BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xlv 
Hole, involving the representation of every branch of biological 
knowledge, so as to bring the combined forces to bear on the 
fundamental problems of biology. It was possible in Chicago to 
proceed along such ideal lines, for the institution was unhampered 
by history or tradition or by fixed location of departments estab- 
lished in remote neighborhoods. 
The department of zoology under Whitman was primarily a 
research department and the members of his staff were selected 
primarily for their standing as investigators. Whitman, him- 
self, taught graduate students exclusively, for the most part 
candidates for the doctor’s degree. He lectured but once a week 
and not always regularly; but each lecture was a finished essay, 
and in a way, a piece of original work. He never attempted to 
present what students could find in books. He consulted about 
once a week with each student on his research problem, and was 
a very rigorous and strict critic, but he tended more and more as 
time went on to let each student work out his own salvation. It 
often became necessary for the student to seek him at his house 
for consultation about his work, but such a consultation was 
always well worth while, as Whitman would leave his own work 
and play the part of host most delightfully, as well as that of 
teacher. 
The details of departmental administration were very irksome 
to Whitman, but on the fundamental principles of administra- 
tion of the department he was firm as a rock and quite uncom- 
promising. Even trifling details would often seem to him con- 
trary to correct ideals, and then the matters of administration 
loomed large and were rigorously decided. : 
Whitman’s students who took the degree of Doctor of Philos- 
ophy under his instruction, with their present academic standing, 
were the following: 
1. At Clark University: 
HERMON Carey Bumpvus, Business Manager, University of Wisconsin. 
Wiuu1am Morton WHEELER, Professor of Entomology, Bussey Institution, 
Harvard University. 
EpwIn Oakes JorDAN, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Chicago. 
