The Days of a Man 



Amos 

 Butler 



Sorting 



the 



fishes 



William A. Millis, now president of Hanover College; James 

 W. Fesler, now president of the Indiana board of trustees; 

 Homer Dibell, now justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota; 

 Fletcher B. Dresslar, professor of Education in different uni- 

 versities, East and West; Henry Landes, my brother-in-law, 

 now and for many years professor of Geology at the State 

 University at Seattle and state geologist of Washington; 

 David K. Goss, afterward principal of a boys' school at Strass- 

 burg, where he met a tragic death; and David A. Curry, a 

 student of Greek, who followed us to Stanford, and to whose 

 later career I shall shortly refer. 



In this general connection I must mention also a young 

 naturalist whose relations to my work, though not in the labora- 

 tory, were often very close. Amos W. Butler I came to know 

 as secretary of a Natural History Society at Brookville, a 

 picturesque village where a number of young men were en- 

 thusiastically studying the animals and plants of the neigh- 

 borhood. From this interesting beginning arose the Indiana 

 Academy of Sciences, of which I was the first president. Butler 

 had earlier been a student in the university with its hard and 

 fast classical courses. But there he spent so much more time 

 on birds than on Latin that he was debarred from graduation, 

 though he later became the leading ornithologist of the state. 

 Many years afterward, during President Bryan's administra- 

 tion, he was called back to receive his degree, fairly earned 

 according to the new dispensation. More recently he has de- 

 voted himself to human biology the study of poverty, 

 misery, and crime becoming secretary of the Indiana State 

 Board of Charities. 



During the Christmas holidays of this year, I 

 went on to Washington to sort out the contents of 

 the many tanks of fishes Gilbert and I had forwarded 

 to the Smithsonian from the Pacific Coast. In this 

 matter I was ably assisted by Mr. Pierre L. Jouy. 

 After taking out a complete series for retention at 

 the Museum and one of duplicates for the Univer- 

 sity of Indiana, we divided the rest into several 

 sets which were sent to the leading museums of 



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