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brother, Charles P. Bowditch, like the father, though engaging in business pursuits, was keenly 

 alive to scientific matters and made important contributions to American archeology. Five 

 daughters and two sons survive in the line of Henry P. Bowditch to carry on the family 

 characteristics. 



There is an intellectual inheritance which may be transmitted from person to person out- 

 side of family ties. The stimulating eagerness for research received from Ludwig his stu- 

 dents carried far and wide. Bowditch brought the spirit to the United States. The manifold 

 services demanded of him and regarded by him as duties, that have been referred to in the 

 foregoing pages, encroached upon his time and prevented him from devoting himself, as he 

 otherwise might have done, to physiological research. The conflict between scientific study 

 and administrative activities seems to have disturbed him, for it is recorded that occasionally 

 in the late years of his life he would ask a friend whether his life would not have been of greater 

 service if he had devoted himself exclusively to experimental physiology. The question is a 

 difficult one to answer. It is true, however, that he was not drawn away from research until 

 he had transmitted to others the inspiration he had drawn from Ludwig and the Leipzig group. 

 Thus in the line of intellectual inheritance he could claim, among his own direct successors, 

 William James, James J. Putnam, G. Stanley Hall, Warren P. Lombard, Walter B. Cannon, 

 Joseph W. Warren, and many others whom his enthusiasm and his imagination and his sterling 

 honesty and love of truth had influenced. 



