from the Phosphorites de Quercy, in the south of France. These col- 

 lections and those which we have obtained by exchange have given 

 our museum a very useful series of European mammals. 



I returned to Heidelberg by way of Metz and Trier, where I had a 

 most delightful visit in examining the Roman antiquities. I had 

 time to walk several miles up the river to Igel and inspect a unique 

 Roman monument there, a four-sided columnar structure of a ruddy 

 sandstone, surmounted by an eagle. The especially interesting thing 

 about the monument was the series of carvings in relief, which dis- 

 played scenes from the life of a cloth-maker, the whole in wonderful 

 preservation. 



Shortly after my restoration to the bosom of my family, my second 

 daughter, Mary Blanchard, was born (September i). She has often 

 wished that she might have postponed her arrival in this sublunary 

 sphere until her parents' return to America. Her German nativity was 

 an embarrassment during the World War, when she was an army 

 nurse. The month of September was, thus, an enforced vacation, for 

 there was but little material for my studies, within easy reach, except 

 at Darmstadt. I made several visits to the museum there at the invita- 

 tion of Dr. Lepsius, and utilised the opportunity to see the great Hol- 

 bein Madonna, of which the one at Dresden is a copy, and the beautiful 

 Rembrandts. Most of the time, however, I spent in the study of Trier, 

 its history and antiquities. Chiefly for my own amusement, though not 

 entirely without mercenary motives, I put together an article on the 

 ancient town and assembled photographs and drawings to illustrate it. 

 To anticipate, I may say that the article, which I called "A German 

 Rome," was published in Scribner's Magazine in 1889. 



We went down the Rhine to Rotterdam, on a Dutch steamboat, 

 a most uncomfortable journey of three days, for the boat tied up every 

 night. We sailed from Antwerp on October 5, reaching New York 

 after an entirely uneventful voyage. Among the letters which awaited 

 me was one inviting me to take part in founding the Geological Society 

 of America, but I was too late and thus missed the chance of being 

 one of the charter members of the Society. 



Shortly after my return, I was walking with Professor Mildner, of 

 the German department, who, though born and educated in Prussia, 

 was a loyal and patriotic American and was much loved in Princeton. 

 We were talking about the important events which had been happen- 

 ing in such rapid succession in Germany, especially the accession of 

 the Emperor WiUiam II and the prospects for his reign. Mildner said: 



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