whereupon we all obediently went into the house. Two years before, 

 Dr. Glover had scolded me for sleeping with open windows. 



I left London on Wednesday and, going by the Flushing-Queensboro 

 route, reached Heidelberg at 11.40 p. m. after twenty-seven hours of 

 travel, finding the two dear Frauleins Lang waiting up to give me a 

 hearty welcome. Almost immediately came the news of the shooting 

 of President Garfield, which caused great excitement in Europe. For 

 many weeks there was alternation of hope and fear and the end did 

 not come until after I had returned home in September. This crime was 

 the occasion for the display of characteristically German modes of 

 thought on the part of the university librarian. I had come into con- 

 tact with him so often, that we were quite chummy and I could venture 

 to differ with him despite the awful authority of his position. He was 

 convinced that the assassination was the outcome of a widely ramify- 

 ing political conspiracy, which threatened the very foundations of our 

 government. Nothing that I could say would shake that belief; he 

 knew much more about it than I did. It was a typical instance of wish- 

 ful thinking; he wanted it to be so and therefore it must be so. 

 Treitschke's oft expressed conviction that the American Republic had 

 but a short time to live, was generally accepted in academic circles. 



I found Gegenbaur recovering from a long and desperate illness, in 

 which his life had been despaired of. For several days after my arrival, 

 I was not permitted to see him and when, at last, I was allowed to enter 

 the house, I was agreeably surprised to see so little change in him. He 

 told me that almost all his organs had been affected, adding, with a 

 laugh, "but I'm tough and I am getting well fast." 



My letters were filled with complaints of the hot weather; the ther- 

 mometer was above 90° for many days and once, at least, rose to 99°, 

 but the laboratory was relatively cool and my work went along at a 

 very favourable rate. I was joined there by Max Fiirbringer, professor 

 at Amsterdam and a very distinguished anatomist. He became Gegen- 

 baur 's successor at Heidelberg. Fiirbringer was a clever and amusing 

 chap, full of fun and good stories, so that I greatly enjoyed his com- 

 panionship. I last saw him in 1903. 



Gegenbaur 's long illness caused me considerable embarrassment in 

 the summer of '81. My dissertation had been printed in the Morpholo- 

 gisches Jahrbuch, of which Gegenbaur was the editor. It was the duty 

 of the publisher, Engelmann in Leipsic, to get out a separate edition 

 of the paper, with its own paging and with title-page setting forth its 

 character as a dissertation for the Ph.D. degree at the University of 



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