Charles Ruicrso)i licccJicr. — Clarke. y 
At tlic time Mr. Beccher was 'eaviiii^ All)any lie was ar^pointcd 
by the interests liostile to Hall to a newly created position on 
the ]\[usenm staff, "consulting jialeontologist,'' but this was so 
direct an affront to Hall that with the termination of the in- 
quisition, the place was at once discontinued. 
}>rr. lleecher's life at New Haven opened under Uv hap- 
piest auspices in a new and clearer atmosphere freshened by 
inspiring associations and in his future work he won and kept 
the confidence and loyal support of his colleagues and patron. 
Soon after his coming, and as early as his nuiseum duties al- 
lowed, he began his series of biogenetic studies which have 
been of wide-spread influence on his science and have estab- 
lished the high repute of his work. Among two groups of 
organisms he found the subject matter of most of his future 
studies, the brachiopods and the trilobites. His investigations 
on the former, constituting the earlier series, were inspired 
by the studies under way at Albany in preparation of the elab- 
orate two volumes on these structures. He kept in close touch 
with those investigations through his intimate acquaintance 
with ]\Ir. Schuchert and the writer, and most profitably fol- 
lowed out some of the suggestive points therefrom developed. 
His important series of papers on the trilobites may be regard- 
ed as originating in the impulse given bv ]\Iatthews's an- 
nouncement of antennre in Triarthrus becki from the Utica 
shale at Rome, N. Y. Aided l)y a lease of the locality of these 
interesting fossils taken by professor [Marsh he was enabled to 
acquire almost unlimited material and his preparations of the 
pyritized appendages of these creatures are as fine exemplifi- 
cations of his skill in this kind of handiwork as his exposition 
and reconstruction of the anatomy of the animal are of the ac- 
curacy of his correlative powers. V\ ith this series of papers 
is to be associated his determination of larval and later ihor- 
phology in other trilobites, all resulting in his classification 
which has altogether revolutionized previously ai'cepted 
schemes . 
In all his work of research, whether at Albany or Xew 
Haven, he evinced only a rather remote and occasional interest 
in problems of geology- or stratigraphy, rarciy even in strati- 
graphic paleontology. In the maturer phases of his thought 
he was concerned so whollv with the problems of phylogeny 
