Vincent Starrett was a book collector, author, bibliographer, and a Sherlock Holmes scholar. He has been referred to as part of Chicago's "literary renaissance" and has written or edited more than 50 books of essays, criticism, fiction, biography, poetry, and bibliography. It has been said that Starrett's bibliographies on authors such as Arthur Machen, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Ambrose Bierce revived their popularity.

Born in Toronto, Starrett moved to Chicago with his family early on and eventually became a crime reporter, feature writer, political analyst, and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. His work at the Chicago Daily News ended with the publication of his first novel, Seaports in the Moon (1928), which was said to be a dominant bid for literary recognition. He also wrote a weekly column called "Books Alive" in the Chicago Tribune for 25 years, influencing the reading habits of millions. During this time he continued to write detective novels, literary essays, poetry, and more.

One of his greatest claims to fame was his fascination with and knowledge of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. In 1933 he wrote an imaginative biography on the fictional character called "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes." He was one of the founders of the Bakers Street Irregulars, a Sherlock Holmes society, and he was a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society in London.

Dr. Dawson relaxes at 221B Baker Street.

Chapter One: Ambushed!

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-Sealed Mousehole Mystery: Some mice claim that this case best displayed Basil's brilliance. A description of the events of this case have yet to be revealed. From the title it seems to be a mouse version of a "locked room" mystery.

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-"...London, England, on a chill April afternoon in the year 1891." : Over six years have passed between the events described in this book and the first Basil of Baker Street novel.

-Professor Ratigan: If Basil can be called the Sherlock Holmes of the Mouse World then surly Professor Ratigan can be called the Professor Moriarity of the Mouse World. Just as Moriarity controlled the human criminal underworld, so did Moriarity control the mouse underworld. As the story opens Basil has tracked down and jailed all but Ratigan and two of his gangsters.

Ratigan stole a suit of armor from the British Mousmopolitan Museum so that he could safely bargain with cats, and arrange to finish his enemies with their help.

Has a high bulging brow and deepset eyes. He spoke the King's English and is very polite. He is cruel and ruthless.

Ratigan is tall for a mouse, about five inches tall, or 1 half inch above average.

Ratigan, like Moriarity, is a mathematical wizard, and an expert in ciphers and codes.

-Stilton Square: named for the cheese or the man?

-"Ambushed by a starving Siamese!" : Cats are one of the great enemies of Mouse World. An interesting thing here is that Basil and the cat can communicate with one another. Apparently mice have a common language with cats, and as we will see, many other animals.

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-cat-and-mouse game: mice often use mouse and cat inspired maxims in a more literal way than humans. This is a general expression of their love of words and wordplay.

Stalked by a Siamese!

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-"I didn't. The cat ate me." : As time progresses and Basil becomes more confident in his abilities his odd humor asserts itself. We are seeing in this book a Basil with over six years of experience and confidence in his abilities. In the first novel he was still feeling his way in the role of "the Sherlock Holmes of Mouse World," here he is fully realized.

-Basil keeps some catnip with him so as to distract murderous felines.

-Ratcliffe: Professor Ratigan is a brilliant graduate from this university, a mouse version of Radcliffe. Basil also attended Ratcliffe, and shared a room with the Maharajah of Bengistan.

-International Society of Mouse Mountaineers: Basil and Dawson are both members. Also known as the ISMM.

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-Basil reveals himself to be an expert in archery and the history of archery. Holmes engages in indoor pistol practice, Basil prefers the bow and arrow. This is interesting, because the Basil of the previous book would probably not admit to such a difference from his mentor.

-Basil uses as a target an oil painting of a horned owl. Owls are also the enemies of Mouse World.

Target practice.

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Arrows

-William Tell from Berglen was known as an expert marksman with the crossbow. At the time, the Habsburg emperors were seeking to dominate Uri. Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian bailiff of Altdorf raised a pole in the village's central square with his hat on top and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before it. As Tell passed by without bowing, he was arrested. He received the punishment of either successfully shooting an apple off the head of his son, or dying.

