PROFESSOR LEWIS EZRA HICKS, A.M. 



Professor Hicks was born at Kalida, Putnam County, Ohio, 

 March lo, 1839. He had not yet completed his college education 

 when the War of the Rebellion began, but he fought in the Union 

 army during the whole four years, serving as Lieutenant Colonel in the 

 69th O. V. I. After the close of the war, he completed his 

 college course at Denison, doing some teaching as an Assistant 

 in the Preparatory Department at the same time and graduating 

 with the A. B. degree in the class of 1868. During the following year 

 he remained as a Tutor in the Classics. He then went to Harvard for 

 a year to pursue special work in Zoology and Geology, where he had 

 the good fortune to be a student under Louis Agassiz. 



In 1870, he came back to Denison as Professor of Natural Sci- 

 ences, and remained until 1884, when he resigned to accept the chair 

 of Geology in the University of Nebraska. During the last two years 

 of his service at Denison, the title of his Professorship was changed to 

 Geology and Natural History, in view of the endowment of a chair of 

 Chemistry and Physics, by the Chisholms, of Cleveland. Professor 

 Hicks retained his chair in the University of Nebraska until 1891, and 

 during a portion of this time was also connected with the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, as Assistant Geologist. He was a member 

 and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence; a member of the American Society of Irrigation Engineers; one 

 of the founders of the Geological Society of America, and a Fellow of 

 the same, as well as one of the founders of the American Geologist and 

 long an Associate Editor. From the 189-^ edition of the General Cat- 

 alogue of Denison University we take the following list of his contri- 

 butions to scientific literature, a list not intended to be exhaustive : 

 " Scientists and Theologians: How they Disagree, and Why," a series 

 of articles in the Baptist Quarterly Review. 1874; " A Critique of De- 

 sign Arguments," an octavo volume of 417 pages published by the 

 Scribners in 1883; "Discovery of the Cleveland Shale in Central 



