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"Sage in Science," as 1 termed him in a review of 

 one of his books. Once I called at his office and 

 found him tracing the anatomy of a worm. "Hello, 

 Jordan," he said cordially, and then returned to his 

 drawing as coolly as though we had last met within 

 half an hour instead of years before. That was his 

 way. Yet, notwithstanding his reticence, he was 

 really a good friend, a very interesting lecturer, and 

 a most successful teacher. 



Charles O. Whitman was older than most of the Futu. 

 rest at Penikese. There his main interest was ^^^'^^'■■f 

 Ornithology, of which he seemed to have an ex- '" 

 tensive knowledge. Afterward he rose to the front 

 in General Biology, becoming professor of Zoology 

 in the University of Chicago. The latter part of 

 his life he devoted to the breeding of birds, with a 

 view to defining more explicitly lines of heredity, 

 determination of sex, and the meaning of "unit 

 characters." Another delightful member of the 

 group was Dr. Frank H. Snow, then professor of 

 Zoology at the University of Kansas, afterward 

 head of the same institution. Snow was an excellent 

 naturalist, simple, hearty, and jocund, much beloved 

 by his students, and (even when chancellor) by his 

 associates. Charles Sedgwick Minot, bent on perfect- 

 ing himself through training in Germany, was the 

 youngest and one of the ablest of us all. As pro- 

 fessor of Physiology at Harvard he came to stand 

 unquestionably in the front rank of American men 

 of science. I remember a keen saying of his, "The 

 difference between a scientific physician and a 

 practical one is that more of the scientific patients 

 get well and more of the others die." Walter Faxon 

 of Harvard, an assiduous student of crabs and 



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