The Days of a Man 1891 



Ich hab's gewagt mil Sinnen, 

 Und trag dessnoch kein Reu. 



With open eyes I have dared it, 

 To cherish no regret. 



NOTE 



My readers will perhaps pardon me for inserting here the 

 following extract from an address of Dr. Evermann before the 

 Indiana Academy of Sciences, in 1916: 



'The greatest impetus ever given to zoological research 

 and investigation in Indiana occurred when David Starr 

 Jordan came to Indianapolis in 1874 as a teacher of natural 

 history in the high school of that city. He was then a young 

 man scarcely out of his teens, of great physical and mental 

 vigor, with unbounded energy and enthusiasm, and already 

 appreciative of the richness of the fauna and flora of the state. 



' * - - . ' . . 



'The twelve years (1879-91) spent by Dr. Jordan at Indiana 

 University were among the most productive of his life, not 

 only in relation to zoological science in general but to zoology 

 in Indiana in particular. The influence upon the state was 

 epoch-making. The effect of training so many of its young 

 men and women in the method of science and sending them out 

 over the state and beyond its borders imbued with the spirit 

 of the real naturalist who seeks truth, who sees things as they 

 are, and who knows animals when he meets them in the open, 

 cannot be overestimated. Many and varied were the problems 

 in zoological science that these young men and women in- 

 vestigated, studied, and attempted to solve. They were by 

 no means confined to the fauna of Indiana. In Ichthyology 

 their field was world-wide. It is true, however, that the rich- 

 ness of the Indiana fauna appealed to many of these young 

 naturalists, and zoological literature has been greatly enriched 

 by their contributions." 



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