902 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST: 
him, while the new energies of exploration and the deepened 
currents of study and insight ushered in our modern period 
with its exuberant hair-splitting and interminable terminologies: 
Professor Hall is dead. Contest and contestant sleep in one 
grave. There lives above it the imperishable memory of an 
enthusiasm and a devotion which began the most glorious 
chapter of scientific progress in America. 
