grown man, laying aside all magisterial airs. Once, in reply to a eulogy 

 upon Dr. Guyot which I pronounced, he said: "That's all very true, 

 but Guyot has never trained a geologist." That remark often recurred 

 to me, when I had become Dr. Guyot's successor and was subjected to 

 the same criticism. In both cases the explanation was the same, that 

 the system then in vogue at Princeton made the training of a geologist 

 an exceedingly difficult undertaking. In the last twenty-five years we 

 have trained a great many. 



We extended our journey as far as Howe's Cave, which we explored, 

 a novel experience for all of us. We also collected a good many fos- 

 sils, some of them fine specimens, and chiefly from the Silurian lime- 

 stones. Then we retraced our steps and separated to our respective 

 homes. 



Almost as soon as college opened in September and we began our 

 career as "grave, old Seniors," we started to carry out our plans for the 

 Western expedition and the first step was to create as wide a basis of 

 interest as possible by talking the matter up among the Juniors and 

 Seniors. Our propaganda, as it would be called nowadays, was very 

 successful and that encouraged us to form a "Natural Science Asso- 

 ciation," which held weekly meetings, at which papers were read by 

 the members. I was elected president and this was the sole honour con- 

 ferred on me by my fellow students, as mentioned on a previous page. 

 The attendance and interest were maintained throughout the year, as 

 we proposed that members of the expedition should be selected by 

 competitive examination. 



At this time, I was an ardent anti-evolutionist, enough so to have 

 endeared me to the heart of Mr. Bryan. My Grandfather had written 

 a little book called What is Darwinism? which he put through the 

 press in the autumn of 1874 and I had begun my apprenticeship in 

 bookmaking by reading the proofs of that book. My Grandfather's 

 answer to his own question was that Darwinism was Atheism. Natu- 

 rally, I shared his conviction, as I should have accepted any opinion 

 of his. The book was savagely attacked by many scientific men and 

 Professor Asa Gray, the eminent botanist, criticized it in more tem- 

 perate language. All this made no impression on the old gentleman 

 and, as to Gray's criticism he merely said: "Gray admits that I have 

 stated Darwin's position fairly, I don't care about the rest." In the dis- 

 cussion which raged among us over Darwin, my dogmatic way of talk- 

 ing and hot polemics earned me the nickname of "Huxley," which I 



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