The Days of a Man 1910 



private grounds and turn around. I am sure he 

 never took a back track before ! 



Tring On a trip to Oxford, Stolz and I stopped at the 



Museum \{^\ e town of Tring, where Baron Walter Rothschild, 

 the ornithologist, maintains a finely kept museum 

 in which he and his colleagues, Dr. Ernst Hartert 

 and Dr. Karl Jordan, have done admirable work on 

 birds, mammals, and insects. Hartert I had met in 

 Gratz, where I found him one of the most rational 

 of taxonomists, and he as well as Karl Jordan became 

 in due time a member of the Nomenclature Com- 

 mission. Rothschild's monographs on the Birds of 

 Laysan Island is one of the most complete as well as 

 most beautiful treatises in the whole range of Orni- 

 thology. With this member of a famous house my 

 acquaintance has been slight, but one must admire 

 a man who puts his large fortune and his money- 

 making power at the service of science. 



Arrived at Oxford, we at once sought out the 

 quarters assigned to Stolz in St. John's College. 

 These were ample but a little bare and medieval, 

 though satisfying in historic picturesqueness. The 

 With evening we spent with Dr. Osier, to whose incom- 

 Osier parable care I consigned Stolz as a student in medi- 

 cine. But having talked till after ten o'clock, we 

 found the gates at St. John's closed for the night, 

 which my companion perforce spent with me at the 

 famous and venerable "Mitre." 



The negro While in London I was asked by the Eugenics 

 problem Ed uca tion Society to speak on the negro problem, a 

 matter in which many people seemed deeply inter- 

 ested, a few regarding it as certain sooner or later 

 to wreck the Republic because democratic equality 

 involved the political and social parity of two races, 



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