858 ISRAEL COOK RUSSELL. 



Mount St. Elias and its piedmont glaciers. Thus his studies in the 

 igneous rocks of the Newark formation, into the activities of Mount 

 Pelee, the Snake River and other volcanic regions of the great West, 

 gave him opportunities to add materially to our knowledge of igneous 

 geology, while his explorations in Alaska, the northwestern United 

 States and Michigan, made him one of the authorities in glacial 

 geology. 



He was, as C. A. Davis says, a delightful story teller if drawn out, 

 brilliant and witty, so that his speeches at the early dinners of the 

 Geological Society of America, and the passages at arms between him 

 and Emerson shine in the writer's memory, yet he was not a man of 

 manv words. Phvsicalh- he seemed small and slender for one who had 

 proved himself an intrepid explorer, and is another illustration of the 

 fact that much may be done by one of small size. His civic public 

 spirit was shown by his careful report on the water supply of Ann 

 Arbor. He held the academic distinctions which one might expect; 

 he was President of the Michigan Academy of Science, Chairman of 

 Section E of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, was President of the Geological Society of America at the 

 time of his death, May 1, 1906, and was honorary Doctor of Laws of 

 New York and Wisconsin Universities. He was married Nov. 27, 

 1886, to J. Augusta Olmsted and by her had four children, three 

 daughters, Ruth, Helen, Edith, and a son, Ralph. Ruth was grad- 

 uated with the degree of A.B. from the University of Michigan in 

 1910, and subsequently married and now resides in Salt Lake City. 

 Helen also married and lives in Chicago. 



Alfred C. Lane. 



