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position iie retained up to the time of his death in 

 191 8. Derby remained permanently as director of Derby 

 the Museo Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, where he 

 died in 1916. Hartt used to say that he had made 

 at least one great discovery in going to Brazil, and 

 that was Derby! 



Wilder's special interest concerned the comparative wuder 

 anatomy of nerve structures. Very methodical, 

 though at the same time original, even unique, — 

 sometimes to the verge of eccentricity, — ■ he was 

 strongly opposed to competitive athletics, to political 

 partisanship, and above all to the use of tobacco 

 and alcohol. He was an excellent lecturer, admirably 

 clear and absolutely fearless, and my training with 

 him was most valuable. Our relation ripened into a 

 lifelong friendship. 



Dr. Charles A. Schaeffer, professor of Chemistry, Schaef^ 

 was an excellent teacher and well liked by his students 

 in spite of a strong personal resemblance (no doubt 

 cultivated) to Napoleon III, whom we cordially 

 detested! For with most other Americans of that 

 day, we glorified Bismarck and regarded Napoleon 

 as a tyrannical usurper. Larger knowledge, in- 

 cluding the former's revelation of his shameless 

 Ems telegram, has since shifted our point of view. 

 And the initiation of the Great War seems now but 

 a natural aftermath of Bismarck's policy of ''blood 

 and iron." Schaeffer afterward became university 

 dean, a position in which he was generally popular 

 but which he resigned to accept the presidency of 

 Iowa University. 



Another scholarly teacher whose classes I enjoyed Crane 

 was T. Frederick Crane, instructor in Romanic 

 Languages, from whom I acquired a reading knowl- 



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