Professor Lovering was one of the men to whom Harvard must attribute much of her high fame gained in the middle years of the present century. Those were the years in which the beginnings of true scientific investigation were being made in America. To strengthen these first feeble efforts Professor Lovering brought all the powers of a far-reaching mind and a noble zeal. In this, his work, he brought strongly to the front the name of Harvard which he helped to identify with all that was best in educational and scientific advance in this country.

He gave the vitality of his mind and body to Harvard's service. In deploring his death, we can yet be glad in realizing that the end did not come until the results of his long years of earnest activity were well established; until the University and its students appreciated the value of his efforts and were already pressing forward to the same ideals towards which he advanced so far.