Mark Anniversary Volume

Abstract

THIS stately volume is a tribute to a notable personality in the history of American zoology. It has been inspired by the affection and loyalty of about one hundred and fifty of his former students, twenty-six of whom contribute the memoirs which fill its 500 quarto pages. To their esteemed master, these students—now themselves in many cases well known teachers and investigators—express their gratitude for his rigorous discipline in methods of work, for his critical skill, and for his stimulating sympathy. They recall with pride the service that was done to science by the publication of Mark's work on the maturation, fecundation, and segmentation of the egg of Limax—“a work that introduced into America the then new cytological methods in the application of which this country has since reached an elevated position. It likewise introduced into zoology a proper fulness and accuracy of citation and a convenient and uniform method of referring from text to bibliography. It marked a step forward, also, in thoroughness and detail, and in the full recognition that, even in zoology, as in physics and chemistry, method is hardly less important than matter.”

Mark Anniversary Volume.

To Edward Laurens Mark., Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoological Laboratory at Harvard University, in Celebration of Twenty-five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoology, from his former Students, 1877–1902. Pp. xix + 513; 36 plates and portrait. (New York: Holt and Co., 1903.)