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Professor Bouton was preeminently a teacher. Whether he were engaged in steering a Freshman section through the rocks and shoals that beset the approach to analytic geometry, or in guiding a graduate student in his research, he had an unerring instinct for picking out what was essential and vital, to the exclusion of the trivial and unimportant. His mathematical judgment was unerring, his advice on scientific questions was absolutely sound. No pains were too great to be expended on any student, his pupils had always the first claim to his time, and no one who applied in him for aid was even sent empty away.
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