EJ)C;AR ALLEN 



in the heat at Orange Park, had taken time 

 for a long swim in the breakers at Jackson- 

 ville Beach. Miraculously he reached New 

 Haven and recovered sufficiently to return 

 to his work. Nothing would have kept him 

 from it. When war was declared in 1941 

 he was tired, but he insisted on joining the 

 Coast Guard Auxilliary for a weekly tour 

 of duty on Long Island Sound, as opera- 



tions officer of a flotilla. It was during one 

 of their patrols that he died of coronary 

 occlusion. There was much that was fitting 

 to such an end of his active life. No tribute 

 could have been more appropriate than 

 that phrased by Gardner in th(^ Edgar 

 Allen Memorial Number of the ^'ale Journal 

 of Biology and Medicine, "The 'Skipper' 

 left with 'all sails filled.' " 



