ABSTRACT
The beginning of Davis’ teaching career soon suffered an interruption, and it is a measure of the more leisurely academic atmosphere which prevailed a century ago that in 1877 he was able to take a year off to tour the world. Thomas Mott Osborne, of Auburn, New York, the grandson of a Martha Coffin and some ten years Davis’ junior, was of a sickly disposition aggravated by attacks of chronic catarrh. He had been advised to take a world tour for his health before going to University, and his cousin W. M. Davis was chosen to accompany him. Osborne subsequently entered Harvard in 1880, became the Warden of ‘Sing Sing’ Prison and a noted prison reformer (Chamberlain, 1936). In the light of this future career, it is interesting that Davis referred to him on one occasion during the tour as ‘Judge’ Osborne (see pp. 104–5).
