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In high green summer at Woods Hole, on a weekend of science and civilized hospitality, death paid its call upon Alberto Monroy. He had returned joyously to this shore, his troubled health having improved sufficiently to permit it. Death came as it usually does: rudely, barging in without so much as a knock at the door, heedless ofother plans the unprepared host had made. This issue of The Biological Bulletin is dedicated to Alberto Monroy. It is not a Festschrzfi. It prints the last paper upon which he had been engaged before his busy hand was stayed. There will be proper Festschrifien: Alberto Monroy was a member of many Academies and distinguished scholarly societies. Proper scientific biogra phies will be prepared, and well worth the preparation. His career as an embryologist spanned the biological revolutions of this century following upon the dual triumphs, in the 1930s, of metabolism and genetics. What I write here is not the analytical evaluation that needs more distance from the man than I can step off. Neither, however, is it merely an obituary. He was too good a friend to for that, and too important a member of this, the community of the Marine Biological Labora tory, to

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Author

Paul R. Gross

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1986

Language

EO

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)