should be put in operation in September 1905, and immediately began 

 scouring the country for promising young men, as some sixty new 

 appointments were to be made. I was, at last, authorized to offer a 

 position to Professor Smyth, of Hamilton College, as I had long desired 

 to do. To Smyth and van Ingen, far more than to me, has been due the 

 very gratifying growth and development of the Geological Department 

 and, especially of the graduate work. Most of the advanced students in 

 geology have come in order to work under Smyth. He sent out a 

 stream of well equipped young men, who have gained high rank in 

 their profession. His own frailty of health was a tragedy, as it prevented 

 his carrying out the investigations which he desired and was so well 

 fitted to make. 



While in Cambridge the summer before, I had heard of the proposed 

 meeting of the British Association in South Africa in 1905, but had 

 forgotten it. I was therefore equally pleased and surprised by an invita- 

 tion to join the "official party," having all my expenses paid, except the 

 round voyage between America and England. This most liberal offer 

 made it almost as cheap to join the great excursion as to stay at home, 

 and I thankfully accepted it. At the Commencement of that year, I met 

 a pleasant, well mannered young German, who was evidently a man of 

 wealth and with whom I had considerable conversation. He interested 

 me greatly as a living demonstration of the revolutionary change that 

 had come over the Germany that I knew. He told me that his father and 

 brother were in a syndicate with Prince Hohenlohe for building sana- 

 toria in Madeira and that one of them had resigned a professorship in 

 the University of Berlin to go into this business. In my day, such a step 

 as a professor's turning Kaufmann would have been inconceivable. He 

 also very kindly offered to have instructions sent to their people in 

 Madeira to look after me. I supposed that this was merely a polite 

 gesture and thought no more of it, but, when I landed on the island, 

 feeling very wretched and ill, I found that the instructions had been 

 actually sent and they were very serviceable to me. 



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