Tell had been promised freedom if he shot the apple. On November 18, 1307, Tell split the fruit with a single bolt from his crossbow, without mishap. When Gessler queried him about the purpose of the second arrow in his quiver, Tell answered that if he had ended up killing his son in that trial, he would have turned the crossbow on the bailiff. Gessler became enraged at that comment, and had Tell bound and brought to his ship to be taken to his castle at Kessnacht. In a storm on Lake Lucerne, Tell managed to escape. On land, he went to Kessnacht, and when Gessler arrived, he shot him with a crossbow bolt.

This defiance of the Austrian reeve sparked a rebellion, leading to Switzerland's independence.

Chapter Two: The Mysterious Arrow

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-Edvard Hagerup: Mouse from Tromsˆ, Norway. In 1888 he won the Award of the Golden Cheddar for his book Our Feline Foes. His hobby is the British game of cricket. He's working on his latest book, Inside Cats.

His name is coincidentally similar to Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 - September 4, 1907) a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, and for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt.

-Many of the names dropped throughout this book are reminiscent of famous authors and musicians known to and admired by Eve Titus. The possibility exists that this is coincidental, but I would contend that she has adapted or translated many of the mouse names in Dr. Dawson's narrative for ease of understanding.

- Tromsˆ, Norway: Town in northern Norway, capital of Troms County. Tromsˆ is located on the island of Troms¯y off the northwestern coast of mainland Norway, in the Norwegian Sea.

It is the largest Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle. Troms County includes the adjacent mainland; Troms¯y Island is linked to the mainland by a bridge.

As the county seat, Tromsˆ is the administrative, communications, cultural, and educational center of northern Norway. It is also a fishing port with fish-processing industries. Other industries include shipbuilding, brewing, prefabricated houses, high technology, and tourism.

The town is served by an airport and is a starting point and support base for arctic expeditions. A meteorological station, an institute studying the aurora borealis, or northern lights, and the University of Tromsˆ (founded in 1968) are all located in Tromsˆ.

Tromsˆ was founded in the mid-13th century, and granted a town charter in 1794. The Norwegian government was based in Tromsˆ for a short period during World War II (1939-1945).

-Our Feline Foes: A book by Edvard Hagerup concerning the habits of cats.

-The Sticky Wicket in Cricket: a pamphlet concerning the British game of cricket.

-watch chain: The tiny-ness of this watch at the end of this chain is almost unbelievable.

-The Award of the Golden Cheddar: A literary award.

Dr. Dawson and Basil

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The Faversham letter.

-Flora and Fauna Faversham: Twin sisters, with names fitting for teachers in the fields of Botany and Zoology. They live in Kasedorf.

-Adorable Snowmouse: Giant shaggy mouse with a shovel shaped tail, standing seven inches high. Basil notes the low brow and small brainbox, and considers it a throwback to primitive cavemice, perhaps the last of its species.

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-Snow Lemming (Dicrostonyx): lives in the Arctic. His fur turns white and he's developed an extra claw for shoveling.

-"...large brain of today's civilized mouse." : The distinction made here between civilized mice and their less developed and more common cousins, may be useful. Could it be that the mice we see are another, unintelligent species?

-Turkish mice make the finest arrows.

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-The arrow is inscribed with a quaint saying in Turkish, "This arrowhead will never hit a good mouse." The language is probably mouse-Turkish. The arrow was crafted by a descendent of Byzant.

-Byzant: a traveling Turkish Arrowsmith visited Switzerland, married, had four sons and joined the dwellers in William Tell's cellar. His arrows were as finely crafted as a Stradivarius violin. The Tellmice appointed him Official Arrowsmith.

-"...the dwellers in William Tell's cellar." : This clearly indicates that just as Basil's home town of Holmestead is built in Sherlock Holmes basement, so did the Tellmice build a town in William Tell's cellar.

-Tellmice: name for the lost colony of mice that lived in William Tell's cellar and disappeared six centuries previously. Their disappearance is considered to be the greatest mystery in mouse history. They are the Lost Colony.

-Mouse History: Basil clearly differentiates between Mouse History and Human History. Though parallel and intermingled, they are separate lines of inquiry with events unique to each.

