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ancient Norman family long settled in Scot- . 
land. He was also a great, great grandson of 
William White, D.D., LL.D., a graduate and 
trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, 
and first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
Diocese of Pennsylvania. Professor Mont- 
gomery’s mother, Anna Morton, was the 
daughter of Samuel George Morton, one of 
the founders of the science of craniology, and 
president of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia, which is but this week cele- 
brating its centenary. 
Professor Montgomery was born in New 
York, March 5, 1873, and early manifested 
traits worthy of his ancestors. After two 
years as a student in the University of Penn- 
sylvania, 1889 to 1891, he resolved to continue 
his studies in the University of Berlin, and 
secured his family’s consent to the plan. His 
indefatigable industry immediately attracted 
the attention of his fellow-students, one of 
whom has related his astonishment at seeing 
a boy of eighteen working with unflagging 
zeal eighteen hours a day, with almost no rest 
or recreation, in the simultaneous acquisition 
of a difficult language and a group of the nat- 
ural sciences. He received his degree of 
Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1894, 
and shortly after his return to America, was 
assigned by the University of Pennsylvania, a 
room for research work in the Wistar Insti- 
tute, being the first person so appointed. Dur- 
ing the next four years he labored with the 
same never failing energy, issuing a series of 
brilliant monographs upon some of the most 
difficult problems of zoology. In 1898 he was 
appointed assistant professor of zoology in the 
University of Pennsylvania. In 1903 he was 
called to the University of Texas as professor 
of zoology, but in 1908 he was recalled to take 
charge of the department of zoology in the 
University of Pennsylvania. Shortly after- 
ward he was intrusted by the university with 
the chief responsibility for the planning and 
construction of the new Zoological Labora- 
tory. Into this labor he threw himself with 
his usual untiring energy, giving personal at- 
tention to every detail. This building was 
completed and dedicated in 1911, and will 
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stand as a monument to his foresight and his 
executive ability. 
The results of Professor Montgomery’s re- 
search in the technically difficult problems of 
cellular structure and its relation to the phe- 
nomena of heredity and the determination of 
sex; in the activities, habits and development 
of spiders and birds; in the structure and de- 
velopment of various rotifers and insects and 
in the analysis of racial descent and of evo- 
lution, have been embodied in more than 
eighty published monographs. He has also 
published a volume, “ Analysis of Racial De- 
scent in Animals,” 1906, and has left in 
manuscript a nearly completed work on cytol- 
ogy. 
Professor Montgomery married, in 1901, 
Priscilla Braislin, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth Braislin, of Crosswicks, New Jer- 
sey. He is survived by his widow and three 
sons. Professor Montgomery was essentially 
a scholar and teacher, and for the greater part 
of his short life, his energies and interests 
were largely absorbed in his professional 
work, but he was much more; he was a man 
of the most sterling integrity, carrying into 
all the relations of life the sincerity, candor 
and faithfulness to truth which made him 
great in the realm of science. Those of his 
colleagues on the faculty, who came only 
professionally into contact with him, will, 
perhaps, remember these traits most vividly; 
but those of his friends who were privileged 
to know something of his home life, of his 
wholesouled devotion as husband, father and 
friend, will carry with them memories not less 
vivid and even more true of a noble and lov- 
able man whose loss they will not cease to 
mourn. 
We, his fellow-professors in the University 
of Pennsylvania, extend, therefore, to Mrs. 
Montgomery and the other members of his 
family, our sincere sympathy in their bereave- 
ment, and direct the secretary to transmit 
these resolutions to the public press and the 
scientific journals in testimony of Professor 
Montgomery’s distinguished services to sci- 
ence, education and the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and as an expression of the esteem 
