Excerpt from Brinton Memorial Meeting: Report of the Memorial Meeting Held January Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred, Under the Auspices of the American Philosophical Society, by Twenty-Six Learned Societies in Honor of the Late Daniel Garrison Brinton, M.D Vast almost beyond belief is the amount of laborious single-handed work that Dr. Brinton accomplished. Yet to all casual Observers he seemed essentially a cosmopolite, a man of leisure and at home in society in the living world. Men saw his urbane and easy habits always with this thought at first, then looked with amazement on the mountains of ore he had delved and refined from the deepest lore of science or garnered from its most widely sundered fields. Occasion once led me hurriedly into your Public Library across the way. Pardon me, but it was on one of those not infrequent lowering days of Philadelphia fog when the light Of that lofty hall was unusually dim. Seated at the end of a table I beheld a distinguished-looking gentleman attired as became a man of care and taste when making a round of afternoon calls and receptions, the button of the Loyal Legion in the lapel of his coat. One hand kept place in an open book, in the other he held a watch, and near by lay a scrap of paper two inches square. Here is a man who must have been roused to unusual interest, for evidently he is making calls, yet meantime studying, not merely glancing through, a work of science. I stepped nearer. It was the next last time I beheld Dr. Daniel Brinton, looking more worn than I had ever seen him, yet not less eagerly and absorbingly interested. Half of the little paper was covered with a summary of what he had read - the early third, at least, of the volume before him - and I quietly came away, possessed of one explanation of his prodigious achievements. When we see the monumental results of these left for our heritage, why should we regret? Yet who of his rightful heirs therein can refrain? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.