Chapter 3: The Detective's Decision

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-Heddmann: Just as Gessler persecuted the Swiss, so did the mouse Heddmann persecute the Tellmice. After proclaiming a 50% tax on cheese the Tellmice fled the cellar and took to the hills. After Switzerland won their freedom on August 2, 1291, the Tellmice were technically free, but no one was able to find them.

-Kasedorf: Where mountaineers meet for climbs in the Swiss alps, and where the Faversham sisters live.

-Inside Cats: Edvard Hagerup is doing dangerous research for this, his second, book.

-mouseterpiece: masterpiece, typical mouse pun

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-Cyril, the stoolpigeon: Once a carrier pigeon for the crown, he was caught selling secrets to foreign birds, had been dismissed in disgrace and became a stoolpigeon. Basil bribes him with plum pudding and his deerstalker cap. The other pigeons quickly destroyed the cap. It is clear that Cyril worked for the Mouse Crown, not the human government, as humans would have no way of knowing that a bird was selling state secrets. Of interest is the fact that Cyril and Basil speak a common language.

A carrier pigeon is a breed of pigeon (specifically a domesticated Rock Dove, Columba livia) that has wattles, a nearly vertical stature, and that may once have been used to carry messages. The carrier pigeons of today are not good flyers; they are kept as an ornamental or fancy breed, valued for their unusual appearance.

Carrier pigeons should not be confused with homing pigeons, another variety of Columba livia. Homing pigeons, not carrier pigeons, were used to carry messages in World War I and are nowadays used for pigeon racing.

STOOLPIGEON: A person hired by an employer to infiltrate the union and report on its activities.

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Cyril the Stoolpigeon bargains with Basil and Dr. Dawson.

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Chapter 4: Basil Goes to Prison

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-Channel steamer: None of the humans aboard noticed the Basil and Dawson sneaking aboard. Since it has been established that mice have mouse-scale ocean traveling vessels, the trip aboard the human steamer must be for time saving purposes. The steamer left London and arrived in Calais France.

-bicycles: A popular way for mice to travel in France. In her other series of mouse books, Anatole, Titus shows the mice using bicycles as their de facto mode of travel. Dawson and Basil bicycle from Calais to almost the Swiss border.

-Inspector Antoine Cherbou: of the Paris policemice, whose sleuthing skill was second only to Basil's. He's also a member of the ISMM. He has a weekly newspaper column, Of Mice and Music, and is a composer in his own right. He composed the Well-Tempered Yodeler, performed by Relda in Chapter 6.

-As the world's second greatest mouse detective, the French mouse Antoine Cherbou bears some similarity to Auguste Dupin.

He appears in three stories by Edgar Allen Poe:

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue " (1841)

"The Mystery of Marie Roget " (1842)

"The Purloined Letter " (1844)

While not the first detective in fiction, Auguste Dupin was the proto-type for many that came later (most notably Sherlock Holmes.) He lives in Paris alone in an old house. Many tropes that later would become commonplace in mystery fiction first appeared here: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling police, the first-person narration by a companion character. Like Sherlock Holmes, Dupin uses his considerable deductive prowess and observation to solve crimes.

-There is a similarity between the name Antoine Cherbou and Anthony Boucher:

Anthony Boucher (August 21, 1911 -April 29, 1968) was an American science fiction editor and writer of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of (mostly) mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Boucher was born William Anthony Parker White in Oakland, California, and went to college at the University of Southern California. He later received a Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He was admired for his mystery writing but was most noted for his editing, his science fiction anthologies, and his mystery reviews for many years in The New York Times. He was the first English translator of Jorge Luis Borges, translating "El jardÌn de senderos que se bifurcan" for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He helped found the Mystery Writers of America in 1946. He was also editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction for several years after its inception and was seminal in attempting to make literary quality an important aspect of science fiction. Anthony Boucher died of lung cancer on April 29, 1968 at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland.

The annual Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Convention was named in his honor.

-Brie: the queen of French cheeses. In writing about his world travels Dawson is always describing the cheeses he and Basil sample.

