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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.

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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.

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