CIIAKLlvS SKDCWK K MINOT. 
At a meeting of the Society held on March 17th, 1915, in memory of 
Cliarles Sedf^wick Minot, the following,' addresses were presented. 
Address by I)k. Henry H. Donaldson. 
Admiration, gratitude, and att'ection bring us licre to-niglit to renew 
our impressions of Charles Sedgwick Minot — and to do him honor. 
It has been said that to understand a poet one must visit his country 
and it is equally true that to understand a scientist one must have 
knowledge of his surroundings. Our little journeys to the workshops 
of investigators have a special value. 
That we should gather in this building is therefore peculiarly fitting, 
not only because of the close association of Minot with this Society — 
over which he presided for some seventeen years, — but also because 
such close association of the laboratory worker with the broad interests 
of natural history is so very right, though not so very common. 
I have been asked to speak of Minot's work and this I shall essay to 
do, remembering the while that those who listen must, in many cases, 
have a knowledge of the man far more intimate than mine and also re- 
membering that already a sympathetic and illuminating account of 
Minot's work has been given by his friend and colleague, Dr. Lewis. 
Minot's early home was at the edge of the Great Forest lying to the 
south of this city. Fifty years ago we should have found him a lad of 
thirteen, well bred and well endowed, living under pleasant suburban 
conditions and amid surroundings which favored his boyish interest in 
the world about him. In 1869, at the age of sixteen, he made his first 
appearance in scientific literature by the description of the male of 
Hcspcria mctea, a small butterfly, captured in Dorchester and of 
special interest because only the female of this species had been 
previously recorded. 
All of us should retain a kindly feeling for the insect world — espe- 
cially the butterflies and moths — for how often and how naturally 
these seem to form the contact point between the observing lad and 
the world of living things! Most boys stop soon; Minot went on, 
and during that same year and the year that followed we find to his 
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