued in
University positions, Robert S. Woodward, 72_e_, President of the
Carnegie Institution, Charles F. Brush, '69_e_, the inventor of the arc
light, Otto Klotz, '72_e_, Director of the Dominion of Canada
Observatory at Ottawa, William W. Campbell, '86_e_, Director of the Lick
Observatory, and Heber D. Curtiss, '92, at the same observatory, may be
mentioned as exceptions. All but the last were graduates of the
Engineering Department, among whose graduates are also to be numbered
A.A. Robinson, '69_e_, the late President of the Santa Fe and Mexican
Central railroads, Alfred Noble, '70_e_, until his death the leading
American engineer, Henry G. Prout, '71_e_, one time governor of the
Equatorial Provinces of Africa and later editor of the _Railroad
Gazette_, Cornelius Donovan, '72_e_, the builder of the great jetties at
the mouth of the Mississippi, Joseph Ripley, '76, the designer of the
Panama Canal locks, and Howard Coffin, '03, automobile engineer, and
chairman of the war-time aviation board.

Aside from the graduates of the Medical School who have made
distinguished records on other medical faculties, the names of many
prominent practitioners and medical writers might be mentioned,
including Edmund Andrews, '49, '52_m_, an organizer of the Medical
School of Northwestern University, and founder of the Chicago Academy of
Sciences, Lewis S.F. Pilcher, '66_m_, the founder of _The Annals of
Surgery_, William J. Mayo, '83_m_, the distinguished surgeon of
Rochester, Minnesota, and Woods Hutchinson, '84_m_, of New York, a
popular writer on medical subjects. Among the Michigan graduates who
have made a record in the legal profession are to be found an unusual
number of distinguished occupants of the bench, including William L.
Day, '70, of the United States Supreme Court, who was Secretary of State
under McKinley and Chairman of the Board of Peace Commissioners after
the war with Spain, William B. Gilbert, '72_l_, Judge of the Ninth U.S.
Circuit at Portland, Oregon, Loyal E. Knappen, '73, and Arthur Dennison,
'83_l_, of the Sixth Circuit, and Francis E. Baker, '82_l_, of the
Seventh Circuit. There are twelve other Michigan graduates in the
Federal District judiciary in addition to John E. Carland, _l_'74-'75,
Circuit Judge assigned to the Court of Commerce at Washington, and
Fenton