THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



appealing way, as if to say, "You're on, but don't give me away, 

 old man." 



Is it surprising that after that performance, and after seeing 

 that Wallace was greatly pleased and fully deceived, I should 

 hold very lightly the opinions of other great men who have 

 become converts? That whole performance was a very trans- 

 parent fraud. 



A few years later I became well acquainted with Colonel I. 

 Edwards Clark, a well-placed man in Washington society, who 

 was almost childishly credulous about such things, and who took 

 me to one or two seances conducted by his favorite woman 

 medium. 



In writing of Cornell University in one of the early chapters, 

 I mentioned Professor Bernard E. Fernow, then Professor of 

 Forestry, and promised to say something more about him. The 

 dear old fellow died at Toronto, Canada, in the spring of 1923, 

 at the age of seventy-four. A long article about him was pub- 

 lished in the journal Science for March 2 of that year. He was 

 a man of great culture and charm, who came to America shortly 

 after the Franco-Prussian War. His coming was a personal pro- 

 test against the militaristic policies of Germany. He had served 

 through the war, and was one of the ten thousand troops espe- 

 cially selected to enter Paris after its surrender. He married a 

 charming Brooklyn woman named Goodyear, and they raised 

 a large family of fine children. They came to Washington in 

 1886, where he organized the Forestry Service of the Department 

 of Agriculture. They lived there for twelve years, until he was 

 called to Cornell to organize the first forestry school in this 

 country. 



Fernow was prominent in scientific circles in Washington. 

 His broad culture and his fine mind made him a figure of note. 



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