England for further study, as was made possible by the generosity of 

 Mr. Osborn. Dr. McCosh sent for me one day, I think, shortly before 

 my graduation and said: "Mr. Osborn, Sr., has taken a fancy to you 

 and writes that he would like to contribute $i,ooo toward the expenses 

 of your education in Europe." I replied: "I shall be glad to accept it, 

 Sir, especially if it can be arranged to supply the missing income of 

 my fellowship." Dr. McCosh assured me that that arrangement could 

 be made. 



Before sailing, I had a feverish week of preparation and kept flying 

 from New York to Philadelphia and back again in bewildering fashion. 

 Most important of these preliminaries was the securing of the necessary 

 letters of introduction, professional and social. Dr. Leidy, whose repu- 

 tation stood very high in Europe, gave me letters to the leading lights 

 in science of London and, of these, incomparably the most useful and 

 valuable was one to Professor Huxley. Dr. Fred Dennis, of New York, 

 gave me a letter to Dr. J. G. Glover, one of the editors of the London 

 Lancet and this introduction was of unusual importance, for Dr. and 

 Mrs. Glover received me with the utmost hospitality and kindness, and 

 their lifelong friendship I count as one of the high privileges of my 

 career. Another letter which led to very interesting and pleasant results 

 was one to Mr. John Welch, American Minister to the Court of St. 

 James's. 



To leave home and country and fare forth by myself, for uncertain 

 ends and indefinite times, was a severe wrench and as I went from 

 house to house bidding the various members of the family good-bye, 

 it seemed like preparing for my own funeral. One such scene, however, 

 was lighted up by a gleam of humour. It was at my Uncle Wistar's 

 house, where the children were having their supper, that my Uncle 

 asked: "What are you going to live on in London? You'd better marry 

 a washerwoman and let her support you." Before I could answer, one of 

 the children, a Httle maid of four, piped up with: "Oh! no. Papa, he'll 

 be a Britisher then and he can steal." The older children were having 

 American history at school and that was the sort of thing they were 

 getting out of it. 



The day before I sailed, at Osborn's suggestion, "The Triumvirate" 

 had a group photograph taken in Western costume and armed with 

 rifle and revolver. It was a very Wild Western picture, but the effect 

 was rather spoiled by our small and neatly blacked shoes, while our 

 clean-shaven faces and my smooth hair (I had no hat) gave us an ap- 

 pearance like that of the pirate, who was "as mild a mannered man as 



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