20 Naturalist at Large 



Bigelow and I went to Bermuda with Professor Mark to 

 open the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, an 

 organization which still exists. While in Bermuda on this 

 second trip I got word that Professor Shaler had done the 

 unprecedented and had given me a D in Geology 4. This 

 made me a dropped freshman when I returned to college, 

 and I had to report like a convict on parole to Dean George 

 H. Chase. Then I began to work at my studies. Next term 

 I was again in good standing and got good marks for the 

 rest of my undergraduate years. But when the time came 

 to take my A.B. degree I asked the registrar, Mr. George 

 Washington Cram, whether it could not be granted cum 

 laude as I had the requisite number of A's and B's. I found, 

 however, that my sins were not to be forgiven me, and I 

 got no such thing. 



I did not take my A.M. until after I had come back from 

 the East Indies, nor my Ph.D. until after I had been to 

 South America as a member of the North American dele- 

 gation to the First Pan-American Scientific Congress, held 

 at Santiago, Chile, in 1908. Professor Archibald Cary 

 Coolidge was a member of our delegation. Probably I 

 should never have met him if we had not been thrown 

 together in this way, for I took no history or economics, 

 or indeed anything, during those days of free electives, 

 except zoology, botany, and languages. Archie and his sec- 

 retary, Clarence Hay, became dear and valued friends. 



On the Santiago trip, Archie would come up to me at 

 sea with two pads and pencils and we would see how 

 quickly we could write down the names of the nineteen 

 provinces of China or the twenty-three states of Mexico, 

 or bound the province of Uganda or Togoland, or name 



