IN MEMORIAM. 



JAMES INGRAHAM PECK. 



PROFESSOR PECK died of pneumonia on Friday, Nov. 4, 1898, 

 after a brief illness. 



He had lived thirty-five years, and had accomplished so much in 

 making his character fine and strong, in serving others as a rarely 

 successful teacher, in winning results as an investigator, and in 

 brightening and encouraging the lives of many others by his faith 

 and his loyal friendship, that the sense of loss is deeply and widely 

 felt. 



He is remembered in his college days as one of the earnest men 

 who was seeking knowledge, not prizes nor marks. He was an 

 untiring and eager worker, but withal so interested in all the doings 

 of his class and the various general interests of the student, that he 

 was never looked upon as a "dig." He was too genial, too good a 

 comrade, too sympathetic with all that was bright and wholesome, 

 for that. 



While I recall long evenings of work with him in the laboratory, 

 frequently lasting until midnight and after, others remember him for 

 his work in athletics, as artist of his class, and as generally one of 

 the best and truest fellows in 1887. 



He was graduated from Williams College with high rank and spent 

 the following year there as Assistant in Biology. He began his 

 original work that year by a study of the "Variation of the Spinal 

 Nerves in the Caudal Region of the Domestic Pigeon." He showed 

 at once the true scientific spirit. He was so eager and determined 

 to know the truth that no perplexing details could o.vercome his 

 patience, nothing could discourage his perseverance and enthusiasm. 

 He must have the truth, and no price was too great to give for it. 



In the following year, 1888-89, at the Johns Hopkins University 

 as a graduate student, he came under the influence and special 

 guidance of Professor Brooks. The opportunities for development 

 that were there provided him were met in the, same eager way so 

 characteristic of him. He appreciated this training keenly, and 



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