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ican college whose organization includes a biological department, 

 Cornel] University may be said, in the person of one of its Faculty, 

 and a leading pupil of the Swiss professor, to have inherited from 

 him in the "direct'" line beyond all others. Thanking you for the 

 compliment, I am 



Sincerely yours, 



E. C. Spitzka. 



Andrew D. White, Esq. , President Come// University. 



Letters of regret were also received from Professor Asa Gray, 

 of Cambridge; Mass. ; Dr. Harrison Allen, of Philadelphia ; Mr. 

 J. A. Allen of the American Museum of Natural History, and 

 lately of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ; Professor S. F. 

 Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Harlan H. Bal- 

 lard, Principal of Lenox Academy, and organizer of the many 

 Agassiz Associations among young people ; Professor E. W. Blake, 

 of Brown University, formerly of Cornell ; J. Henry Blake, Artist 

 Naturalist at Cambridge ; Professor E. W. Claypole, of Bnchtel 

 College, Ohio ; President Eliot, of Harvard Univerisity ; E. A. 

 Gastman, Superintendent of the Illinois Board of Education ; 

 President Gilman of the Johns Hopkins University ; Rev. Dr. 

 Thomas Hill, formerly President of Harvard University; Professor J. 

 B. Holder, of the American Museum of Natural History ; President 

 D. S. Jordan, (Cornell, '72) of the Indiana State University; Pro- 

 fessor Joseph Leidy, of Philadelphia ; Professor E. S. Morse, of 

 Salem, Mass. ; Professor J. T. Rothrock, of Philadelphia ; Pro- 

 fessor S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., editor of "Science ;" 

 Professor N. S. Shaler, of Harvard University ; Professor S. I. 

 Smith, of Yale College ; Professor A. E. Verrill, of Yale College ; 

 Professor H. A. Ward, of Rochester ; Mr. W. J. Youmans, editor 

 of the "Popular Science Monthly," and others. 



