Lewis.] t)Oii ff.ct. 6, 1882. 



and a keen black eye which missed nothing within its range. He was 

 afiectionate, noble, just and generous ; a thorough gentleman, with a quick 

 and burning contempt for all shams and meanness ; a friend most kind, 

 sympathetic, helpful, and brotherly ; genial, wise and witty in conversa- 

 tion ; clear-headed, prudent and active in business ; a man of the highest 

 and most refined intellectual tastes and qualities ; a lover of art and music, 

 and also of manly sports, especially tlie hunt ; of such manual skill that 

 no mechanic in the city could do finer work than he ; in the pursuit of 

 science, able, indefatigable, indomitable, sparing neither time, labor nor 

 expense." 



"Excepting his early death. Dr. Draper was a man fortunate in all 

 things ; in his vigorous physique, his delicate senses, and skillful hand ; 

 in his birth and education ; in his Iriendships ; and especially in his mar- 

 riage, which brought to him not only wealth and all the happiness which 

 naturally comes with a lovely, true-hearted and faithful wife, but also a 

 most unusual companionship and intellectual sympathy in all his favorite 

 purstiits. He was fortunate in the great resources which lay at his dis- 

 posal, and in the wisdom to manage and use them well ; in the subjects he 

 chose for his researches and in the complete success he invariably 

 attained." 



Such a man as this it is whose name we are sorrowfully called upon to 

 strike from the roll of our living membership. Professor Draper was 

 a man among men, a scientist of the highest type. Stricken down in the 

 midst of his life-work, at the early age of 45, the bright promise of his 

 noble life is left unfulfilled. What brilliant researches in his favorite science 

 he would have made, we can never know. But with a mind so richly en- 

 dowed and so thoroughly trained, with an experimental ability as earnest 

 as it was persistent, with facilities for investigation which were as perfect 

 as tbey are rare, with abundance of time and means at his disposal, and 

 above all, with a devoted wife, who keenlj'^ appreciated the value of his 

 scientific work, was ever at his side as his trusty assistant and always 

 shared in the glory and the honor of his discoveries, we may be sure that, 

 had he been permitted to reach 'the age of his honored father, results 

 would have been reaped by his labors which would have added still 

 brighter lustre to the science of America. 



Map of the Terminal Moraine. 



On page 476 it is recorded in the minutes of the meeting, October 6, 

 1882, that Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis read a paper on the course of the 

 great Terminal Moraine through Pennsylvania, studied by him as volun- 

 teer Assistant of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and de- 

 scribed in his unpublished Report of Progress, Z, illustrated by i)hotograph 

 pictures taken by Mr. E. B. Harden, Topographical Assistant to the 

 Survey. 



