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 sociation for the Advancement of Science, and I have been on the executive committee of both of these organizations. Oh, I do not know, a number of years. I am on the executive committee now of the division of biology and agriculture of the National Research council. There are a lot of those offices which pile up on a man; he cannot avoid them.

Q—Have you written articles or books?

A—Oh, yes. When a man is engaged in research he has got to pass on the results of his work.

Q—What you have done?

A—Surely.

Q—How many pamphlets and articles?

A—Oh, I suppose sixty or seventy. I do not know, I have not any idea.

Q—In the main I suppose these were scientific magazines?

A—Yes, sir.

Q—Or journals?

A—Yes, sir. I was not counting any outside of the scientific journals.

Q—Are you a member of any church organization?

A—Yes.

Q—What one?

A—The Congregationalist church. Do you want to know the particular church?

Q—Yes?

A—I am now a member of the United church, in Oberlin, which is a Congregationalist church. I have been a member of two other congregationalist churches—no, one Presbyterian and one Congregationalist.

Q—You have been a Presbyterian, too, have you?

A—Well, I joined the Presbyterian church when I was 11 years old, I think—I am not sure.

A—And have you been connected with church activities aside from being a member?

A—Yes.

Q—In what way?

A—Well, in Baltimore I had charge of a Bible class in the church for about three years. I had charge of a Bible class of college students, well, not exclusively college students, mostly college students, in Oberlin. That is all, I think—of course I have had some church offices, but those do not mean much.

Q—Not unless it is treasurer or something like that.

A—No, nothing worse than deacon.

Q—Doctor, do you understand, or at least ever studied and read evolution?

A—Surely.

Q—For how long?

A—I cannot answer that question. I think I heard the word and the thought was long ago. I could not remember when, and an old brother with whom I used to sleep, used to discuss with me evolutionary subjects until we went to sleep at night, night after night, before I was eight years old, guess I had been brought up on it.

Q—Did your evolutionary studies include the development and evolution of man, in a general way?

A—I have never been a student of human morphology or human physiology distinctly, but I have been somewhat of a student of evolution, and especially interested in man, and I have given some lectures here and there on prehistoric man, early man.

Q—And you have studied as to the origin of man, have you not?

A—Well, I have not studied first-hand very much as to the origin of man, I have not been an archeologist or anthropologist, but I have read on it, and such lectures as I have given have been compendia from work done by other men, not my own work.

Q—But, you are familiar with that work?

A—Yes, sir, fairly broadly.

Q—And your studies in zoology, they have naturally been connected with the study of evolution?

A—Yes, I have always been particularly interested in the evolution of the individual organism from the egg, and also of the evolution of organisms as a whole from the beginning of life, that has been a