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Natural History Survey of Minnesota, he published many pa- 

 pers in rapid succession on the fauna of the state and began an 

 extensive report, the first volume of which was completed in 

 1885. This was a large quarto on the Mammals of Minnesota,, 

 fully illustrated with many colored plates and pen drawings. 

 It was accepted for publication, but for lack of funds in the 

 Survey never saw the light. Years afterwards, in 1892, a small 

 octavo was published by the Survey made up of the more pop- 

 ular parts of this work. The remainder is still buried in the 

 vaults of the Survey in Minneapolis, The season of 1881-2 

 was spent at the University of Leipzig, and in 1883 he was 

 married to Miss Alice Keith of Minneapolis. This, roughly, 

 may be said to constitute the first period of his life, from 1858 

 to 1884. 



He was called to the chair of Geology and Natural History 

 of Denison University in the summer of 1884. He spent the 

 fall of that year at Denison, then returned to Minneapolis to 

 complete the work in progress in the Minnesota Survey, and in 

 the fall of 1885 moved with his family to Granville. Meanwhile, 

 in 1885, he took the degree of M.S. from his alma mater. It had 

 been his intention to continue his zoological work, and there 

 was great activity in this line during the entire period, but the 

 routine excursions made in the course of the instruction of his 

 geology classes showed him so much of interest in the local 

 strata that his chief labors while in Granville were upon the 

 fossils and stratigraphy of the Waverly free stones and shales 

 of Ohio. This work was abruptly cut short by his removal 

 from Granville in 1889 and, while never rounded out as he 

 would have liked, is probably his most important geological 

 work. In 1885 he founded the Bulletin of the Scientific La- 

 boratories of Denison University, in which the greater part of 

 his researches, and those of his pupils, on Ohio geology were 

 published. 



His phenomenal success as a teacher during this and the 

 subsequent periods was due to factors, some of which are easily 

 seen — others are harder to define. After his attractive personal 

 qualities and magnetic enthusiasm, I should place his deep philo- 



