Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . d theaccession of President Holyoke in 1737, l\Ir. Princewas appointed in association with Henry Flynt, toperform the duties of that office as Acting Presi-dent. In 1742 Mr. Prince severed his connectionwith Harvard, took orders in the Church of iMig-land and was sent as a missionary to the MosquitoIndians in Central America, where he died, July 25,1748, on the island of Ruatan, Honduras. WILDER, Burt Green Harvard
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . d theaccession of President Holyoke in 1737, l\Ir. Princewas appointed in association with Henry Flynt, toperform the duties of that office as Acting Presi-dent. In 1742 Mr. Prince severed his connectionwith Harvard, took orders in the Church of iMig-land and was sent as a missionary to the MosquitoIndians in Central America, where he died, July 25,1748, on the island of Ruatan, Honduras. WILDER, Burt Green Harvard 1862, 1866. Born in Boston, Mass., 1841 ; graduated HarvardScientific School, i865; medical cadet, Asst. Surgeon,and Surgeon of Volunteers in the Civil War; Assistantand Lecturer at Harvard, 1866-68; Prof, in Cornellsince 1867; Prof, in Medical School of Maine, Bow-doin, 1875-84; Pres. Am. Neurological Assoc, 1885,and Assoc. Am. Anatomists, 1898; author of works,mostly technical and on the brain. BURT GREEN WILDER, , Naturalist,was born in Boston, Massachusetts, AugustII, 1841. He received his technical education atHarvard, graduating (in Anatomy under Jeffries. BURT G. WILDER Wyman) from the Lawrence Scientific School in1S62 and from the Medical School in 1866. In themean time he had served through the Civil War inthe medical corps of the army, entering the serviceas a medical cadet in 1862 and being attached tothe Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers as Assistant-Surgeon and then as Surgeon in 1863-1865. Whilestationed on Folly Island, South Carolina, August20, 1863, he found a large and handsome spider(since named Nephila Wilderi by McCuok) fromwhich while alive he reeled off one hundred andfifty yards of yellow silk, as described in an illus-trated article in the Atlantic for August 1866, tlieonly instance in which illustrations have been ad- 458 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS niitted lo the pages of tliis conservative literarymonthly. From October 1866 to Jime 1
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