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Born in Deposit, Delaware county, N. Y., March 9, 
1829, educated under parental direction, in the academies 
of Westfield and Fredonia, N. Y., and in Hamilton College, 
from which he graduated in 1848, he served as a professor 
of natural sciences or of his chosen one, geology, from 
1856 until his death on October 16, 1899. It was his portion 
to have lived and to have been a science teacher throughout 
the period of conflicting opinions regarding the value of 
science in educational affairs, which may be said to have 
been ushered into the world, for our century at least, about 
the beginning of his professional career; it was likewise 
his good fortune to see his own high estimates of the value 
of the teachings and method of science accepted in the 
world of thought. Though we can little realize, in our 
day of science accepted and honored both in educational 
affairs and in the various departments of investigation, the 
heated controversies of the earlier period, we may honor 
ourselves by grateful tribute to his high attainments and 
the great good he has done in the world by his life and 
labors. 
Some of us were his pupils, and add the personal 
offering to that of scientists; we cherish the recollections 
of the class room and the rich friendship this opportunity 
gave us. 
As members of the Ohio State Academy of Science, 
assembled in annual meeting in Columbus, his late home, 
we join in these humble expressions of our appreciation 
of the character and services of Professor Edward Orton 
and in recording our personal bereavement. 
A.D: SEUBY: 
J. A. BowNOCKER, 
Committee. 