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-Basil here uses a knife to whittle himself a flute, not his teeth as assumed in the annotations to Basil of Baker Street.

-Dawson comments that Basil is still, after six more years of practice, a vile violin player.

-Englischer Hof: a quaint inn in Kasedorf.

-Mayor of Kasedorf: Personally introduces himself to Basil, Dawson and Cherbou.

-Police Chief Brunner: Chief of the Kasedorf police. He jailed two British mice.

The name is reminiscent of John Kilian Houston Brunner (September 24, 1934 - August 26, 1995) a prolific British author of science fiction novels and stories.

-Dickson and Carr: The names chosen here echo the name of one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.

John Dickson Carr (November 30, 1906 - February 27, 1977) was a prolific American-born author of detective stories who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries, complex, plot-driven stories in which the puzzle is paramount. Most of his many novels and short stories feature the elucidation, by an eccentric detective, of apparently impossible, and seemingly supernatural, crimes. He was influenced in this regard by the works of Gaston Leroux and by the Father Brown stories of G. K. Chesterton. Carr modeled his major detective, the fat and genial lexicographer Dr. Gideon Fell, on Chesterton.

-Basil instantly recognizes the two jailed prisoners as Big Tuppy and Young Russmer, the only two members of Ratigan's gang he hadn't captured.

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-Disguised as a plump gypsy peddler/smuggler, Basil enters the cell to try and get information on Ratigan's whereabouts.

Basil in disguise, with Big Tuppy and Russmer.

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-The question is: How did Ratigan know that Basil was in disguise, talking to his gang? He must have an informant on the inside of the Kasedorf police department.

Chapter 5: Missing- Flora and Fauna!

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-"Methinks I smell a rat... - a rat named Ratigan!" :

Basil is being euphemistic. It is quite clear from the texts that Ratigan is a mouse.

In the Disney movie The Great Mouse Detective Ratigan is portrayed as a rat trying desperately to convince the world that he is a mouse. It is implied that Ratigan's evil is a result of his being unable to fit into mouse society.

-The method by which Basil examines the room was learned from Holmes. Holmes is certainly one of the first forensic detectives.

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-In another nod to Holmes as tutor Basil estimates the height of the writer of the note based on the height of the writing.

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-"It resembles an eye chart." : Dawson immediately thinks like a doctor.

-"...cipher, or code, as it is often erroneously termed.": In non-technical usage, a "(secret) code" is the same thing as a cipher. Within technical discussions, however, they are distinguished into two concepts. Codes work at the level of meaning -that is, words or phrases are converted into something else. Ciphers, on the other hand, work at a lower level: the level of individual letters, small groups of letters, or, in modern schemes, individual bits. Some systems used both codes and ciphers in one system, using superencipherment to increase the security.

Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers, and coding had its own terminology, analogous to that for ciphers: "encoding, codetext, decoding" and so on. However, codes have a variety of drawbacks, including susceptibility to cryptanalysis and the difficulty of managing a cumbersome codebook. Because of this, codes have fallen into disuse in modern cryptography, and ciphers are the dominant technique.

-transposition code: In classical cryptography , a transposition cipher changes one character from the plaintext to another (to decrypt the reverse is done). That is, the order of the characters is changed. Mathematically a bijective function is used on the characters' positions to encrypt and an inverse function to decrypt.

-"Writing itself is about six thousand years old." : It seems that mice developed writing just about the same time as humanity.

-"This position code dates back to 500 B.C., when it was used by generals of the Spartan army." : Though Basil is most likely correct, the actual method by which Spartans enciphered their communications is as follows. The Spartans enciphered and concealed a message by using a scytale, a special stick and belt. The encipherer would wrap the belt around the stick and write a message on it. The belt was then unwound from the stick and sent to another person. Using a stick of similar size, the decipherer would wrap the belt around the stick to watch the secret message appear. If a stick of the wrong size was used, the message would be scrambled.

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-"Spartan to you, but Greek to me." : A weak joke: Spartans are Greeks.

-The code is revealed to be merely the message written backwards. It is simple to decode because it is merely a taunt.

-"Beast! Brute! Bully!"

