414 WILLIAM BULLOCK CLARK. 



He first organized the Maryland Weather SeI•^■ice and was made 

 its director. 



Then he created the Maryland Geological Sur\ey. This was the 

 work he loved best, and he published ten fine ^■olumes of its results. 

 He had Brogger of Christiania on for a course of lectures at the Uni- 

 versity, and as I had known Brogger in Norway he invited me down 

 to meet him with a few others, and just naturally commandeered the 

 Governor's steam yacht for an excursion of several days do^^ni Chesa- 

 peake Bay to study the Tertiary beds. Just as natm'ally he marched 

 his party in the middle of the morning up from the boat to call on the 

 Governor at the State House, Brogger trying to get the superabund- 

 ant Maryland mud off his boots with the peen of his hammer. We 

 were taken across to the gubernatorial mansion and treated to the 

 finest hospitality of the South, and Brogger went back to the boat 

 muttering "Mein Gott! Schnapps vor dem Mittagsessen " ! 



He then organized the Mar\^land States Roads Commission, one of 

 the pioneers in that valuable work, and later was made executive 

 officer of the State Board of Forestry. He was also Commissioner for 

 the State of the Resurvey of Mason and Dixon's line. 



He did as much for his City as for the State. 



He was on the Committee to rebuild Baltimore after the great fire; 

 on the Commission on City improvements, and on the Commission 

 to widen the streets and create a civic center for the town. He was 

 also president of the Henry Watson Children's aid Society of Balti- 

 more; member of the State Tuberculosis Association, and vice-presi- 

 dent of the Federated Charities of the City. 



He belonged to the American, English, and German Geological 

 Societies. 



He was a member of the National Academy of Science and Chairman 

 of its Geological section. 



He was an L.L.D. of Amherst College, and so efficient in the ad- 

 ministrative relations of the Johns Hopkins University that he was 

 prominently suggested for the presidency of both institutions. He 

 was a member of the Maryland Defence Council, and as a member of 

 the National Research Council organized a Committee of about 50 

 geologists and highway engineers to report with maps on materials for 

 rapid highway ctmstruction of our whole Atlantic and (iidf Coasts for 

 a hundred miles back from the seaboard. 



I undertook the work for Massachusetts and met him in Jime, of 

 1917, on a characteristic telegraphic summons, in Springfield for 

 consultation on the matter, and found him tiie same genial, cordial. 



