that may have been only deferred. At all events, it was a significant 

 symptom of the general unrest and apprehension among Princetonians, 

 which led to Dr. Patton's resignation in 1902. Dean West and Woodrow 

 Wilson were among the most severe critics of the administration, with 

 unfortunate results. 



Dr. Patton never carried out his intention of being naturalised, for 

 that would have involved the forfeiture of his property in Bermuda, 

 where he was born and to which he clung with tenacious affection. 

 He spent nearly all his summer vacations there and one year the family 

 returned from Bermuda much amused by a joke on their father, which 

 they hastened to spread in the community. At some celebration, Dr. 

 Patton had been one of the speakers and an old coloured woman, when 

 asked her opinion, had given the dictum that while "Mass' Hamilton 

 was very good. Mass' Patton was altogether too mathematicated and 

 academized" for her. The English language needs those words and 

 should not hesitate to adopt them. 



At the end of the year 1897 the Geological Society of America held 

 its annual meeting at Montreal, where I had been requested to present 

 a memoir on Cope as a geologist, almost to the exclusion of his work in 

 palaeontology, which was, of course, the principal achievement of his 

 life. The Society's headquarters were at the Windsor Hotel, where we 

 had stopped on our wedding journey. There I met for the first time, and 

 spent an evening with, the man who was subsequently to become so 

 close a friend and associate. Professor C. H. Smyth, Jr., of Hamilton 

 College. I was charmed with him and determined to get him to Prince- 

 ton as soon as possible, for he was a petrologist and covered a side of 

 geology of which I knew almost nothing, and I needed him to give the 

 course its proper balance. By a strange coincidence, Smyth had already 

 desired to come to Princeton and, after that meeting, wrote me several 

 letters on the subject, but it was not till 1905 that we were able to offer 

 him a position. 



While at Montreal, I had the pleasure of lunching with Sir William 

 Dawson and renewing my acquaintance with him, which was begun in 

 my Grandfather's house in 1873. For the first time I met Dr. George 

 Dawson, of the Canadian Survey, and accompanied him to Ottawa to 

 see the Survey's museum. All of this was a charming experience and the 

 cordial relations with the Canadian Survey, which were then begun, 

 have been kept up, almost without interruption, ever since. 



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