-"Cur! Coward! Cad!"

-Rogue! Rascal! Ruffian!"

This is another example of the kind of wordplay that intelligent mice often engage in.

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Basil tracks Ratigan.

-Basil shows himself to be an expert tracker, following a trail of muddy footprints and a thread to the location of the Faversham sisters.

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Basil and Dr. Dawson rescue the Faversham sisters.

-Mt. Emmentaler: Named by the mice for a kind of Swiss cheese, it is, "The mountain no mouse has yet conquered!" Stands 9,000 feet tall.

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Chapter 6: Events at the Englischer Hof

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-Maestro Vincenzo Starretti: In keeping with Eve Titus changing the names of mouse characters in these stories we have here a famous mouse conductor named for Vincent Starrett.

-Basil is a past president of the ISMM.

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-Chief Indian Computer: In 1852 the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India measured Everest's elevation as 29,002 feet above sea level. This figure remained the officially accepted height for more than one hundred years. In 1955 the height of the mountain was adjusted to 29,028 feet.

The mountain received its official name in 1865 in honor of Sir George Everest, the British Surveyor General from 1830-1843 who had mapped the Indian subcontinent. He had some reservations about having his name bestowed on the peak, arguing that the mountain should retain its local appellation, the standard policy of geographical societies.

-Theodolites are still used today for ultra high precision optical alignment and measurement. Theodolites are instruments for measuring both horizontal and vertical angles, as used in triangulation networks. They consist of a telescope mounted movably within two perpendicular axes, the horizontal or trunnion axis, and the vertical axis.

-"As Everest is to man- Emmentaler is to mice..." : Actually, in comparing the heights of mice to the height of men, and comparing the heights of the two mountains, Emmentaler is 4.5X as high to mice as Everest is to men.

-Relda: famous mouse soprano, the Irene Adler of the mouse world. A beauty, her fur is flecked with gold.

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-Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897) was a German composer of Romantic music, who predominantly lived in Vienna, Austria. Brahms was considered by many to be the successor to Beethoven, and his first symphony was described by Hans von Below as Beethoven's tenth symphony (the nickname is still used.)

-Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 - November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. Although he died at the relatively young age of 31, he wrote some six hundred romantic songs (lieder) as well as many symphonies, sonatas, string quartets, some operas and many other works. With a natural flair for melodies and lyricism, Schubert is counted among the most gifted composers of the 19th century.

- Lakme is an opera in three acts by Leo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, based on the novel Rarahu ou Le Mariage de Loti by Pierre Loti. First performance: Opera Comique, Paris, 1883.

The story concerns a girl Lakme who lives in India with her father. She falls in love with a British man in the military service and consequently displeases her father. The Bell Song is a noted aria.

Maestro Vincenzo Starretti, Relda, and Basil.

-Basil is here able to play the flute with amazing virtuosity. He has mastered the flute in the way Holmes has mastered the violin.

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-Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is a comic operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genee. It premiËred on April 5, 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.

-Well-Tempered Yodeler: by mouse composer Antoine Cherbou.

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Basil saves Dr. Dawson from doom!

-mousetrap: Ratigan sets a mousetrap and almost ensnares Dawson. The fact that mousetraps are set by humans shows that humans regard mice as pests.

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-Basil pronounces the Mice of Kasedorf "The Kindhearted League" because of their generosity in helping Basil pursue Ratigan.

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-metal sectional ladder: Basil designed this ladder for mountain climbing some years back. Basil can now add inventor to his list of accomplishments.

-Basil decides not to let Relda accompany him on the expedition, saying the trip is for males only. He shows a Victorian and Holmesian disregard for women.

Chapter 7: Elmo the Great

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-Tillary Quinn: A Mouse New Zealander who excelled in ice-climbing, he writes crime stories as a hobby.

His name is reminiscent of Ellery Queen.

Ellery Queen was one of two brainchildren of the team of cousins, Fred Dannay and Manfred B. Lee.

