Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . e notable visits to the Swiss Glaciers, includingweeks of residence in the Alps, which resulted in his contri-butions to our knowledge of glacial phenomena and causes. When he came to America, in 1846, bent on a scientifictour and with an engagement to lecture at the Lowell Insti-tute in Boston, he was already a famous naturalist. Heentered with eagerness upon ex2)lorations, but he was alsocaptivated by the rejDublic, and when a year or more laterpolitical disturbances in Switzerland coincided with an offerof a chair in Harvard C
Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . e notable visits to the Swiss Glaciers, includingweeks of residence in the Alps, which resulted in his contri-butions to our knowledge of glacial phenomena and causes. When he came to America, in 1846, bent on a scientifictour and with an engagement to lecture at the Lowell Insti-tute in Boston, he was already a famous naturalist. Heentered with eagerness upon ex2)lorations, but he was alsocaptivated by the rejDublic, and when a year or more laterpolitical disturbances in Switzerland coincided with an offerof a chair in Harvard College, he sundered his connectionwith Europe, and thenceforward devoted himself to his newcountry. By lectures, by personal association, by his zeal infounding the great Museum of Comparative Zoology, by ex-peditions, and beyond all by the enthusiasm which his nobledevotion to science inspired, he made himself the greatteacher of America, and from his advent may be dated themarvelous rise of interest in natural science. He died atCambridge, December 14, o~^X THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH. It is often difficult to separate a man from the bookwhich he writes in the first i3erson ; how much more whenthe theme is boyhood — a period which one in recollectionmay easily detach from consciousness, so that it seems likethe experience of some one else — and when, also, the exter-nal lines of the story correspond with those of the authorspersonal history. At any rate The Story of a Bad Boy isquite commonly taken as containing Mr. Aldrichs early rec-ollections, infused with his imagination. Perhaps the pro-portion of his name used in the book marks the proportionof fact in the story. He was born at Portsmouth, N. H.,November 11, 1887. His fathers business connections withNew Orleans led to a division of life between the southernand the northern port. In winter the family made theirhome in New Orleans, in summer in Portsmouth. In histhirteenth year, however, the boy discontinued hi
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