Henry Harrisse died on 13 May 1910; according to the dictates of his will, his body was cremated, and there were no obsequies, no death notices, and no mourning. He had requested that his ashes not be collected, but French law required their interment, and they were buried in an unmarked urn at Père-Lachaise in Paris. So ended the life of the historian-bibliographer of American exploration and discovery, a life that was devoted to intellectual debate and controversy but also characterized in the later years by a largely self-imposed loneliness and isolation. Almost five months after his death, a brief notice appeared in the American Historical Review. The anonymous author wrote for Harrisse a most fitting epitaph: "His fame was deserved by exactness of scholarship and unusual range in the search of materials, but was perhaps heightened by controversies to which his outspokenness and pungency of expression gave...