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A FEW TRIBUTES ON THE AUTHOR'S 

 SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY 



To make any choice from among the many declarations of 

 loyalty and warm esteem contained in telegrams, unofficial 

 letters, and messages received on January 19, 1921, seems 

 quite impossible. I have in consequence limited my selec- 

 tions to a few of those of more formal nature. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



January 13, 1921 



DEAR DOCTOR JORDAN: 



On the occasion of your seventieth birthday, permit me, in 

 behalf of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum, 

 to offer my congratulations as well as thanks for your faithful 

 cooperation during half a century. 



For fully fifty years you have labored for the high ideals 

 expressed by the Founder of this Institution in the words - 

 "Increase and diffusion of knowledge among men" and for 

 nearly the same period your work has been in close association 

 with the Institution and its staff. 



Your work has also been intimately connected with the 

 National Museum since its organization as such, and your 

 scientific papers are among the most valued contributions to 

 the Museum's publications from its very first volume to the 

 latest. Your early associations were with Baird, Gill, Brown 

 Goode, and Tarleton Bean, and your name will go down in the 

 Museum's history linked with theirs. No wonder we have 

 always regarded you as one of us, and we know that this senti- 

 ment is being reciprocated by you. 



As a slight token of my appreciation of your services to science 

 and to the Museum, may I not ask you to accept the designa- 

 tion as Honorary Associate in Zoology? 



Trusting that you may be spared for many more years to 

 continue your work, I am 



Very truly yours, 



CHARLES D. WALCOTT, 



Secretary 



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