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William W. Norman, who became professor in the University 

 of Texas and died untimely. 



Among other fine fellows in my department were Willis S. 

 Blatchley, who became state geologist of Indiana; Aldred S. 

 Warthin, botanist, now professor of Pathology in the University 

 of Michigan; and Ernest P. Bicknell, who rose to the headship 

 of a division of the American Red Cross. 



Among graduate students who took their Doctor's degree Graduate 

 with me were Seth E. Meek, later known for his explorations students 

 of the rivers of Mexico and Central America while acting as 

 curator in the Field Museum at Chicago, and Oliver P. Jenkins, 

 whose best zoological work was the investigation of the fish 

 fauna of Hawaii. Jenkins, however, devoted himself after- 

 ward to Physiology and became the first professor of that 

 subject in Stanford University, retiring as emeritus in 1916. 



To a somewhat different category belonged Gilbert (already 

 amply introduced), who had become assistant professor in my 

 department, and McKay, my best student at Appleton, who 

 later followed me to Butler and then on to Bloomington, and 

 of whose death I have previously written. But here enters for 

 the first time Joseph Swain, who succeeded Gilbert in my 

 laboratory though as instructor only when the latter 

 went to the University of Cincinnati. Swain was a young 

 Quaker giant, six feet four and broad in porportion, a great 

 athlete, a man of royal good nature, who entered the university 

 as freshman the year I came as professor (1879). Seeing that 

 he showed much promise, I early persuaded him to work for 

 a professorship in either Biology or Mathematics. As a matter 

 of fact, he specialized in both, becoming first instructor in the 

 one and then in the other, and afterward professor of Mathe- 

 matics in succession to Dr. Kirkwood. Of his subsequent 

 career I shall frequently have occasion to speak. 



Of course, not all those who did advanced work with me in- Not all 

 tended to become professional zoologists. Bert Fesler once zoologists 

 said that he got his best training for the law from a study 

 of the mackerel tribe! Other ambitious students with whom I 

 came into more or less intimate contact were Ellwood P. Cub- 

 berley, now for many years professor of Education at Stanford; 

 Rufus L. Green, who succeeded Swain as professor of Mathe- 

 matics at Indiana, and who later followed him to Stanford; 



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