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 The Court—Well, that is all.

Q—(Mr. Darrow) What is your profession or business?

A—I am a zoologist.

Q—And just what is included in that?

A—It is the study of animals.

Q—How long have you been a zoologist?

A—Why, I began special study, with special interests, when I was about 14 years old. I do not know when I became a zoologist. I am now 58, I think—no 57, I think that is right.

Q—You have not learned it all yet, have you?

A—I am afraid not.

Q—Where do you say you began studying?

A—Why, when I was a youngster starting in at Oberlin college, at the age of 14.

Q—That is Oberlin, O.?

A—Yes, sir.

Q—What is the name of that college—Oberlin college?

A—Oberlin college.

Q—How long did you study at Oberlin?

A—Well, I was there—you mean after I was 14, after I began the study of zoology?

Q—Yes?

A—Four years.

Q—Then, what did you do?

A—I went to the Johns Hopkins university for graduate study in zoology.

Q—How long were you there?

A—Four years, the usual time.

Q—Well, that would make you out there at 22 years of age, then what did you do?

A—Well then, I accepted a position as associate professor of biology at the Woman's college, of Baltimore, it was then called, it is now Goucher college.

Q—How long were you there?

A—I was there until the spring of 1906, if you will excuse me from the mental arithmetic, I will state it that way.

Q—All right, that is just as good. And you are teaching zoology there?

A—What is that?

Q—You were teaching zoology there?

A—Yes, sir, I was teaching zoology with a little botany associated with it.

Q—And from there where did you go?

A—I went abroad.

Q—Where?

A—Working at the Naples zoological station, spending a year and a half at the zoological institution and then spending about a half year at the Institute Fur in connection with the Virschow hospital in Berlin.

Q—And from that time?

A—I had, already, before I went abroad, accepted a professorship in Oberlin, and I returned then to my Alma Mater in 1908, after this work in Berlin.

Q—What was the professorship you accepted?

A—Zoology, and the head of the department of zoology.

Q—And you have been there up to the present time?

A—No, I resigned in 1914 to give all of my time to research, in order to be free from teaching duties, I resigned.

Q—Where did you work after that?

A—I worked in my own laboratory, which I called the Orchard laboratory, used that name in publication, which was my private laboratory, which I and a few advanced students in Oberlin college were working in. They were working with me, but by sub-rosa arrangement.

Gen. Stewart—What kind of an arrangement?

A—Sub-rosa.

Q—Is that a zoological term?

A—No, straight Latin.

Mr. Darrow—You are thinking of Rosa.

Mr. Stewart—I though maybe it was a cigar of some kind.

Mr. Darrow—It does sound like one.

Q—(Mr. Darrow) And then what did you do next?

A—Well, I continued that work until—it is hard work for me to remember just what year it was, I