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shadow the most modern developments of geological thought. 

 In 1 917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. 



On the rise of Geography to the status of an independent 

 science he took a keen interest in its development, was 

 President of the Geographical Association in 1919 and of 

 the Irish Geographical Association from its establishment 

 in 1919 till 1922. His lectures and addresses in this 

 capacity will be long remembered by those who have 

 heard or read them as stimulating in the extreme and 

 coloured by a delicate play of the imagination such as few 

 scientific men can bring to the popularisation of their 

 subject. One of them entitled " The Clearing " cannot 

 fail to live as a gem of literary exposition. 



An intimate association extending over many years has 

 given the present writers the opportunity of realising and 

 appreciating some very lovable features of a character 

 whose outer brilliance and polish served but to cloak the 

 man within. Most noteworthy of all was perhaps his 

 intellectual courage — his refusal to gloss over the unpleasant 

 facts of hfe by the use of any sophistry. He faced the 

 world undaunted and interpreted it in the hght of reason. 

 Side by side with this scientific attitude, how^ever, he 

 cultivated and cherished a poetic faculty of no mean order, 

 which found expression only seldom, but always with 

 remarkable effect. Some of his poems show a rare 

 appreciation of the beauty of nature and a dehcacy of 

 touch which one finds but rarely nowadays among the 

 votaries of science. He owed much of this delightful 

 faculty to his early training, but even more perhaps to his 

 wife, whose mental vitality and classic culture gave them 

 a bond of interest that became a very potent factor in 

 influencing his development. One does not know whether 

 to admire most in Cole his subtlety of mind, his wide 

 intellectual outlook or the indomitable spirit which he 

 displayed to the end — the spirit of Browning's Grammarian — 

 " Still with the throttling pains of death at strife 

 Ground he at grammar." 



On his very deathbed he made plans for future activities, 

 new books to write, new doctrines to teach, new schemes 



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