At a meeting of the Board of Overseers, held March 11, the appointment of Dean Sabine of the Lawrence Scientific School to the position of Dean of the Graduate School of Applied Science was approved. This appointment merely provides an office in the Graduate School of Science for Dean Sabine, to correspond with the duties he has carried in the capacity of acting head of the new school, which until now has been without the office of Dean.

Dean Sabine was awarded a Harvard degree of A.M. in 1888, and was appointed assistant in Physics in 1889, instructor in 1890, assistant Professor in 1895, Professor in 1905, and Dean of the Lawrence Scientific School in 1906. The Graduate School of which he becomes dean was established in 1906 to succeed the applied science division of the Lawrence Scientific School and has been largely developed through his efforts. In 1907, part of the students registered in the Lawrence school were transferred to Harvard College, and the rest to the Graduate School of Applied Science, thus terminating the existence of the Lawrence Scientific School.

The resignation of Professor Reginald Heber Fitz '64, Hersey Professor of Tehory and Practice of Physic, was accepted, Professor Fitz having reached the age limit for doctors in the Massachusetts General Hospital, established by custom for the resignation of the Medical School Professors. In 1868 Professor Fitz received his M.D. at Harvard, and then spent two years in foreign study. On his return he practiced a year in Boston, and in 1871 was appointed Instructor in the University, since when he has held the important position of Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy and Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic. He has written several works upon the subject of appendicitis, on which he is a recognized authority.

The Board also approved the appointment of Professor A. A. Howard '82 as Pope Professor of Latin, to succeed the late Professor Minton Warren. Professor Howard was appointed Tutor in Latin in 1890, assistant Professor in 1893, and Professor in 1901. The Pope Professorship to which he now succeeds is an honorary position in the Classical Department, and has been filled by George Martin Lane '46, Clement Lawrence Smith '63, and Minton Warren.

The appointment of Professor Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., '82, as Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence was approved. The recipient has held the important positions of Bussey Professor of Law at Harvard, and of Dean of the Law School in the University of Chicago.

In addition, the appointments of Assistant Professor C. J. Bullock to a full professorship, of J. L. Coolidge '94 as Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and of A. M. Tozzer as Instructor in Central American Archaeology were approved. The resignation of George Arthur Craigin '85, Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics, was accepted.