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tions, which were, indeed, largely mono- 

 logues, and recall also a remark of Eath- 

 bun's, made a few years later. He said 

 that Ryder would awaken lively interest at 

 the meetings of the Biological Society in 

 "Washington, and hold their undivided at- 

 tention throughout the entire meeting, al- 

 though, often, he confessed, no one was ex- 

 actly certain what he was actually talking 

 about. He was wonderfully suggestive and 

 always interesting. After having been a 

 member of the faculty of the University of 

 Pennsylvania for but a few years, he died at 

 a comparatively early age. His death, as 

 was that of the talented and beloved Mont- 

 gomery, who some years later succeeded 

 him to the same chair, was a calamity to the 

 science of biology in this country. 



Theodore N. GiU appeared to me to be a 

 rather elderly man in 1882, but he could 

 not have been much above fifty years of age. 

 He was then and, unless his memory has 

 yielded to the weight of years within the 

 past few months, still is an animate ichthy- 

 ology in himself. How a memory such as 

 his could develop in these days of printed 

 books, with their tabulated lists and bibliog- 

 raphies alphabetically arranged for ready 

 reference, is a marvel. Names of varieties, 

 species, genera, families, orders, sjm- 

 onyms, authorities, morphological details, 

 literature in many tongues, seemed to be 

 always at hand and ready for immediate 

 use. In the variety, extent and accuracy of 

 his knowledge he stands in a class by him- 

 self among the men I have known.^ 



Dr. Jerome Kidder, naval surgeon, was 

 another of the interesting and capable men 

 that Professor Baird attracted to himself 

 and the commission. He had charge of 

 such investigations as required a knowledge 

 of chemistry. His personality is still a very 

 real presence in my memory where he 



3 Professor Gill died September 25, 1914, aged 

 seventy -seven. 



stands as a model of good-breeding, good- 

 humor and good-fellowship. He was pos- 

 sessed of intellectual endowments of signal 

 brilliancy. His early death was mourned 

 by a much wider circle than that bound to 

 him by the ties of kindred. 



Tarleton H. Bean was not engaged in 

 field work much of the time in the years of 

 which I am speaking, although he had been 

 much in the field in the earlier days of the 

 commission. As I remember him he was al- 

 ways animated and cheery, abounding in 

 interesting and amusing anecdote, with an 

 extensive and accurate knowledge of fishes 

 and their ways. 



Captain Z. L. Tanner, in 1882, was in 

 command of the Fish Eawk whose construc- 

 tion he had superintended. Before that 

 time he had been in command of the Speed- 

 well. When in 1883 the Albatross was 

 placed in commission he became her com- 

 mander. While a naval officer with the 

 rank of captain, he was not a graduate of 

 the Naval Academy, but had been pro- 

 moted for distinguished services in the 

 Civil War. He had a fiorid complexion, a 

 somewhat harsh voice, and a bluff and 

 hearty manner, such as one naturally as- 

 sociates with the typical ship 's captain. He 

 was a strict disciplinarian, but just and 

 impartial, and highly respected by all who 

 served under him, or were in any way as- 

 sociated with him. 



Captain J. W. Collins was the designer 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission schooner 

 Grampus and her first skipper. The 

 Grampus was intended to be a model fish- 

 ing schooner, and is distinguished as the 

 prototype of the We're Here of Kipling's 

 "Captains Courageous." He is remem- 

 bered by me for his cordial and approach- 

 able maner, his profound knowledge of the 

 fishing industry, especially on the Banks, 



