ican science in general. He never could have done here the work which 

 he accomplished there, since only in New York could he have had 

 such immense sums of money at his disposal. He made the American 

 Museum one of the greatest and, in some respects, the very greatest 

 museum in the world, created the Bronx Zoological Garden and greatly 

 developed the Castle Garden Aquarium. His expeditions made collec- 

 tions all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as in 

 Patagonia, India, China, MongoHa and Egypt, while the immense body 

 of his publications made him one of the most distinguished and widely 

 known figures in the whole history of American science. Needless to 

 say, Osborn's removal to New York caused no diminution of our friend- 

 ship. The dedication of a book, which I published in 1913, to Osborn 

 and Speir "in token of forty years' unclouded friendship," remains as 

 true as ever, though both Harry and Frank have gone and dedications 

 can no longer reach them. 



In my account of the expedition of 1893, I mentioned a very brief 

 visit to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago on the way out, and I 

 made a much longer stay on the homeward journey. In the meantime, 

 my Wife and Mother had journeyed to Chicago to meet my Brother, 

 H. Lenox, who had been ordered there from Fort Sill, Okla. It has 

 been my constant misfortune that nearly all my travelling has been done 

 alone. Most of my travelling has been done at other people's expense 

 and has had, therefore, to be managed with the most careful economy. 



Of my first visit I wrote : "I took a trip in an electric launch through 

 the lagoons and, in this way, saw all the principal buildings from the 

 best points of view and in the most advantageous grouping. It was 

 overwhelming! No descriptions, no pictures can prepare you for the 

 amazing result. The lavish use of sculpture gives the most delightful 

 skylines imaginable and the lagoons, with their reflections, add the 

 most charming effects. Never was there such a sight on earth and it is 

 a continual grief to think that these, cloud-capped towers, these gorgeous 

 palaces, are so soon to vanish." 



So far as I am aware, there was among visitors, American or foreign, 

 no dissent from the opinion that the great "Court of Honour," with 

 its enclosing buildings, its fountains and statues, its colonnades and the 

 shoreless, blue lake as a background, was the most marvellously beau- 

 tiful spectacle of our day and generation. From the Centennial at 

 Philadelphia, in 1876, to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago was only 

 seventeen years, and I doubt if such progress in architecture and the 

 allied arts was ever before registered in so short a time; it was incred- 



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