THE MAIL

To the Editor of the Crimson:

Harvard men of several generations will be much aggrieved to learn of the lamented passing of Robert A. Gilbert, assistant to the curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, on Wednesday, January 7, in the seventy-second year of his age. Many of the life-like animal exhibits in the Museum were the work of this Negro's skill, and ever since I first became acquainted with Mr. Gilbert, when I was an undergraduate in Harvard College, he inevitably suggested to my mind the unnamed Negro whom the great Charles Darwin mentions in his "Life and Letters" as having taught him how to stuff animals.

Mr. Gilbert will be remembered for his courtly manners and instinctive courtesy, which endeared him to everybody who was privileged to know him and who will miss his kind and friendly countenance. William Harrison '32