having pretty well lost hope of explaining Evolution, he did not, in the 

 least, doubt the truth of the theory as a fact. To this day, I encounter 

 people who triumphantly bring up Bateson's addresses as a proof that 

 belief in the theory is dying out among zoologists. 



I was much grieved by the death of J. B. Hatcher, who had been 

 closely associated with me for seven years and was a unique figure in 

 American palaeontology. One of the greatest of collectors, whose original 

 and ingenious methods raised the obtaining of fossil vertebrates to a fine 

 art, he was much more than that and was already one of the foremost 

 of our palaeontologists. He was a thoroughly educated man, a graduate 

 of Yale and gifted with a remarkable English style. His Narrative and 

 Geography, which form Volume I of the Patagonian Reports, are so 

 admirably written, that President Bowman has urged me to get out a 

 cheap edition of the Narrative. As Dr. Dall said, in reviewing this work 

 for Science, it "is far too good to be buried in a quarto." It has been 

 compared, for readibility and charm, to Darwin's famous Voyage of a 

 Naturalist. 



Dr. W. J. Sinclair, who had been a pupil of Merriam's at the Univer- 

 sity of California, was appointed to the Class of 1877 Fellowship in the 

 autumn of 1904 and has remained with us ever since. It is impossible to 

 do justice to the importance of his work in vertebrate palaeontology; he 

 had many successful collecting trips, accomplished wonders in the 

 museum and established the "Scott Fund," which ensures the continu- 

 ance of the work with which Princeton has been so long identified. To 

 me he ever was a loyal and devoted friend until his early death in 1935. 



In the spring of 1905 the E. K, Kane gold medal of the Geographical 

 Society of Philadelphia was conferred on me, which, while it pleased 

 me greatly as a recognition of Princeton's work, gave me little personal 

 gratification, for I felt that it would have been more suitably given to 

 Hatcher or Peterson. The award was publicly bestowed at a meeting 

 of the Geographical Society in Philadelphia and, in returning thanks 

 for the signal honour, I told an anecdote which I had read a short time 

 before. It was said of King George IV that, near the end of his life, he 

 became convinced that he had, in person, commanded the British troops 

 at Waterloo. I feared that, if people kept on assuring me that I had 

 travelled extensively in Patagonia, I should finally come to believe it 

 myself. 



Mr. Wilson had announced his plan for the preceptorial system, an 

 announcement which was enthusiastically received by Princetonians and 

 by the public at large. The Trustees adopted the plan and voted that it 



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