524 Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. 



of pushing a given research through rapidly enabled him to 

 cover a great deal of ground with surprising fidelity to the facts 

 of his material. But the method results in a positive hardsliip 

 to his readers, since the matter was not fully digested and cor- 

 related before publication. While, therefore, this matter is of 

 great value, it is hard to read and will not be used fully save by 

 a few specialists until it is worked over and correlated within 

 itself and with other more recent work. It is hoped that this 

 ma}' be done soon. The facts as stated must necessarily serve 

 as the basis for any future work on the types which he studied. 



After his departure for New Mexico a few brief neurolog- 

 ical articles were published, but only fragments remaining from 

 his earlier work or critical articles. This period was devoted 

 chiefly to geology and other studies which could be pursued 

 out-of-doors, and more recently to philosophical writing. 



In 1892 he contributed a short paper to the Leuckart 

 Festschrift. In 1893 he wrote four articles for the supplement 

 to Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences. He 

 also wrote a few articles for the second edition of the Hand- 

 book, beginning in 1900. In conjunction with C. Judson 

 Herrick, he prepared the neurological articles for the Bald- 

 win Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, some of these 

 being encyclopedic articles of considerable length. 



The best years of his life were devoted to his neurological 

 work and it is all of a high order of merit, yet one feels that in 

 very little of it did he do himself justice. His impetuous tem- 

 perament and phenomenal ability to turn off research rapidly is 

 partly responsible for this ; but its unsatisfactory character is 

 largely due to the fact that it was cut off prematurely. He 

 never had the patience to polish his work as some like to see it 

 done, and it would have been much more accessible if he had 

 put even the unfinished reports of progress into more syste- 

 matic form. Yet, even as it is, the aggregate is a monumental 

 work to stand as the out-put of only about half a decade of 

 productive work. 



Of his work in New Mexico one who had first-hand 

 knowledge writes as follows : 



