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the chronology of the human race supposed to be given in the 

 Bible. This subject is discussed in his Studies in Science and 

 Religion (Andover, 1882) and Divine Authority of the Bible 

 (Boston, 1884), and is dismissed in the book on the Ice Age with a 

 reference to those works as containing all that it seems to be 

 necessary for him to say on the point, and with the additional 

 remark that " I see no reason why these views should seriously 

 disturb the religious faith of any believer in the inspiration of 

 the Bible. At all events, it is incumbent on us to welcome the 

 truth, from whatever source it may come." The summer of 1890 

 was spent by Prof. Wright in the lava fields of Idaho and Cali- 

 fornia, in careful investigations and verification of the evidences 

 of man's antiquity recently found there, of which mention has 

 just been made. 



In the summer of 1891 Prof. Wright visited Europe, where 

 his fame as a specialist in glacial geology had gone before him. 

 Meeting the British geologists, he was warmly received by them, 

 and was able to give them, through conclusions drawn from his 

 American studies, information and light concerning the glacia- 

 tion of their own islands and to bring about a satisfactory set- 

 tlement of questions that had been in controversy among them. 

 The results of his additional studies in Europe were given in an 

 article in the American Journal of Science for January, 1892, and 

 are more fully stated in his volume in the International Scientific 

 Series, on Man and the Glacial Period, just published by D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co. In the winter of 1891-92 Prof. Wright gave a 

 second course of lectures in the Lowell Institute, to uniformly 

 large audiences. 



A movement has been set on foot among the alumni of 

 Oberlin College living in Cleveland, Ohio, to endow a chair in 

 that institution to be known as the Cleveland Professorship in 

 Oberlin College of the Relation between Science and Revelation, 

 which shall first be held by Prof. Wright. The call of the com- 

 mittee in charge of this enterprise mentions as a motive inspiring 

 it the desire to enlarge and extend the work of the college in the 

 direction of scientific investigation and instruction, and adds : 

 " There are strong local and personal reasons relating to Prof. 

 Wright's position and future work which urge immediate action 

 in this matter. His ability and faithful services for many years 

 in the department of New Testament Literature are appreciated. 

 But there are other men, it may be, who can do this work as well 

 as he ; while, unquestionably, there is a field which he has made 

 peculiarly his own, and which he is qualified, by tastes, studies, 

 original researches, and authorship, still further to enrich and 

 adorn. He has gathered facts from a wide range of investigation 

 and proposed and proved theories which make him an authority 



