No. 601] CHARLES OTIS WHITMAN 



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lege, graduating 1877. He has ever since taken a leading 

 position in the Universalist ministry of Maine, having 

 been pastor at Augusta and being now at Portland, Maine. 

 He is an able preacher and popular among his parish- 

 ioners. 



This brief account of close relatives who have been dis- 

 tinguished scholars makes it clear how Charles 0. Whit- 

 man found it natural to follow a scholarly career. 



Thoughtfulness and Classicism.— 'Not all scholars are 

 of the same type. In one type (the hyperkinetic or ro- 

 mantic) there is a rich flow of brilliant ideas and a rapid 

 passage from one subject of interest to another. In the 

 other type (the hypokinetic or classic) there is a pro- 

 fundity of consideration of a subject and a persistence 

 of interest in it. Charles 0. Whitman belonged to the 

 latter type. This type ordinarily shows a recessive in- 

 heritance. His mother apparently showed this type. 

 She was gentle and pleasant and never lost her even tem- 

 per; while in many of the "Whitmans the temper was of 

 the periodically explosive sort; but there is evidence of 

 the classic temperament on the paternal side, e. g., in Har- 

 rison S. Whitman. 



That Charles Whitman was of the classic type and was 

 thoughtful will be generally conceded ; he was, indeed, one 

 of the best examples of this type that one could find. 

 He felt little pressure to express himself. His principal 

 biographer (Lillie, 1911) records only 67 titles of which 7 

 are his annual reports,— reports that, toward the end of 

 the series, were secured only, with much difficulty and 

 after long delay, and for the last twelve years not at all. 

 Of the remaining 60 there are hardly 20 that are to be 

 classed as typical professional papers, giving the final 

 results of finished observation. Some of the papers are 

 brief notices of technical methods (^fetbods in the Zoolog- 

 ical Station in Naples, 1882, with a Fieix-h tran^lntion; 

 treatment of pelagic fish eggs, 1883; moans of difforen- 

 tiating embryonic tissues, 1885; osmic acid and ]\rerkel'.s 

 fluid, 1886). Other papers are polemical (new facts 



