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PROF, MARSH'S ESTATE,
Almost all of it Given to YVale—The
Funeral Wednesday.
By the will of Prof. Marsh, which
was filed in the Probate Court on March
23, all his property, both personal and
real, with the exception of $10,000 to
the National Academy of Sciences, was
left to Yale. His beautiful home and
grounds at 360 Prospect street, the lat-
ter covering I0 acres and worth in the
neighborhood of $85,000, was left to the
University for the uses and purposes of
a botanical garden, and his collection of
orchids, numbering about 2,000, together
with other greenhouse plants, were
given to form a nucleus for the new
department. |
The will also gave Professor Marsh’s
entire library of about 5,000 volumes
to the University. The library is
mostly on vertebrate Paleontology,
but comprises many books on Physi-
ology, Ornithology and Amthropology,
besides Cuvier’s works complete and a
history of Paleontology by Adam
Beringer, in 1726. It includes also the
latest complete works of Huxley, which
were a Christmas gift from the author.
to Prof. Marsh in 1895.
The sum of $30,000 of the estate of
George Peabody, which Prof. Marsh
was authorized to dispose of, was left
to the Corporation to be expended in
publishing the results of his explora-
tions in the West. The residuary estate,
which is augmented by the sale of Prof.
Marsh’s Oriental collection, pictures,
furniture, silver and bric-a-brac, is left
to Yale to be expended in promoting
original research in the Natural Sci-
ences.
of this residuary estate will come close
to $100,000.
The funeral services of the late Prof.
Marsh were held in Battell Chapel at
2.30 Wednesday afternoon, March 22,
and were attended by a large body of
the Faculty of the University, and by
many friends.
The sermon, which was a eulogy
of Professor Marsh was. delivered
by Prof. George P. Fisher. It is printed
below. After the singing of two hymns
by the Chapel choir, President Dwight
pronounced the benediction. The
burial was in the University lot in
Grove Street Cemetery. The honorary
pallbearers: were: Charles D. Walcott,
and Arnold Hague, Yale ’63S., Direc-
tors of the U. S. Geological Survey,
Washington, D. C.; Prof. George F.
Barker, Yale ’58S.; Prof Asaph Hall:
Prof. Edward S. Dana, Yale ’70; Prof.
William H. Brewer, Yale ’52S.; Prof.
D. Cady Eaton, Yale ’60; Prof, Addi-
son VanName, Yale ’58.
Professor Fisher’s Tribute.
Professor George P. Fisher spoke as
follows:
“The event that calls us together is
not only a bereavement to personal
friends, but also to the University which
Professor Marsh has served with so
great ability and distinction for a period
longer than the lifetime of a generation.
Another of the eminent men who have
brought honor to this Institution, in
our own land and abroad, has departed.
Only a few years have passed since
Whitney left us, and then Dana, and
now a third, a fit associate in service
and in fame, is added to the number.
“He has left us when he was still in
the midst of his work. He was no
longer young, but his energy did not
flag. He was still on the lookout for
new discoveries. He was exhilarated
by anything new which had a meaning
in his own line of research, as an as-
tronomer rejoices at the sight of a new
star. Railway cars still continued to
arrive, freighted with the bones of
animals and with fossil relics of the
distant past, for him to examine with
eager curiousity, to classify, and to de-
scribe in elaborate papers for students
of science on both sides of the ocean.
His drawers were full of essays not yet
finished, and of sketches to illustrate
them; for he was, indeed, a model of
industry. Not possessed of a fortune,
according to the estimates now in
vogue, yet, when comparatively young,
he had ample means to enable him, had
he chosen, to seek for comfort in a
It is understood that the amount -
“lettered ease.” Naturally fond of so-
ciety, he might have made science a
recreation and have spent his days in
a learned leisure.. He preferred rather
to plunge into study with an ardor
rarely equalled among studious men.
He preferred to employ his time in
unceasing investigation, and in the dif-
fusion of scientific truth.
“To say that ambition mingled in the
motives that impelled him is only to say
that he was human. But no one who
knew him needs to be told. that he was
an enthusiast in the branches to which
he was devoted. He delighted in dis-
coveries for their own sake. To ex-
plore the past history of animal life
gave him an immediate pleasure.
solve unanswered questions in the realm
in which he worked was in itself a de-
light. Certainly he craved no more
praise than he was conscious of having
justly earned. The scientific expedi-
tions of Professor Marsh to the region
of the Rocky Mountains, set on foot
by himself, began a little more than
thirty years ago. In these expeditions,
repeated from year to year, upwards of
a thousand new species of vertebrates,
as I am told, had been already dis-
covered several years ago, when the
enumeration was made.
