xliv CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 
ing. Whitman was then elected president for the next meeting, 
and was re-elected during. the following three meetings. In 
1902 the name of the society was changed to ‘‘The American 
Society of Zoologists’” and it is still our dominant zoological 
society. 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
We have departed from the chronological order of events in 
thus sketching Whitman’s various activities. In 1892 Whitman 
moved from Clark University to the University of Chicago, 
taking with him the major part of his department and all his 
students. Professors Mall, Donaldson and Baur also came at 
the same time from Clark University to the University of Chicago 
and took part with others in the formation of a department of 
biology of which Whitman was head. After the first year, 
however, the department was broken up into separate depart- 
ments of zoology, anatomy, neurology, physiology and palaeon- 
tology. Concerning this event Professor Mall says (The Resig- 
nation of Professor Whitman as Director of the Marine Biological 
Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., Anat. Record, vol. 2, no. 8, 
November, 1908). 
When the University of Chicago was founded in 1893, Professor Whit- 
man was made head of the biological department, which in its organiza- 
tion was unusually strong on the anatomical side. It was planned at 
the beginning to divide the department as soon as circumstances would 
warrant, and with the very rapid growth of the University this took 
place within a year. Then the anatomical department was established 
coordinate with those of zoology and botany. This proved to be the 
most important step in the organization of anatomical departments in 
America, and for it we are largely indebted to Professor Whitman. 
Whitman was in fact mainly responsible for the unusually 
comprehensive organization of the biological departments in the 
University of Chicago, and for their establishment in a single 
group of buildings, thus rendering possible a degree of mutual 
support and cooperation among the biological sciences, the full 
possibilities of which have not been realized even in Chicago up 
to this day. Whitman thus carried out in Chicago as far as 
possible the same form of organization that he planned for Woods 
