Vlll OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 



senting to him an oil portrait of himself together with a congratu- 

 latory address, and at the end of his book on the " Foundations of 

 Zoology," he added on this date, the following note : 



"For you who have, at this time, for my encouragement, called your- 

 selves my students, I have written this book which has been my own so 

 long that I should part with it with regret, did I not hope that, as you study 

 the great works to which I have directed you, you may still call me teacher. 

 . . . If you are indeed my students, you are not afraid of hard work, so 

 in this day of light literature, w^hen even learning must be made easy, you 

 must be my readers, and you must do double duty ; for I take the liberty 

 of a teacher with his pupils, and ask that, after you have read the book, you 

 will some day read it again ; since I hope that what may seem obscure, may, 

 on review, be found consistent and intelligible." 



David Starr Jordan review this book in Science under the 

 caption " A sage in biology." Whatever one may be inclined to 

 say of his conclusions and theories, it cannot be denied that in an 

 age when biological investigators have been content with discovering 

 phenomena, he has attempted to go back of phenomena to their 

 real meaning and significance and to point out the relationship of 

 these newly discovered phenomena to the great current of philoso- 

 phy which has flowed down to us from the remote past. 



In his philosophical writing he was most deeply influenced by 

 Aristotle, Berkeley and Huxley. Much that he has written still 

 seems to me obscure, although I have read it more than once, but I 

 bear in mind his parting request, and in the lueantime profit by that 

 which I do understand and am charmed by the classical and almost 

 poetical diction in which it is written. 



His abilities received early and generous recognition. Apart 

 from his university advancement he received many honors. He 

 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Williams College in 

 1893, from Hobart College in 1899, and from the University of 

 Pennsylvania at the Franklin Bicentennary in 1906. In 1884, at 

 the age of thirty-six, he was elected a member of the National 

 Academy of Sciences ; he was chosen a member of the American 

 Philosophical Society in 1886; of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia in 1887; he was also a member of the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural Flistory, the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, of the Maryland Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of 





