BERT HEALD BAILEY, M. S., M. D. 



MAY 2, 1875 JUNE 22, 1917. 



Bert Heald Bailey was born in Farley, Iowa, May 2, 1875, his 

 parents being the Rev. Turner S. Bailey and Helen Gee Bailey. At 

 the age of twelve he came with his parents to live in Cedar Rapids, 

 Iowa, where he attended the public schools, Coe Academy, and later 

 was graduated from Coe College. In 1900 he was graduated from 

 Rush Medical College, and in the same year received the degree of 

 Master of Science from Coe College, his thesis being in the field of 

 Bacteriology. It was Dr. Bailey's great ambition to enter the med- 

 ical work of Foreign Missions, but at this time it was found that a 

 heart lesion made foreign service impossible, whereupon he assumed 

 the chair of Zoology in Coe College. To his Alma Mater he came 

 with the same enthusiasm and in the same spirit which would have 

 taken him across the seas, and though doing the things which lay 

 close at hand he was still a world citizen, sending others on the jour- 

 ney he had himself hoped to make. 



Through intimate first-hand knowledge of the sciences he taught, 

 and a rare sympathetic understanding of his students, ' Dr. Bailey 

 was a truly great teacher. While giving his especial attention to 

 those looking forward to medicine; he was the friend of all, kind, 

 genial, never too busy to advise and encourage those who were per- 

 plexed or disheartened. Hunters, woodsmen, and small boys de- 

 lighted to gather specimens and data for him and freely came to 

 him in turn for help and information. Scientists throughout the 

 country admired the man and respected his work. 



The Museum which Dr. Bailey built up in Coe College is a last- 

 ing expression of his wide interests, skill and tireless energy. -Al- 

 though burdened by the many duties which fall to an executive col- 

 lege professor, Dr. Bailey found time to build an educational mu- 

 seum which ranks among the first of the college museums of the 

 United States. To the unorganized though valuable nucleus he 

 found in the college, Dr. Bailey added his own boyhood collection of 

 bird's eggs and skins, and set himself the task of interesting every- 

 one he met in his plan to develop a museum which should afford 

 adequate teaching material for the natural sciences. For years 

 every specimen was prepared by his own hands or by students under 



