THE 



SCIENTI FIC WORK 



OF 



ADAM TODD BRUCE. 

 A SKETCH 



BY 



W. K. BROOKS. 



ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MORPHOLOGY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. 



Adam Todd Bruce was born March 6th, 1860; he graduated at the University 

 of New Jersey in 1881 ; he obtained the degree of Ph. D., at the Johns Hopkins 

 University in June, 1886 ; he was appointed an Instructor in the Johns Hopkins 

 University in September, 1886, and his death took place in March, 1887. 



During the three years of my acquaintance with Dr. Bruce, the rapid develop- 

 ment of his strong character was a constant pleasure to me, but while each day 

 added strength to my belief that a most useful and distinguished career lay before 

 him as a scientific investigator, I sorrow for the loss of an affectionate friend, rather 

 than the death of a bright and promising pupil and student of nature. 



Our relation was not that of instructor and pupil, but an intimate personal 

 friendship ; to me he had brought his pleasures and successes, and his troubles and 

 perplexities, and when I received, by the first mail which reached me at the Bahama 

 Islands, the sad news of his death, I keenly felt the isolation which added intensity 

 to the loss, and cut me off from a share in the expression of affection for his memory 

 by his friends in Baltimore. 



As I was not able to attend the meeting of his friends in Baltimore, when the 

 news of his death was received, it is a great pleasure to have this opportunity to 

 speak of the value of his scientific researches, and of the great loss which science 

 has sustained by his untimely death, just as he was beginning to apply his skill 

 and his thorough training in technical methods to the solution of new problems. 



