26 SCIENCE 
testimony to the presence in him of the 
same sterling qualities of mind and heart. 
He was a man of great physical and in- 
tellectual strength and endurance, posses- 
sing a well-ordered mind, with all its pow- 
ers under perfect control, a realization, in 
truth, of Huxley’s picture of a liberally 
educated man: 
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, 
who has been so trained in youth that his body is 
the ready servant of his will, and does with ease 
and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it 
is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic 
engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in 
smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, 
to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the 
gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the 
mind; whose mind is stored with a knowledge of 
the great and fundamental truths of nature and of 
the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted 
ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions 
are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the 
servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to 
love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to 
hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. 
I have been led to a choice of a theme for 
this occasion by the memory of a conversa- 
tion, if that may be called a conversation 
where one talked and the other listened, 
which took place more than thirty years 
ago. Professor Baird then expressed his dis- 
appointment that more of the young zoolo- 
gists of America were not taking up the 
study of groups of animals, thus making 
themselves authorities in some not too nar- 
row field. Thus in time authoritative me- 
’ moirs and monographs would be forthcom- 
ing based on our own fauna, valuable 
alone as contributions to knowledge, and 
sure to be of assistance in the solution of 
problems of vital importance to the welfare 
of the people. The disposition of Ameri- 
can teachers, especially in the eastern uni- 
versities, to interest themselves and their 
students exclusively in the biological fad of 
the hour was criticized, but, of course, not 
unkindly. 
[N. S. Von. XLVIII. No. 1228 
, We were seated on the veranda of the 
Fish Commission residence at Woods Hole, 
and the murmur of a strong tide making 
to the eastward through the ‘‘hole’’ was in 
our ears. Since that quiet evening many 
tides have ebbed and flowed, and many bio- 
logical fads have risen to flood and have 
ebbed away, bearing on their bosoms the 
wreckage of many rejected theories. 
Assuming that as accurate a knowledge 
as it is possible to gain of the living forms 
that are found in our country is desirable, 
to what extent, if any, has the situation im- 
proved as it relates to those tendencies 
which disturbed the scientific and patriotic 
mind of Professor Baird nearly a genera- 
tion ago? 
Had he been on the same spot some 
twenty-three years later, when in 1907 a 
considerable number of foreign delegates 
to the International Zoological Congress, 
which met that year in Boston, visited 
Woods Hole, his feelings as an American 
zoologist could be imagined, when he heard, 
as many of us did, expressions of surprise 
from visiting European naturalists, that 
among all the American zoologists at Woods 
Hole, drawn as they were from a large 
number of the universities and colleges of 
the country, there were so few who had an 
authoritative knowledge of any part of the 
fauna of their country. 
It is a significant fact that Professor 
von Graff, who at the Boston meeting was 
elected to the presidency of the congress 
for its next meeting, while in this country, 
made collections of turbellarians at Syra- 
cuse, Cold Spring Harbor and Woods 
Hole and, returning to his university, 
Gratz, published, four years later, an im- 
portant paper on these American forms. 
This paper, beside giving descriptions of 
seven new genera and thirty-one new spe- 
cies and one new subspecies, contained 
much anatomical and morphological detail. 
