Portland Canal, but I feared a time of recrimination, should the award 

 go against us. Mr. Garrett told me not to worry, for the English arbi- 

 trator was going to side with us, as proved to be true. 



A very brief personal conference sufficed to remove all the difficulties 

 in which the hthographers had been enmeshed; we spent the night at 

 Frankfort, in order to hear Mozart's Magic Flute, which was delight- 

 fully rendered, reaching Heidelberg the next day. There we had a heart- 

 warming welcome from our old friends. At Stuttgart, we encountered 

 Eberhard Fraas, who had been a guest in my house two years before; 

 his satirical description of the organisation of society in the Wiirtemberg 

 capital was most amusing and sounded Hke Versailles in the eighteenth 

 century. 



At Munich, we could see only Schlosser, who was in great distress 

 over the accident that had just befallen von Zittel. The famous palaeon- 

 tologist had been knocked down in the street and received injuries 

 from which he afterwards died. At the time of our visit, however, his 

 life was not despaired of. We took the midnight express for Rome. 

 At Rome we put up at a pension kept by a very interesting and culti- 

 vated Frenchwoman, to whom we had been recommended. She was 

 extremely kind to us and especially so to me, for I was miserable with 

 a heavy cold and she coddled me, as though I were her son. 



After an all too short stay in Naples, we sailed for Boston by the 

 Dominion liner Vancouver and had a very uncomfortably crowded 

 passage. After a stop at Ponta Delgada, in the Azores, we landed at 

 Boston, having had a most memorable and delightful tour. 



During my absence, my lectures had been taken by Mr, Gilbert van 

 Ingen, who had succeeded Dr. Ortmann when the latter went to the 

 Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. We had not yet discovered it, but van 

 Ingen's coming opened a new epoch in the Department of Geology, 

 for he was a most stimulating and successful teacher, especially in the 

 laboratory and the field, where his students became very much attached 

 to him. He trained many promising young geologists in a way that 

 I had never been able to do. 



In 1903, I was elected one of the vice-presidents of the American 

 Philosophical Society, of which I had been a member since 1886. 



In July 1904, I attended the International Zoological Congress at 

 Bern, going by way of Heidelberg. The Congress, so far as I can re- 

 member, was a rather routine affair, with nothing about it of outstand- 

 ing importance. From Bern, I went directly to Cambridge for the 

 meeting of the British Association and lived in Magdalen College, as the 



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