No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
WITH the passing of Dr. Frazer, the Institute loses the guidance of one of those members whose intellectual attainments and professional achievements have earned for it the recognition and respect of the scientific world.
Although deeply engaged in professional pursuits and in scientific investigations resulting in the production of a veritable library of monographs and papers, he found the time and energy to devote himself during many years to the promotion of the Institute's welfare.
His interest in the Institute may be said to have come as a heritage (some of the present-day members can recall the brilliant lectures on Chemistry delivered by his distinguished father, John Fries Frazer) . That interest never flagged throughout the long period of his activities.
His historical sketch and plea for a better appreciation of the Institute's aims, entitled " The Franklin Institute: Its Services and Deserts," delivered in Feb ruary, 1908, may be mentioned in testimony of his thoughtful solicitude for the Institute's progress.
Again, about his very last act was the editing of a report for the JOURNAL of a Comprehensive lecture on the Bertillon System of Identification, delivered some months previously before the Institute, interrupted by his last illness.
It is not merely as a valued contributor in technical and literary work that his loss will be keenly felt. As a member of the Board of Managers he always'took an active part and rendered valuable service in the deliberations of that body.
Many men point with just pride to having achieved distinction by their own. unaided and unguided efforts.
Dr. Frazer was the very antithesis of the self-made man.
Behind his distinctions lie a long line of distinguished antecedents, a scholarly atmosphere and unexcelled opportunity to secure a training, the result of which constitutes a monument to his memory.
Persifor Frazer, geologist and chemist, was the fifth generation of the male line of his name in the United States, and was born in Philadelphi'a, July 24, 1844.
He was educated in Phila-7.5
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