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ningham, in an extensive and far-reaching investigation for the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries on our marine diatoms, and had he been spared 

 to finish this it would have been the. authoritative monograph on 

 these plants in our waters. 



"As a teacher, Professor Wolfe was one of the most successful 

 instructors in his subject in North Carolina. Under him the depart- 

 ment of Biology in Trinity College grew steadily in numbers of stu- 

 dents and in influence, and at the time of his death he had plans on 

 foot for a very great enlargement and development of his depart- 

 ment. 



"In the North Carohna Academy of Science, Professor Wolfe 

 was one of the most influential and valuable members. Never ab- 

 sent from a meeting, he could always be counted on for any needed 

 work. During my eleven years' incumbency as Secretary I called 

 on him scores of times for advice and help, and it was always his 

 pleasure, and, as he put it, his 'privilege,' to serve the Academy. 

 This ready devotion of his was appreciated by all the members, and 

 was signalized in 1914 by his unanimous election to the office of 

 President. 



"Professor Wolfe's life was as square and straightforward and 

 honest as was his scientific work. I who knew him intimately knew 

 him always four-square to the world. Generous and whole-souled 

 himself, he always looked for these qualities in others. He was one 

 of the most delightful hosts I have ever known, and no one ever 

 visited him and Mrs. Wolfe in their delightful home at Trinity Col- 

 lege without bringing away recollections of the very finest hospitality. 

 He was a man of the most genial and lovable personality. 



"Of what Professor Wolfe's death has meant to me personally it 

 is hard for me to speak. For more than ten years I have had in him 

 an intimate friend on whom I could rely to the limit, and his going 

 has made the world much poorer for me." 



This impression of fine-souled solidity of character was shared 

 by all who knew him. A co-worker with Dr. Wolfe along certain 

 lines, who saw him often and was able to judge him fairly, is Dr. W. 

 C. Coker, head of the Department of Botany in the University of 

 North Carohna, who bears this testimony: 



"I have been asked to give my impression of Dr. Wolfe as a 

 man, as an investigator and as a member of the North Carolina 

 Academy of Science. 



"It is significant that as I recall him as a man and as a friend 

 my thoughts have no element of uncertainty or complexity, but rest 

 quietly as though carried on a tranquil stream. Wolfe was a simple 

 man, as all good men are, or rather one might say the impression 

 was that of simplicity, and always the same. It could not be other- 

 wise with one who so fully combined the few great and essential 

 qualities of goodness, to which little need be added, and without 



