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intense and infectious enthusiasm; with a mind original, singularly 
active, and well stored; with a judgment trained by wide experience in 
travel and observation, and in the management of men; accustomed to 
refined and exact scientific inquiry, he was a great acquisition to Columbia 
College, and could not but become, as he did, an important factor in its 
orderly expansion. He was always loyally devoted to the best interests 
of the school with which he connected himself. His influence was 
strongly felt in the enlargement and enrichment of its courses of study, 
in the formation and extension of its scope. His counsel was wise, and 
he had the confidence and the profound esteem of his colleagues. His 
pupils held him in most affectionate regard, and many of them he 
inspired with an enduring love of learning and research. In his large, 
unique and admirably arranged collections, he was incomparable. His 
especial field as a teacher was in the higher regions of his science, and 
with advanced students. He was rarely qualified by nature and accom- 
plishment to be, as he was, a great university professor. 
Very truly yours, 
J. H. VAN AMRINGE. 
INO: TY: 
Letter from Professor Epwarp Orton, the present State 
Geologist of Ohio, especially with reference to Dr. Newserry’s 
connection with the earlier Ohio Survey : 
CoLtumBus, O., February 17, 1893. 
My DEAR PROFES3OR KEMP—I am glad to join with the members of 
the New York Academy of Science in paying a tribute of affection and 
respect to the memory of Dr. Newberry. I knew him well, and was 
closely associated with him for a number of years in a work which lay 
near his heart, viz. : the Geological Survey of Ohio. 
A geological survey of Ohio was begun under favorable auspices in 
1837, but it was brought to an abrupt termination in 1839, mainly because 
of the financial condition of the State at that time. 
From this date forward, all the friends of the science in the State 
looked to a resumption of the work of the Survey, and many efforts to 
bring about such a result were made which proved fruitless. It was left 
to Dr. Newberry to draft a bill in 1869, which was passed by the Legisla- 
ture, providing for a geological and natural history survey of the State. 
Governor Hayes appointed Dr. Newberry Chief of the Survey. In July 
of that year he entered upon the work. He brought to it the results of 
years of study in almost every section of the State, but particularly in 
the coal fields, He attacked the problems of correlation with enthusiasm 
and success. By the and of the season a good beginning had been made. 
The ‘Cliff Limestone” of the first survey had been resolved into its four 
