HOWARD H. HIGBEE was born in 1861 near Cleveland, Ohio, and received his early education and preparation for college in that city. He graduated from Yale University in 1884, and spent the next few years in teaching, after which he entered Johns Hopkins University as a student in the department of Chemistry. From this institution he obtained the degree of Ph. D. in 1895; and in the Fall of the same year he came to Tufts College as Instructor in Quantitative Analysis. Mr. Higbee obtained a portion of his training in Europe, where he spent two years in study and travel.