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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



OGDEN N. ROOD. 

 In the death of Professor Ogden N. 

 Rood, America has lost one of its few 



artist no longer belong to distinct 

 types. They take their places in an 

 organized army with generals, petty 



men of genius. He belonged to a type officers and privates; there is no longer 

 of the scientific man which seems to be place for the adventurer. But Rood 



OGDEN N. ROOD. 



disappearing. Scientific work is be- was a man of genius, in the sense in 

 coming in its methods somewhat like which the word is popularly and per- 

 any other business and the man of haps properly used. There was some- 

 science, the man of letters and the thing unexpected and unaccountable 



