714 MEMOIR OF GUYOT. 



down in English. He writes iu 18S2 to his Swiss friend, M. F. Godet:* 

 " Que ne don uerais-je pas pour avoir la facilite d'ecrire et de dieter ! Mais 

 cette malheureuse langue, qui n'est pas la mieune, est un obstacle tou- 

 jonrs reuaissant. La phrase m'entrave et me coute dix fois plus que les 

 id^es." That Guyot understood the language well is evident from his 

 memoirs of Eitter and Agassiz, and his tribute to Humboldt, as well as 

 from his scientific papers. 



Besides the geographical works already mentioned, Guyot was the 

 author of the Treatise on Physical Geography in Johnson's Family 

 Atlas of the World, and editor, with President Barnard, of Johnson's 

 New Universal Encyclopedia, iu which are several papers by him on geo- 

 graphical and other subjects. His school atlases and geographies re- 

 ceived the medal of progress at the Vienna Exposition in 1873, and the 

 gold medal, the highest honor awarded, at Paris in 1878. 



In 1854 Guyot received an appointment to the professorship of Phys- 

 ical Geography and Geology at Princeton, then established for him on 

 an endowment from one who had learned to admire him as a Christian 

 philosopher, Mr. Daniel Price, of Newark, New Jersey,t and in 1855 he 

 removed with his family from Cambridge to Princeton, where he found 

 his tastes, his social instincts, his desires to impart ideas as well as ac- 

 quire them, all fully gratified. To the duties of his professorship he 

 permitted himself to add other educational work, becoming and continu- 

 ing for several years lecturer on physical geography in the State normal 

 school at Trenton, and from 1861 to 18G6 lecturer extraordinary iu the 

 Princeton Theological Seminary, on the Connection of Eevealed Re- 

 ligion and Physical and Ethnological Science, and also giving courses 

 of lectures for a time in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 

 and in connection with a university course in Columbia College, New 

 York. At the Smithsonian Institution he delivered a course of five 

 lectures in 1853 on the Harmonies of Nature and History, and in 1862 

 six lectures on the Unity of Plan in the System of Life, as previously 

 mentioned. 



Besides class instruction at Princeton, Guyot did important work for 

 the college in the establishment of a museum. He found nothing there 

 of the kind, but by effort at home and while on a trip to Europe, and 

 with the aid of students inspired by him, and the generosity of friends, 

 the museum became, under his care, rich both paleontologically and 

 ethnographically, and in foreign as well as American specimens. It 

 derives special interest, moreover, from possessing, through his gift, 

 the five thousand rock specimens collected in his study of the erratic 

 phenomena of the Alps which he brought with hira to the country. The 

 specimens are so displayed in cases that, in connection with maps in 

 the room, they teach "the extent, thickness, limits, and courses of the 



* Mr. Faure's biographical sketch, p. 39. 



tWith the consent of Mr. Price, this chair was subsequently fully endowed by and 

 named for Mr. John J. Blair, of New Jersey. 



