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friends and pupils among the most passion- 
ate leaders in this revolt.” 
Professor Rogers found many channels in 
which to suppress his feelings of loyalty and 
patriotism, and the newspapers of the time 
record the fact that only a week or two 
after the outbreak of hostilities when he 
was called upon to speak at the Thursday 
Club on some matter pertaining to science 
he “ very gracefully declined to discuss the 
topic proposed, and then made a stirring ap- 
peal to the Club in favor of providing a 
regiment of our brave volunteers with 
knapsacks.”” This appeal was seconded by 
the Hon. Edward Everett, the President of 
the Club, and in a few minutes a thousand 
dollars were subscribed. 
Innumerable examples showing this in- 
tense spirit might be quoted, not alone from 
letters to his brother in Glasgow, but from 
those to many prominent Englishmen whose 
friendship he enjoyed. During the darker 
days, in spite of his feeble health, he made 
patriotic addresses on Boston Common and 
on September 26, 1862, he referred to the 
Emancipation Proclamation of President 
Lincoln in the following thrilling words, a 
part of a letter to his brother Henry: 
“The great event since my last letter, the 
greatest event beyond comparison of the 
war, is the late proclamation of the Presi- 
dent, declaring the slaves of all rebellious 
States after January next to be forever free. 
On the 22d of September this momentous 
voice was uttered. On that day—in a 
sublimer sense than ever before—the sun 
crossed the line.” 
Under date of July 5, 1863, he describes 
the celebration of the ‘ Fourth’ in Boston. 
Dr. Holmes gave the oration in the ‘ great 
theatre to an audience packed to the dome,’ 
and the enthusiasm was great, all hearts be- 
ing absorbed in one feeling of patriotism. 
As evidence, however, that his interest 
in the progress of science was by no means 
dormant during those potentous days, he 
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adds: ‘‘ What kept me in the city, however, 
was my interest in the exhibition of the 
electric light, which the Council, at the in- 
stance of George Hale, encouraged by me, 
decided to make one feature of the evening 
celebration, as a substitute for part of the 
usual fireworks.”’ He describes in interest- 
ing detail how Ritchie accomplished asuperb 
success by putting a battery of 250 cells on 
the top of the State House dome, from 
which a ‘flood of light’ was thrown upon 
over 100,000 pedestrians who thronged the 
streets. 
But surely enough has been quoted and 
enough said to give some notion of the ex- 
treme interest of these volumes, not only to 
scientific men, but to all intelligent people 
who admire exalted character and lofty 
sentiment. America has produced no 
finer type of man than was exhibited in 
William Barton Rogers, who showed that 
it was not impossible for one who was pri- 
marily devoted to learning and original re- 
search in pure science to be at the same 
time a lovable companion, an eloquent lec- 
turer and a man of affairs whose influence 
upon his contemporaries resulted in the 
creation of new institutions and the re- 
modeling of old. It is even now too early 
to recognize in full measure the value of his 
life to the people, to whose best interests he 
showed a rare fidelity. 
T. C. MENDENHALL. 
THE MERTON RULES.* 
THESE are the Code of Nomenclature “at 
present in force for regulating all work 
done in the study of Microlepidoptera at 
Merton,’’ and ‘the object of these rules is 
to insure absolute obedience to the Law of 
Priority.”’ In so far as this Code is pecu- 
* Rules for regulating Nomenclature with a view 
to secure a strict application of the Law of Priority in 
Entomological work. Compiled by Lord Walsing- 
ham an [and] John Hartley Durrant. Longmans, 
Green & Co.: London, New York and Bombay. 2 
Noy., 1896. 8vo, pp. 18. 
