The Days of a Man 1907 



attempts were made to supplant it by baseball, its 

 more energetic and varied American rival. I was 

 myself called on to umpire a baseball game in Sydney, 

 not a brilliant one but fairly good for a starter. 

 Track Track meets are popular, though held on cricket 

 meets and fe\fo necessarily very large batting takes place in 

 every direction so that the spectators see few of 

 the fine points. But society makes use of these occa- 

 sions by arranging elaborate tea parties in the stands 

 reserved for it. 



The museum naturalists of Australia form an inter- 

 esting and active group, the fact that the animals and 

 plants of the region are still incompletely recorded 

 adding zest to their study. Naturally I saw a good 

 deal of the ichthyologists, even though I had no time 

 Colleagues for original investigation myself. Among them are 

 t ^ iree f excellent training and ability: Allan R. 

 McCulloch, curator in the Australian Museum, a 

 man of charming personality and a careful, accurate 

 observer whose judgment in technical matters I value 

 highly; Edgar R. Waite, his esteemed co-worker, then 

 at Christchurch but soon after called to the Museum 

 at Adelaide; and J. Douglas Ogilby, the accomplished 

 curator of fishes in the Queensland Museum at Bris- 

 bane, and author of numerous papers of importance. 

 David G. Stead, the competent scientific expert of the 

 fisheries of New South Wales, is prominent as an 

 advocate of peace, with a large interest in world 

 affairs generally. In 1917, visiting the United States, 

 he came to Stanford as the guest of Gilbert and my- 

 self. In 1918 he paid us the joint compliment of 

 naming his fourth boy Gilbert Jordan Stead. His 

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