Impressions of great naturalists

Part 12

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G. BROWN GOODE, Zoologist. “Goode as a Naturalist.” Address at the G. Brown Goode Memorial Meeting, U. S. National Museum, February 13. _Science_, N. S., vol. 5, no. 114, March 5, 1897, pp. 373–378.

EDWARD DRINKER COPE, Palæontologist.

Memorial Biography. _Science_, N. S., vol. 5, no. 123, May 7, 1897, pp. 705–717.

“A Great Naturalist.” _The Century Magazine_, vol. 55, no. 1, Nov. 1897, pp. 10–15.

“Life and Works of Cope.” Introduction to Syllabus of Lectures on the Vertebrata by E. D. Cope. Univ. of Penn., 1898, pp. iii-xxxv.

“Work in the Mammals.” Address in memory of E. D. Cope, delivered at the meeting in the hall of the American Philosophical Society held in Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, Nov. 12,

1897. _Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. Memorial Volume I_, 1900, pp. 296–303.

HENRY FILHOL, Palæontologist. _Science_, N. S., vol. 15, no. 388, June 6, 1902, p. 912.

KARL ALFRED VON ZITTEL, Palæontologist. _Science_, N. S., vol. 19, no. 474, Jan. 29, 1904, pp. 186–188.

JOHN BELL HATCHER, Palæontologist. “Explorations of John Bell Hatcher for the Palæontological Monographs of the U. S. Geological Survey, together with a statement of his contributions to American Geology and Palæontology.” Monographs of the U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 49, “The Ceratopsia” by Hatcher, Marsh, Lull. Washington, 1907, pp. 17–26.

MORRIS KETCHAM JESUP, Administrator.

_Science_, N. S., vol. 27, no. 684, Feb. 7, 1908, pp. 235–236.

Address of Welcome at commemoration of the founding of the American Museum of Natural History. Unveiling of the statue of Morris K. Jesup. _Amer. Mus. Journ._, vol. 10, March, 1910, pp. 60–67.

CHARLES DARWIN, Biologist.

“Remarks on Darwin.” _The Evening Post_, New York, Feb. 12, 1909, p. 3.

“Darwin Celebrations in the United States.” _Nature_, vol. 80, No. 2055, March 18, 1909, pp. 72–73.

“Life and Works of Darwin.” Address delivered Feb. 12, 1909, at Columbia University on the hundredth anniversary of Darwin’s birth, Feb. 12, 1809, as the first of a series of nine lectures on “Charles Darwin and His Influence on Science.” _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, vol. 74, no. 4, April, 1909, pp. 313–343.

“Acceptance of the Portrait of Darwin.” _Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci._, vol. 19, no. 1, pt. 1, July 31, 1909, pp. 21–22.

“The Darwin Centenary.” Address in reply to the reception of delegates, Cambridge, England, June

23, 1909. _Science_, N. S., vol. 30, no. 763, Aug. 13, 1909, pp. 199–200.

JOHN I. NORTHROP, Zoologist. Introduction to “A Naturalist in the Bahama Islands.” A memorial volume. 8vo. Columbia University Press, June 15, 1910, 276 pp.

ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, Naturalist.

“Scientific Worthies.” _Nature_, vol. 89, no. 2224, June 13, 1912, pp. 367–370.

“Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823–1913.” _Pop. Sci. Monthly_, vol. 83, no. 6, pp. 523–537.

“A Great Naturalist.” _Amer. Mus. Journ._, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 331–333.

JOSEPH LEIDY, Anatomist. Biographical Memoir. Read by title at meeting of National Academy of Sciences, April 18–20, 1911. Presented to the Academy at the April Meeting, 1912. _Biographical Memoirs National Acad. of Sciences_, part of vol. 7, Feb., 1913, pp. 339–396.

LOUIS PASTEUR, Bacteriologist. “The New Order of Sainthood.” _The Churchman_, vol. 107, no. 15 (whole no. 3560), April 12, 1913, pp. 474–475. Reprinted by Charles Scribner’s Sons, 12mo, October, 1913, 17 pp.

