Apbil 16, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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with the then aged Dr. Jared P. Kirtland. 

 We decided to ask the Kirtland Society of 

 Natural History to act as sponsor for our 

 plans. Although this was conceded, and an 

 effort was made to finance the project, it was 

 but a gloomy outlook before the volunteer 

 instructors when the students began to reg- 

 ister. Albert H. Tuttle, now professor in the 

 University of Virginia, Wm. K. Brooks and 

 the writer, all then earning a scanty living by 

 work not germane to the task, came before the 

 little band of students almost empty handed. 

 Certain influential members of the Kirtland 

 Society had successfully prevented our use of 

 the society's working rooms, on the ground that 

 the smells and refuse from dissections would 

 annoy other tenants and injure the building. 

 The officers endeavored to raise funds, but the 

 subscription papers headed by them were 

 signed for such small sums that those who 

 might otherwise have given more freely were 

 limited by them. The money actually secured 

 would not cover the cost of collections, to say 

 nothing of freight and other expenses. We 

 decided to put on a bold front, and to start 

 with such home material as we might indi- 

 vidually collect or purchase in local markets. 

 But it was found impossible to rent other 

 quarters, owing to prejudice against our 

 " bloody " work. After anxious consultations, 

 the plan suggested by Brooks was adopted. 

 We would hold field sessions and depend upon 

 enthusiasm and contact with nature to some- 

 how work out results. As a last resort, it 

 might be possible to utilize the barn of good 

 old Dr. Kirtland, miles out in the coUiltry. 



At this juncture there came forward keen- 

 sighted men whose memories should be revered 

 by all who have made sacrifices for science. 

 Andrew J. Eickoff, then superintendent of 

 schools of Cleveland, urged the board of edu- 

 cation to offer free use of the Central High 

 School Building and its appurtenances to us, 

 as three of its former pupils, during the vaca- 

 tion. A resolution was passed, referring the 

 matter to the superintendent of buildings, 

 with power, provided that all damages accru- 

 ing from dissections, etc., be made good by the 

 summer school. There were pressures of the 



hand, words of encouragement and quiet exer- 

 cises of influence from the great-hearted Eick- 

 off which gave inspiration to Brooks in his 

 splendid work of that summer. Leonard Case, 

 owner of the building occupied by the Kirt- 

 land Society, had at first approved the use of 

 the society rooms by the school. The adverse 

 influences, and more particularly the objec- 

 tions of tenants, had caused him to rescind 

 this privilege. He had not personally sub- 

 scribed to the sustaining fund, and no one 

 regarded him as in any way favorably inclined 

 to our project. It was a gloomy outlook which 

 confronted the instructors on the day before 

 the opening, when only three teachers (from 

 Indianapolis) had registered (Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan was probably responsible for these). 

 The writer, as editor of a " science column " 

 in the Cleveland Herald, had published widely 

 the plans and this appeared to be the sole out- 

 come of months of labor and sacrifice. Mr. 

 Benedict, proprietor of the Herald, and J. H. 

 A. Bone, its talented editor, had given warm 

 support liberally in print and by those little 

 words which lie stored forever in memory. 

 But to Brooks and us the apparent misunder- 

 standing of Leonard Case was a most dis- 

 heartening blow. 



I can never forget the conference with 

 Brooks in the office of the Kirtland Society, 

 where the gross results were canvassed towards 

 evening of that day. In words like these he 

 spoke : " I am glad there are three of them — 

 one apiece, all women. What could we have 

 done — ^we three — if there had been but one? 

 Three teachers, well trained, means the sowing 

 of seed which shall yield a harvest none can 

 measure." 



We parted for the night. Left alone and 

 heartsick, I saw Leonard Case enter the room 

 as if he were about to do something mean. 

 He asked "How did you come out?" "Oh, 

 fairly," was the reply. " I don't suppose you 

 got any too much for collections and excur- 

 sions, did you ? " He was told that we could 

 manage somehow. Then he blushed and ap- 

 peared ill at ease, remarking that he had 

 regretfully kept us out of the rooms and that 

 he had watched our work and knew with whom 



