MEMOIR OF A. S. BTCKMORE 19 



of his love for travel and exploration.^ After preparation in the district 

 school and in several academies, he entered Dartmouth College, gradu- 

 ating in 1860. His college expenses were partly paid l)y money earned 

 for teaching during the vacations. Four years' study under the great 

 ]iatiiralist and geologist, Louis Agassiz, in the Lawrence Scientific Scliool 

 of Harvard University, prepared him for his later researches. 



His extensive researches during his Oriental voyage were not only in 

 tlie field of natural science, in the narrowest sense, but included tlie 

 domain of ethnography, and liis discovery of the curious Ainu pco|)l('. 

 tlie aborigines of Japan, was an iuiporlant contribution to tliis science. 

 However, his long, ai'duous, and fnitlitul service in the American Museum 

 of Natural History was the crowning glory of his career. Tic bad charge 

 of the Department of i^iblic Instruction from 1S82 to 1!)04. His brief 

 professorship of natural history at Madison (now Colgate) University. 

 Hamilton, New York, Avas partly coincident with the undertaking of his 

 life task in building uj) our wonderTul ^luseum. 



Professor Bickmore was the recipient of the following titles and de- 

 grees : 



A. B., Dartmouth, 1800, A. M., 1863; B. S., Harvard, 1864; Tb. D., 

 Hamilton, 1869, Dartmouth College, 1880; LL. D., Colgate, 1005; Life 

 Fellow, Eoyal Geographical Society, London; Fellow American Geograi)])- 

 ical Society, New York Academy of Sciences, A. A. A. S. : Trustee Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, Colgate, U., Vassar College. 



While studying under Prof. Louis Agassiz, whose only I'eniaining i)upil 

 is Dr. David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, be became 

 his assistant, and went to Bermuda, collecting for Cambridge Museum. 

 Ue also traveled in the East Indian Archipelago, China and Japan, Si- 

 beria, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Berlin, and London during the years 

 from 1865 to 1868 ; became professor of natural history in j\radison (now 

 Colgate) Universitv, 1860 ; superintendent of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, 1860-1884, and in the same institution pi-ofessor in 

 charge of the Departinent of Public Instruction since 188"2. He again 

 Iraveb'd, in 1805 to 1004, gathering data and illustralions I'oi- lectures 

 on natural bistory, geography, and history, and be aftcrwai'd |)ublisbed 

 travels in the East Indian Archipelago in New York, London, and Jena, 

 l^rofessor Bickmore did his pai't in the Civil \\i\v as well, serving for 

 nine niontlis in the 44th Massachusetts N'olunleers in ISC-.^ and IS63. 



Professor Bickmore. in 1875, was one of the handsomest and luoM 

 kindly men I had ever met. lie lold me. of his inception of the Museum 



' Sco biogrnphicnl skrleli of l'ri>l'('ss(jr I'.ickiiuirc. hy .1. M. I'.., in the Wali'liinaii-Rx- 

 iUiiiniT, New York and Boston, August -'.'>. lull, i<. 11."'.). 



