Jokichi Takamine
　Dr. JOKICHI TAKAMINE, the eminent scientist whose funeral was held in St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, was one of many Japanese scholars whose attainments in research and invention have inscribed their names high on the roster of public benefactors. He was a close and unerring analyst, whose constructive work in chemistry was based on his exact knowledge of the elements with which he dealt. In his own calling he rank ed with the most distinguished men of his day.
  But Dr. TAKAMINE was more than a great chemist, more than a l eader in the splendid work of conquering the mysteries of nature for the benefit of mankind. He was a cosmopolitan with a worldwide outlook, an intelligent laborer in the cause of inter national peace, an ambassador of amity from one family of human beings to another.
   His mentality was so resilient and alert that his absorbing s cientific obligations did not obscure his vision of politics in its larger aspects. For many years he was by choice a resident of the United States, but this fact did not impair his affection for h is native land. He strove to foster between Japanese and Americans that concord of feeling all enli ghtened men long to see permanently established. He contributed importantly from his wisdom and exp erience and good will to the removal of misunderstandings between individuals of the two countries a nd between officials of the two Governments. Indeed, his ambition to promote good feeling between America and Japan may have hastened his death, for at the time of the Washington conference, when c aution counseled regard for his impaired health, his unselfish ambition led him to great exertions as an aid to the negotiators.
   In Dr. TAKAMINE's death Japa n has lost a great son, the United S tates a valuable friend and the world a scientist of high achievement.

世界的に日本人として、其移住して居られた所の国民に深く愛せられ、其移住した国民に向かって大なる発明を与へ、而して其移住した国民間に於ても相当なる富を成して、所謂無冠の大使として日米間の親善にこれだけ貢献した、是だけの歴史を有する学者が外にありますか、政治家がありますか、軍人がありますか…（中略）…斯く見来ると、故博士が如何に偉大なる人物、世界的に又日本の歴史に於て大切なる人であるか、二千五百年の歴史に於て初めての人である。而も其人は常に平和に、学術に発明に、産業という洵に結構なことにのみ貢献せられて、此名をなした所の人であるのであります。