SUSANNA PHELPS GAGE 11 
From her own standpoint, no pains were too great to make 
sure that the interpretation she had made of structure or of 
ideal plan of structure and relationship were the true ones. As 
with all investigators endowed with the divine gift of imagina- 
tion, some of the cherished images had to be broken when the 
facts discovered on fuller study showed that they were false, 
but never was an iconoclast more merciless than she when once 
convinced that the images were false. Furthermore, her work 
won her the respect of her fellow investigators in her own and 
in other countries. She was welcomed in all biological labora- 
tories and given every facility. No single laboratory can hope 
to be adequately equipped in embryologic and anatomic series 
of all forms and stages and prepared by all the standard methods; 
hence the need of making use of the facilities of many labora- 
tories to gain the broadest view on some fundamental questions. 
Fortunately there is the spirit of helpfulness in the laboratories, 
and any worthy worker is given the needed facilities without 
stint. She was freely accorded such facilities. Most often she 
used the rich collections of Dr. Minot at the Harvard Medical 
School, and of Dr. Mall at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.’ 
Indeed, one of her most important papers was based on a three 
weeks embryo loaned to her for more than a year by Dr. Mall. 
In 1911 it became possible for her to carry out a long hoped- 
for visit to Europe to see the places where history had been 
made, to enjoy the art, and most of all, to see some of the lab- 
oratories from which have originated so much of the funda- 
mental work in modern science. Fortunately the meeting of 
the Anatomische Gesellschaft was held soon after her arrival in 
Leipzig and the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science a few months later. These meetings gave her a chance 
to see with her own eyes the methods and work of two of the 
great foreign societies, and to compare them with those of the 
societies of her own country with which she was so familiar.' 
She became a member of the German Anatomical Society; and 
1 Mrs. Gage was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, a member of the American Anatomical Association, the American So- 
ciety of Zoologists, the American Microscopical Society and the Anatomische 
Gesellschaft. 
