2 ARTHUR W. GREELEY. 



industrious and accurate investigator of great scientific ability, 

 doing work of a most fundamental character. All of those who 

 knew him feel that in his death a man of great promise has 

 passed away. 



Dr. Greeley was born in Oswego, New York State, in 1875. 

 He took his undergraduate degree in Stanford University in 

 1898, and spent one year as a graduate student in zoology, 

 during which he went to Alaska with the fur-seal expedition and 

 to Brazil with the Agassiz expedition. The following year he 

 was a teacher in the State Normal School at San Diego, leaving 

 there to enter the University of Chicago as fellow in physiology. 

 Two years later he took his doctorate of philosophy under Loeb 

 with a thesis on the action of low temperatures on the infusoria, 

 and was then appointed Assistant Professor of Zoology at the 

 Washington University, in St. Louis. For three summers he 

 was a member of the staff of instruction in physiology at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's Roll. During his two 

 years of residence in St. Louis his enthusiasm and unusual per- 

 sonality had already aroused marked interest in biological science 

 in that city. 



Dr. Greeley was of a rare and winning personality, remarkable 

 for extraordinary enthusiasm which inspired all with whom he 

 came in contact. He had a happy disposition, great courage and 

 high principles. His frank open nature, his consideration for 

 others and his loyalty made him many friends ; and he had no 

 enemies. He was an inspiring teacher. To his university, to his 

 friends and to his colleagues his sad death at the outset of a 

 most promising career is an irreparable loss. 



A. P. MATHEWS. 



