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pupils was such as a mother toward her son.”’ Professor Ishikawa 
writes in a similar spirit throughout. He says, ‘“‘On receiving 
the tidings of Professor Whitman’s death I am very much sur- 
prised and bitterly mourned.”’ ‘‘I mourned bitterly in the recol- 
lection that those delightful days we had together shall never 
again be realized, but have now become a memory.”’ ‘‘The work 
he has done during his life still remains and will be remembered 
forever.”’ Takashahi says, ‘‘As he was the teacher of our pro- 
fessors, he will be justly regarded as our father of zoology in Japan. 
I feel as if I had lost my grandfather because of his being the 
teacher of our professors and because of his cherished kindness 
shown to me as a father might have shown to his son during my 
stay in his laboratory in the University of Chicago.” 
The following incident, as related by Professor Iwakawa and 
translated by a Japanese friend, is worth quoting: 
For the purpose of making bird specimens for the museum, the Uni- 
versity secured two government licenses in hunting seasons and the 
licenses were handed to the Zoological Department for the use of the 
students. 
To make the specimens was one of purposes of hunting and the 
other end seemed to eat flesh of birds. One Saturday, a number of 
pigeons was brought to our laboratory and the next day being Sunday, 
some of us came to the laboratory to have the share of feast. Dr. 
Iijima dissected the birds. <A fire shovel was cleansed and put lard on 
and then flesh; then put into the stove to fry. Salt, sauce, knife and 
fork were ready and the party waited to have the flesh cooked. Dr. 
Sasaki had belatedly come. Being he was an hearty eater, the party 
who were already there refused to add him into the company and so all 
went to Dr. Whitman’s office and locked the door from inside so that he 
could not get in. Unexpectedly Dr. Whitman came, in spite of that 
the day was Sunday. He put his slippers on as usual and tried to get 
in his office by the door he used to enter. To his surprise the door was 
locked. He came over to our laboratory and there Dr. Sasaki sat alone. 
Professor Whitman tried to open the door that leads to his office from 
our laboratory. Again to his surprise the door was also locked. Dr. 
Sasaki being left very much uneasy, called out, ‘Professor Whitman 
has come!’ The party inside the door, including Dr. Iijima, believing 
that Professor Whitman would never come on Sunday and that the 
warning might be Dr. Sasaki’s stratagem to induce the party to open 
the door, took the alarm easy and were chattering over quite noisily. 
Then there was heard a voice from outside, ‘Who are in the room?’ 
Evidently that was Whitman’s. Frightened all at once the party fled 
