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lection of scientific memoirs published by some of Prof. Burt Wilder’s 
former students, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his 
connection with Cornell University. These essays deal with a wide 
range of subjects, but are mainly in the line of evolutionary thought. 
Among the contributors are artists, instructors, physicians, officers in 
government departments, professors in medical colleges and in univer- 
sities, and a university president. The papers are prefaced by a list of 
the more important scientific publications of Prof. Wilder, and a brief 
sketch of his work at Cornell University, including a table of the 
number of students personally taught by him during each college year 
from the beginning of the University (1868) to the twenty-fifth com- 
mencement, (1893). 
The illustrations comprise an excellent portrait (Japan proof), 26 
plates, and 36 figures in the text. 
The book embraces many papers which contain the results of origi- 
nal scientific research by their authors. The whole constitutes a per- 
manent monument not only to man whom it was assigned thus to honor, 
but to Cornell University, and to the devotion of the contributors to 
the true spirit of science. 
