EDWARD LEWIS STURTEVANT. 79 
ried in 1882. He took great pride in his family, to which 
he was much devoted, and rarely sought companionship 
outside their midst. While at Geneva his wife and eldest 
daughter took keen interest in his studies of agricultural 
plants, and made under his direction hundreds of beautiful 
colored and other drawings of varieties and types of ears of 
corn and other plants, many of which served to illustrate 
his writings and especially those on maize, as published in 
the New York Station report for 1884. 
A man of less than average height and weight, and nerv- 
ous temperament, Dr. Sturtevant was a thinker of the most 
active type. He was gifted with great fertility of thought, 
as his coworkers at Geneva and intimate friends well know. 
Said one of those who had known him long, «Dr. Sturte- 
vant was one of the most remarkable men I ever knew, to 
suggest new ideas to others and set them to thinking.’’ 
His early training had given him liberal views, and he 
was well informed on topics of the time outside of his own 
special sphere of work. Such an industrious reader and 
lover of books could hardly be otherwise. He was not a 
great mingler with men, but he had a wide circle of friends, 
whose friendship he prized. Without a distinctive agricul- 
tural education, such as may be secured in the agricultural 
colleges of to-day, he had such a natural trend of mind in 
this direction, that he readily accomplished by the aid of 
his University training, what but few men in his generation 
could have done. Unquestionably the world is richer for 
his life, and mankind is his beneficiary. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The following so far as I have been able to learn is a 
complete list of the principal writings of Dr. Sturtevant, 
not including many short communications in agricultural 
and other journals. 
Why the Ayrshire Cow should be the Dairyman’s Choice. Trans. Ver- 
mont Dairymen’s Association, 1872, pp. 150-159. 
