the undergraduate members of the club were deHghtful. While never 

 familiar, or "fresh," they treated me as one of themselves and did not 

 make a guest of me. Coming out of the club one evening, I was as- 

 tonished to find Hatcher at the gate. He had been driven out of Pata- 

 gonia by a terrible attack of inflammatory rheumatism and, though the 

 long, slow trip through the Tropics had greatly improved his condi- 

 tion, he had to remain at home for several weeks to recuperate. He 

 started on his third and last expedition in December 1898, taking with 

 him Messrs. Peterson and Barnum Brown, of the American Museum. 



As curator of the geological museum, I had secured Dr. A. E. Ort- 

 mann, a young German who had already done such distinguished work, 

 that he was made one of the collaborators in Bronn's Klassen unci 

 Ordnungen, etc. So long as he remained with us, he was an admirable 

 and indefatigable investigator, but he was much too large a man to 

 remain in the subordinate position, which was all that we could ofler 

 him at that time. 



Having gone to BrookUne for the Christmas vacation, Mrs. Scott 

 and I were summoned home by my dear Mother's illness; she died on 

 January 4 and once again I had a great sorrow to bear. On January 18 

 I wrote: "I have to chronicle another day of failure, I simply cannot 

 work; try as I may, it seems impossible for me to accomplish anything 

 but the merest routine duties. You must not think of me as wrapped 

 in gloom, but I am stunned and cannot yet adjust myself to the new 

 and radically different conditions of life. I am, however, beginning to 

 sleep better, though distressful dreams do continue, in which the whole 

 dreadful battle of suspense and despair has to be fought through again. 

 . . . 'The only real misfortune is the death of those we love'." 



Hatcher and Peterson returned from their last Patagonian expedition 

 in August 1899 and, very shortly after that, they accepted positions in 

 the new Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, which was another stunning 

 blow to me. My lack of resources had once again made itself very pain- 

 fully felt. Before he left Princeton, Hatcher made a suggestion that 

 bore magnificent fruit. The expeditions had brought back immense 

 collections, not only of fossil mammals but also invertebrates in great 

 abundance. In addition, botany and nearly all branches of recent zoology 

 were well represented. The next problem was to find a medium of pub- 

 lication for all this mass of material, much of it new to science. Hatcher's 

 suggestion was that we should attempt to raise a fund to publish the 

 whole in a series of uniform reports, instead of scattering it through 

 the various journals and the transactions of learned societies. 



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