1896] Supreme Court Decision 



tion, trustee of the Agassiz Association, 1 a director of the 

 Boy Scouts, and in other positions of like character, some 

 active, some partly honorary. 



Abroad, I have been elected vice-president of the Eugenics 

 Education Society of London, vice-president of the British 

 National Association for Public Welfare, member of the Cobden 

 Club, and dean of the American section of the World Peace 

 Congress at The Hague in 1913. In addition, I belong to the 

 French Federation des Abolitionistes, and Bureau des Na- 

 tionalites, the Fiskerei Verein of Norway, the Swiss Alpenclub, 

 and the Norwegian Alpenforening; and since 1904, by elec- 

 tion of the World Congress of Zoology at Cambridge, England, 

 I have also been a member of the International Commission 

 of Zoological Nomenclature. 



On March 2, 1896, Stanford University re- 

 ceived news of the favorable decision of the United 

 States Supreme Court. All work was at once 

 suspended; and the students, pouring out of the 

 classrooms, proceeded to celebrate with the utmost 

 enthusiasm. Unfortunately Mrs. Jordan and I had 

 gone to San Francisco and so were for the time being 

 out of reach. Nevertheless, the impatient young 

 people surged over at intervals to the house, vo- 

 ciferating the Stanford yell. It was then that Loro Loro 

 Bonito, taking the air on a big live oak, listened Bo** 



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with both his yellow ears, and between times dm- Stanford 

 gently essayed the "Rah, rah, rah" slogan until "y fl1 " 

 practice made perfect. Arrived at the Palo Alto 

 station after darkness had fallen, my wife and I 

 faced an uproarious delegation made up of the whole 

 Student Body. The horses now being detached 



1 In the work of this society founded and directed by Edward F. Bigelow, 

 I have long been interested. Its purpose is the promotion of nature study 

 among boys and girls. In 1911, I visited Bigelow at his center of operations, 

 "Arcadia," Sound Beach, Connecticut. In California, excellent work along 

 similar lines is carried on by C. M. Goethe of Sacramento, whose series of 

 leaflets on bird ways has been effective in rousing and sustaining interest. 



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