EBERHARD FRASS, Palæontologist. _Science_, N. S., vol. 41, no. 1059, April 16, 1915, pp. 571–572.

JOHN MUIR, Naturalist. _Sierra Club Bulletin_, vol. 10, no. 1, January, 1916, pp. 29–32.

GUSTAV SCHWALBE, Anatomist. _Science_, N. S., vol. 44, no. 1125, July 21, 1916, p. 97.

JOEL ASAPH ALLEN, Zoologist.

Foreword to “Autobiographical Notes and a Bibliography of the Scientific Publications of Joel Asaph Allen.” _Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ._, 8vo, Dec. 26, 1916, xi and 215 pp.

“An Appreciation.” _Nat. Hist._, vol. 21, pp. 513–515.

WILLIAM BERRYMAN SCOTT, Palæontologist. “The Work of Professor William Berryman Scott ’77.” _The Princeton Alumni Weekly_, vol. 17, no. 10, Dec. 5, 1917, pp. 225–226.

JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE, Lawyer. A Tribute from the Trustees of the American Museum. _Mus. Publ._ 4to, June 25, 1918, 34 pp.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Explorer.

“Colonel Roosevelt.” _The (New York) Evening Post_, vol. 118, no. 41, p. 7, Jan. 6, 1919.

“Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist.” _Nat. Hist._, vol. 19, no. 1, March 28, 1919, pp. 9–10.

“Roosevelt the Student of Nature.” _The New York Sun_, vol. 89, no. 55, Nov. 3, 1921, p. 24.

SAMUEL WENDELL WILLISTON, Palæontologist.

_Journ. of Geol._, vol. 26, no. 8, Nov.-Dec., 1918, pp. 673–689. _Science_, N. S., vol. 49, no. 1264, pp. 274–278, March 21, 1919. _Bull. Geol. Soc. of Amer._, vol. 30, pp. 66–76.

“Samuel Wendell Williston—The man and the palæontologist.” _Sigma Xi Quart._, vol. 7, no. 1, July 19, 1919, pp. 2–6.

JAMES BRYCE, Author. Address on Viscount Bryce at the Memorial Service in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, March 5, 1922.

JOHN BURROUGHS, Naturalist. “The Racial Soul of John Burroughs.” Address at the Memorial Meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, November 18, 1921.

HOWARD CROSBY BUTLER, Archæologist. Address at the Memorial Meeting in Graduate College, Princeton University, October 21, 1922.

Footnote 1:

The author has written fifty-seven biographic sketches, forty of which are listed in the appendix of this volume.

Footnote 2:

See his principal work, entitled “Naturalist on the River Amazons,” 2 vols., 8vo, John Murray, London. 1863.

Footnote 3:

Alfred Tennyson, Edgar Allen Poe, Felix Mendelssohn, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Ewart Gladstone.

Footnote 4:

Vallery-Radot, René. “The Life of Pasteur.” Translation of Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. (London, Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., 1906, pp. 416, 417.)

Footnote 5:

Osler, Sir Wm. “Man’s Redemption of Man.” 12mo. (Paul B. Hoeber, New York.)

Footnote 6:

Aristotle (“Physics,” ii, 2). “Art mimics nature.”

Footnote 7:

Gen. 2:15; 3:19.

Footnote 8:

“The Vision of Dante Alighieri.” Translated by the Reverend H. F. Cary. Canto XI, Hell, p. 47. “Dante’s Divine Comedy,” with an Introduction and Notes by Edmund G. Gardner, M.A. (London, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.)

Footnote 9:

Longfellow’s Translation, Inf., Vol. XI, pp. 97–108.

Footnote 10:

This passage probably indicates that he was sensitive to being laughed at for his interest in these animals.

Footnote 11:

“The Smaller Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, New York” (jointly with H. D. Minot).

Footnote 12:

Dante Alighieri, “Inferno” XXVI, ll. 112–120. Translated by the Reverend H. F. Cary, A.M.

Footnote 13:

Alfred Tennyson. “Ulysses.” Last four lines.

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