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he was associated particularly with Kingo Miyabe and W. C. 

 Sturgis. Both of them were more advanced in their studies than 

 he, but they worked with him sympathetically. Among his fel- 

 low students in Mark's laboratory were G. H. Parker, H. H. 

 Field, C. B. Davenport, H. B. Ward, C. H. Eigenmann, and C. 

 W. Woodworth. These friends, together with advanced students 

 in other fields — including John Manley and E. B. Delabarre — 

 formed a most stimulating group. Besides their attachment to 

 the natural sciences, they shared an enthusiasm for literature, 

 painting, and music. They attended concerts and lectures, and 

 visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and their discussions 

 in the laboratory were not restricted to scientific topics. The re- 

 finement of Professor Setchell's taste, the breadth and quality of 

 his literary background, and his interest in and knowledge of the 

 fine arts are referable, in part at least, to these Harvard experi- 

 ences superimposed upon his early training in the classics. 



During the two years following, at Cambridge, Professor 

 Setchell served as an assistant in biology and held a proctorship. 

 As proctor, he had to do with matters of discipline in the college 

 dormitories and with the conduct of examinations. At the be- 

 ginning of the second year he was granted the degree of Master 

 of Arts, the only requirements for which were to request its 

 conferment and to submit evidence of a proper record in course 

 work. Since the assistantship permitted him only half-time for 

 his graduate studies, he found it necessary to give up the re- 

 search in zoology which he had begun under Mark and to give 

 himself exclusively to the thesis topic under Farlow. The prob- 

 lem decided upon for the thesis concerned the morphology and 

 development of Saccoriza dermatodea, a characteristic kelp of 

 the northern New England coasts. In the meantime, a certain 

 small group of fungi, the Doassansia group, had aroused in him 



