The Days of a Man 1875 



Butler removed from Indianapolis to Irvington, a suburb 

 University fi ve m ii es distant and since included within the city. 

 This being the case, my first professional duty was 

 to steer a dray wagon loaded with collections and 

 apparatus on its several trips from College Avenue 

 to the new site. Coincident with removal, the 

 burdensome original name was changed to 'Butler 

 University ' in honor of its principal founder, 

 Mr. Ovid Butler of Indianapolis, a broad-minded 

 and fine-spirited member of the Christian 1 Church. 

 The institution making no provision for graduate 

 study, it later became "Butler College," and has 

 done continuously good work in collegiate education. 

 My position was that of Dean of Science, and I 

 spent four years in the service, Herbert Copeland 

 having meanwhile taken my former position in the 

 Indianapolis High School. 



As housing conditions were inadequate in Irving- 

 ton, I continued to reside in Indianapolis for another 

 year, sharing with Copeland a modest establishment 

 joint at 320 Ash Street. Here we resumed our joint 

 studies studies of flowers and birds begun at Cornell and 

 continued in Wisconsin. Soon, however, we decided 

 that fishes offered the most fruitful field for original 

 work. Systematic Botany involved travel and ex- 

 pense beyond our reach, and we were not especially 

 drawn to the problems (then inchoate) of cytology, 

 morphology, and physiology. But fishes were every- 

 where about us. Moreover, the literature of Ich- 



1 "Christian" is used specifically to designate the denomination in question, 

 because its founder, Alexander Campbell of Virginia, hoped that by dropping 

 creeds and going back to the Bible as the basis of faith and practice, all Chris- 

 tian denominations could be merged into one. 



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