512 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Many other publications, large and small (over eighty titles) exhibit 

 his great industry and keen interest in his chosen field; this also 

 included studies and classification of ore-deposits. 



As President of the University for fifteen years Van Hise found 

 new scope for his great energy and broad scope, conducting the affairs 

 of that great institution with executive capacity and fruitful initiative, 

 but he could no longer find the time for such monumental geological 

 work. The public aspects of geological problems now interested him ; 

 he was for ten years a member of the National Conservation Com- 

 mission, and his book on the " Conservation of the Natural Resources 

 of the United States" is well known; in many other ways he per- 

 formed public services, both before and during the War. 



Van Hise had an impressive personality; he was a clear and force- 

 ful speaker, and always ready to discuss questions which interested 

 him, with a great store of field and laboratory facts and a keen logical 

 mind, seasoned by a touch of humor and an attractive straightforward- 

 ness. He was the leader of his generation in the field of pre-Cambrian 

 geology. 



Fellow of this Academy since 191 1 and a member of the National 

 Academy and many other scientific societies. 



John E. Wolff. 



FREDERIC REMSEN HUTTON (1853-1918) 



Fellow in Class I, Section 4, 1893 



Frederic Remsen Hutton, son of the Rev. Dr. Mancius Smedes 

 Hutton, a w^ell-known clergyman, and of Gertrude Holmes Hutton, was 

 born in New York City on May 28, 1853. He prepared in a private 

 school and then entered Columbia College, graduating with the de- 

 gree of A. B. in 1873. He then entered the School of Mines and 

 in 1876 received the degrees of C.E., E.M., and A.M. The degree of 

 Ph.D. was conferred on him by Columbia in 1882, and the degree of 

 Sc.D in 1904. 



His teaching career began in 1877, when he received the appoint- 

 ment of instructor in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia Uni- 

 versity — the first appointment in that field at that institution; he 



