The Days of a Man nigsi 



Conspicu- years of research in California, being then (1891) called back 

 ous to the university as professor of Zoology. Ultimately, as a 



under- result of many expeditions to South America, largely in con- 

 ^Td^\' nection with the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, he came to 

 be the highest authority on the river fish fauna of the whole 

 southern continent. 



Conspicuous also among our zoological students was Barton 

 W. Evermann,* who followed Eigenmann, his classmate, as in- 

 structor in charge of my laboratory. Evermann went after- 

 wards as professor of Zoology to the State Normal School at 

 Terre Haute, and served still later, for many years, as zo- 

 ological expert of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. The 

 latter position he held until 1913, publishing meanwhile nu- 

 merous papers and being associated with me in the authorship 

 of several books, the most important of which is "The Fishes 

 of North and Middle America," in four volumes.^ Upon leav- 

 ing the Bureau of Fisheries, he became curator of the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, an office he has successfully filled, 

 a superb series of landscape groups of animals in their natural 

 environment, completed by him, being the most striking feature 

 of the Academy Museum. 



Two other members of the same class, Charles L. Edwards 

 and Jerome F. McNeill, were also special students of mine. 

 Edwards became a well-known naturalist, and after having 

 served as professor in Eastern institutions, he some years ago 

 took charge of science teaching in the schools of Los Angeles. 

 McNeill afterward devoted himself to Entomology. 



Another youth who promised to reach the front rank in 

 Zoology was Charles H. Bollman, a native of Bloomington, 

 who devoted himself with remarkable energy and persistence 

 to the study of fishes and insects. In company with Bert 

 Fesler, a fellow student of whom I shall subsequently speak, he 

 undertook in 1887 an exploration of the Okefinokee Swamp in 

 southern Georgia. There he was attacked by malarial fever, 

 from which he died, to the distinct loss of American science. 

 His admirable papers on insects were afterward reprinted as 

 a special volume by the Smithsonian. Still another gifted 

 young naturalist, of varied interests but brief career, was 



^ See Chapter vii, page 169. * See Chapter xxi, page 524. 



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