Dannay and Lee entered a writing contest, envisioning a stuffed-shirt author called Ellery Queen who solved mysteries and then wrote about them. Queen relied on his keen powers of observation and deduction, being a Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson rolled into one. But just as Holmes needed his Watson- a character with whom the average reader could identify- the character Ellery Queen had his father, Inspector Richard Queen, who not only served in that function but also gave Ellery the access he needed to poke his nose into police business.

Dannay and Lee chose the pseudonym of Ellery Queen as their (first) writing moniker, for it was only natural, since the character Ellery was writing mysteries, that their mysteries should be the ones that Ellery Queen wrote. They placed first in the contest, and their first novel was accepted and published by Frederick Stokes. Stokes would go on to release over a dozen "Ellery Queen" publications.

At the beginning, "Ellery Queen" the author was marketed as a secret identity. Ellery Queen (actually one of the cousins, usually Dannay) would appear in public masked, as though he were protecting his identity. The buying public ate it up, and so the cousins did it again. By 1932 they had created "Barnaby Ross," whose existence had been foreshadowed by two comments in Queen novels. Barnaby Ross composed four novels about aging actor Drury Lane. After it was revealed that "Barnaby Ross is really Ellery Queen," the novels were reissued bearing the Queen name. Even after the cousins' identities were disclosed, their novels continued to be published under their now-famous pseudonym.

The Expedition Mice enjoy a swim.

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-Maharajah of Bengistan: A Oriental ruler, once Basil's roommate at Ratcliffe. Has a palace in Asia. His private zoo has midget monkeys.

His name is reminiscent of Sherlockian scholar Nathan Bengis.

-Lord Adrian: world explorer, usually wears a red carnation. He postponed matters pertaining to his father's estate for a chance to be on Basil's Expedition. Basil appoints him the expedition's Historian.

His name is reminiscent of Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle. (See Note in the Annotated Basil of Baker Street page.)

-midget monkeys: captured and placed in the Maharajah's zoo.

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-Young Richard: American mathematician from Davenport, Iowa. Already a famous rock climber.

-Howard the Geologist: The name is reminiscent of Arthur David Howard (1906 - 1986) His first name is given as Arthur in Basil and the Pygmy Cats.

Dr. Howard was born in New York City, the son of Louis Howard, a journalist, and his wife Lena. He was educated at New York University and Columbia University, working his way through school by playing the banjo with orchestras. From Columbia he obtained a Ph.D. in 1937, writing a thesis on the origin of the Yellowstone Canyon, in which he displayed the ability to decipher intricate details of landscape formation that became the leitmotif of his professional career. He taught at New York University from 1932 to 1941, then during the war joined the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and assisted in the preparation of aeronautical and submarine charts. Later in the war he transferred to the Office of Strategic services, in which he became head of the Research Intelligence Branch in three Chinese cities, Kunming, Xian, and Beijing. For his work in China he was awarded the Emblem for Meritorious Civilian Service.

On returning to the United States he joined the U.S. Geological Survey, with which he was associated in various capacities for many years. An early assignment was participation in the Fourth Byrd Expedition to Antarctica, during which, despite a season of unusually inclement weather, he was able to study details of the conversion of snow into glacial ice and to devise a technique for bringing back thin sections of ice for later intensive study under more comfortable conditions. His work in Antarctica brought him the Congressional Antarctic Medal in 1970. Later activity with the Survey was devoted largely to the Missouri Basin Development Project, for which he spent many summers of field work on the glaciated landscape of eastern Montana and western North Dakota.

On coming to Stanford in 1948, Dr. Howard was accompanied by his wife, Julia Salter, whom he had married the previous year. Faculty colleagues and former students will long remember Julie as a gracious hostess for many pleasant evenings at the Howards' home on these occasions. Art was a convivial host, showing his considerable talent as humorist and raconteur.

As a teacher, Dr. Howard won top marks among his students for his ability to communicate directly with his audience, for the clarity of his presentations, for his remarkable ability to sketch complex relationships with a few strokes of chalk on the blackboard, for his puckish sense of humor, and for his willingness to devote much time to student problems. He continued to teach at Stanford after his retirement in 1971, then in 1977 moved to North Carolina where he served for an additional two years as Visiting Professor at North Carolina State University.