The Days of a Man 



1892 



After Thoburn's death in 1899, he jointly conducted with me 

 the lecture course in Bionomics, in which subject he showed 

 admirable accuracy and discrimination. Meanwhile we wrote 

 together two textbooks which have had a wide sale, "Animal 

 Life" (1900) and "Evolution and Animal Life" (1907), the 

 latter embodying the substance of our lectures on those topics. 



In "Animal Life" we attempted to put in clear form, for 

 students' use, not merely a set of zoological facts, but also the 

 most important general laws governing organic development. 

 Thus for the first time in a school text the principles of evolu- 

 tion were brought into relation with the facts of biology. In 

 both volumes, moreover, we abandoned conventional wood- 

 cuts for fresh photographs reproduced as halftones, a feature 

 followed by most subsequent authors on the same subject. 

 A varied Among Kellogg's later publications I may especially men- 



career tion several books on very different subjects, each most ad- 

 mirable of its kind: "Darwinism Today," "In and Out of 

 Florence," 1 "Headquarters Nights," a study of the mentality 

 of the German war caste, "Beyond War," "Insect Stories," 

 "The Food Problem" (with Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor), and 

 "Nuova, the New Bee." 



Soon after the outbreak of war, Kellogg went to Europe as 

 Hoover's associate on the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 

 first taking charge in occupied France and afterward serving 

 as director, with headquarters at Brussels, of work in both 

 Belgium and France. 



At all times, however, much of what we may call the "diplo- 

 matic" side of general relief fell on his shoulders; in this con- 

 nection he visited Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, Rome, Vienna, The 

 Hague, and Le Havre, this last the temporary seat of the 

 Belgian Government. For such service he possessed special 

 fitness because of his unquestioned scientific standing abroad 

 and his intimate acquaintance with German thought and life 

 early gained by study and travel in Germany added to 

 a sympathetic knowledge of both Italy and France. 



In 1919 the American Relief Administration made good use 

 of his general ability and adaptability in missions to Poland 

 and Germany; as head of Hoover's first food mission to Poland 

 he made the primary arrangements which led to the provision- 



Published under the pseudonym of "Max Vernon." 



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