HIS SERVICE TO THE INDIANS.
“These journeys into wild districts,
peopled, as far as they were inhabited at
all, by savages, were attended with no
little hardship and even peril of life.
The fruits of them were presented in
a scientific form in numerous papers by
Professor Marsh, and in works pub-
lished under the auspices of the national
government. The Indians were nat-
uraly suspicious of companies engaged
in an errand to them so mysterious and
unprofitable. It was the coming of a
strange visitor, not in quest of silver or
gold, but ostensibly to rifle the earth of
treasures to them valueless and unin-
telligible; but by fair dealing Professor
Marsh was able to conciliate their re-
gard. In his intercourse with them he
ascertained that in instances brought to
his knowledge they were defrauded by
government agents. He set about the
not altogether easy task of obtaining re-
dress for them. It demanded almost as
much courage as he had to exercise in
his exploring tours. Not in the least
deterred by rebuffs from certain offi-
cials at Washington, he persevered until
he achieved complete success. At a
later time, it is interesting to remember,
he was called upon at his own home by
a band of Indians, and he entertained
a famous chief for a number of days, in
his dwelling. A like hospitality he
showed to a rough backwoodsman, who
had served him as a guide.
“Tt is more appropriate to another
occasion, and for those engaged in pur-
suits kindred to his own, to define the
precise character and to sum up the re-
sults of Professor Marsh’s scientific
labors. It is needless to say, that they
have received a full recognition, from
masters in science, and through medals
and diplomas from universities and
learned societies in America and in
Europe.
THE STORES OF THE MUSEUM.
“As I entered the Peabody Museum
yesterday, the building seemed to be
full of his presence, as if he were the
sole tenant. It was largely owing to
him, indirectly at least, that the spacious
edifice was erected. Through the in-
valuable collection which he made, and
which is stored within its walls, it will
stand as a monument of his scientific
work, and equally as a memorial of his
love to Yale University, and of his
generous devotion to its interests.
His zeal in gathering this collection not
only inspired him in his own personal
labors to find its contents, but moved
him to spare no expense in enriching
it by costly purchases. Whenever he
learned that something new had been
unearthed, which promised to be of
value to his science, he either hurried
to the spot as fast as a swift train could
carry him, or a telegram went im-
mediately to one of his agents to pay its
price. All these fruits of so many years
of vigilant exertion and of an unstinted
outlay of money, he finally transferred
as a free gift to the University. Add
to this proof of loyal attachment to the
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The first annual intercollegiate gym-
nastic meet to decide the intercollegiate
championship was held Friday, March
24, in New York at the New York Uni-
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around championship were the follow-
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Captain of the Yale Gymnastic Team;
W. L. Otis, 1900, and E. L. Eliason,
1901, also of the Yale team. First
place was won by R. G. Clapp, which
makes him intercollegiate champion.
F. J. Belcher, of New York University,
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of Yale third. Cups were awarded to
the first, second and third man in each
event, and a loving cup to the winner.
of the all-round championship.
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[From Woodward’s “ Insurance in Connecticut?’]
The tna escaped the fire of December 16th, 1835, in New York City—the first in the
Series of great American conflagrations—which destroyed property to the value of $15,000-
000, and bankrupted twenty-three out of twenty-six local insurance companies.
the city the following year, having for agent Augustus G. Hazard, afterwards the organizer
and president of the Hazard Powder Company of Enfield.
It was not so fortunate in the fire
of 1845, which swept $6,000,000 of property from the business center of the metropolis, and
cost the Aetna $115,000. When the news reached Hartford, Mr. Brace called together the
directors and told them that the calamity would probably exhaust the entire resources of
the company. Going to the fire-proof vault, he took out and laid on the table the stocks and
bonds representing its investments.
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others had gone to the wall.
This was the last close call for the tna. To-day with its cash capital of
$4,000,000, a net surplus of nearly $4,500,000, and a system built on the
priceless experience of Seventy-nine years, it is hardly possible to conceive cf
its having a close call,
It entered .
