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Field, Associate Professor of Cellular Biology, is 

 now ready, I understand, for the press. 



Prof essor Jenks possessed a remarkably cheerful 

 temperament, and a disposition so genial, that he was 

 always ready to do a friendly act, and never ready to 

 speak an unkind or ill word. Hence he made friends 

 wherever he went. He saw the types of Southern 

 feeling as developed in slavery, secession, and recon- 

 struction, and through it all preserved the most 

 cordial relations with his early associates in Virginia 

 and Georgia, as his journals and letters amply testify. 

 He was withal a popular and instructive lecturer, 

 and his services as such were in request by schools, 

 academies and societies. While some are respected 

 for their position, and esteemed for their abilities, he 

 was respected, esteemed and beloved by his associ- 

 ates in the Faculty, his pupils at the Academy and 

 College, and by all with whom he came in contact. 



It may be interesting to know the views of Pro- 

 fessor Jenks as a naturalist, on the Darwin theory of 

 development, in relation to the origin of the human 

 race. He believed with the inspired Apostle, that 

 " God hath made of one blood v all the nations of 

 the earth; that man was the completed work of Cre- 

 ation; that he was made in the image of God, a little 

 lower than the angels, and crowned with glory and 

 honor; that he was made to have dominion over the 

 works of the Creator's hands; that in the words of 

 the Psalmist, " all things were put under his feet, all 

 sheep and oxen, yea, the beasts of the field, the fowl 



