PREFATORY NOTE S.5 



not give and too much contact with 

 society sometimes takes away. 



Big men are usually of simple, direct 

 sincerity of character. These marks are 

 found in Burbank, sweet, straightfor- 

 ward, unspoiled as a child, devoted to 

 truth, never turning aside to seek fame 

 or money or other personal reward. If 

 his place be outside the great temple of 

 science, not many of the rest of us will 

 be found fit to enter. 



DAVID STARR JORDAN. 



Stanford University, California 

 July 5, 1921 



