NATIONAL ACADEMY BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS — VOL. VII 



was better, I should be glad to be saved the mortification of 

 having published poorer work; if worse, it would only afford 

 additional material for my paper." His mind was too large 

 for little things, too sane for foolish ones. He was remarkably 

 original and suggestive in his methods of thought, and in his 

 views of scientific, social, and philosophical problems he was as 

 artless and direct as a child. He was critical, yet tolerant; 

 modest, but dignified ; loyal to his friends, his university, and 

 his ideals ; independent in thought and action, and not easily 

 moved from a position he had once taken. He was kind and 

 gentle ; and neither in his publications nor in his relations with 

 students did he ever deal in scorn, irony, nor invective. Presi- 

 dent Remsen said that he had been called the most lovable man 

 in his faculty. 



What is the secret of his remarkable influence over others, 

 which his students and associates recognize? By general con- 

 sent it is attributed not merely to his greatness as an investi- 

 gator and teacher, but also to his character as a man. In his 

 life there was nothing either to be concealed or explained. He 

 was "a man in whom there was no guile ;" a man of such trans- 

 parent simplicity and sincerity, of such single-hearted devotion 

 to science, so simple-minded, natural, kind, gentle, pure in 

 thought and deed, that his life as well as his work has left an 

 indelible impression upon all who knew him. 



SICKNESS. DEATH, AND BURIAL. 



A congenital defect of the heart had caused him to lead a 

 less active life physically than do most men, and to this trouble 

 other bodily ills were added as life advanced. He bore all these 

 ills with fortitude and patience, and many of his friends did not 

 know how serious his condition was. Professor Andrews, 

 who was closely associated with him, says : 



In 1908 difficulty in breathing added to his burdens and his machinery 

 was most seriously out of order. He continued to come to his lectures 

 and worked earnestly to complete a final paper on salpa, for which the 

 drawings were finished and which he planned to write out in the sum- 

 mer. This, he said, would probably be his last piece of serious micro- 

 scopic research, since trouble with his eyes made the employment of im- 

 mersion lenses too difficult; and his mind was eager to digest the facts 

 of his long experience and the recent work of others. But his strength 



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