Excerpt from Mark Anniversary Volume: To Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Director of the Zoölogical Laboratory at Harvard University, in Celebration of Twenty-Five Years of Successful Work for the Advancement of Zoölogy From His Former Students, 1877-1902

We recall with pride the service that was done science by the publication Of your 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. These ideals in produc tive scholarship have been retained throughout the series Of researches issued by yourself and your pupils.

Much more personal and more precious to us has been your work in training zoologists. We call to mind your rigorous preliminary methods that gave us self reliance, and your constant advice and encouragement; and we have keen and grateful recollections of the critical skill with which you discussed with us our completed studies.

But the memories that we cherish most, the inspiration and the stimulus that have abided longest, depend on certain traits Of your character Of which this is not the fitting place to make analysis, and Of which only your students fully appreciate the influence. Your geniality, your sympathy, and especially your scientific honesty and justice - the influence of these on your pupils no less than your scholarship have inspired this tribute Of affection and loyalty.

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