THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



destroyed by the Japanese fleet. Dr. Zort told me that he had 

 been picked up in the water by a Japanese rescuing boat and 

 had been carried to Japan, where he received the most extraor- 

 dinary courtesy. He was not only allowed to care surgically 

 for his own compatriots, but was invited professionally to attend 

 many major operations. On the transatlantic vessel at the same 

 time was Professor Fujisawa, the mathematician, whom I had 

 met in London, when he was a delegate to the Royal Society 

 function from the University of Tokio. I brought the two men 

 together, and Fujisawa countered Dr. Zort's stories concerning 

 the courtesy he received in Japan by telling us of the extraordi- 

 nary courtesy that he had received in Russia on his way across 

 country from Japan to England. 



Dr. Zort was a big man, convivial and companionable to a 

 degree. I put him up at the Cosmos Club on our arrival at 

 Washington, and one night, when I visited the Club, I found 

 him in the library, where he had found a book entitled, "The 

 Bartender's Guide," and was engaged in copying the recipes 

 for rather more than fifty different kinds of cocktails. 



The last one of these international gatherings that I have 

 attended down to the present time was the recendy completed 

 Fifth International Congress of Entomology held in Paris. But 

 this chapter is already too long, and I shall add something 

 about the Congress in the very rambling final chapter. 



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