IOWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 11 



IN MEMORIAM 



PROFESSOR SAMUEL CALVIN. 



Professor Samuel Calvin, Professor of Geology in the State University of 

 Iowa, and senior fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science, was born in Wigton- 

 shire, Scotland, February 2, 1840. He departed this life on the morning of 

 April 17, 1911. 



It is fitting that this Academy should spread upon its records some expression 

 of appreciation of our late colleague, both as a fellow-worker in Science and 

 as a man among men, and the minute here appearing is prepared by vote of 

 the Academy. 



Professor Calvin entered the Academy in 1876 and his name appears as 

 that of active member or fellow in every volume of our proceedings published 

 since. His name also appears with those of the group of men active in 1887 

 in organizing the Academy upon its present prosperous basis. He has contrib- 

 uted to every volume of our proceedings; his papers fill our pages and we 

 can but deplore that such a record of industry and productiveness is forever 

 closed. 



As a fellow of the Academy, Professor Calvin was distinguished at once by 

 his earnestness and his generosity; his papers were always presented with con- 

 fidence indeed, but with an unassuming modesty that won for him the sympathy 

 and the affection of his colleagues. He was generous in the extreme. Having 

 by virtue of his connection with the state survey the disposal of the research 

 work of Iowa, he freely assigned it to any who would attempt such enterprise, 

 always attributing at last to every author, every fraction of accomplished work 

 even though effected under his own immediate personal direction. 



He was State Geologist from the establishment of the survey to the time 

 of his death, with the exception of two years during which he laid aside the 

 responsibility on account of the pressure of other duties. It was his to give 

 shape, proportion and character to the work. He combined its scientific and 

 economic phases in such a way as to give great satisfaction to all the varied 

 interests involved. 



Professor Calvin easily ranked among the foremost educators of the state. 

 He was a natural teacher. He loved the work and so identified himself with, 

 the interests of his pupils that they promptly recognized their opportunity 

 as a high privilege and rarely did he fail to raise even the most unresponsive 

 to a higher plane of appreciation and endeavor. The intellectual and moral 

 elements of a true manhood were so admirably mingled and proportioned in 

 him that his pupils and friends as well felt in his presence a tonic influence, 

 a wholesome stimulus to better things. His pupils, wherever they may be 



