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aneroid readings to the summit made the height 18,179 feet. Considerable 
collections were made by the naturalists of the party and reported in various 
journals. In April, 1892; Scovell returned to Orizaba, and by triangulation 
from the 13,000 feet level, determined its height to be 18,314, which was 
accepted by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. A rather full general report 
of results was published in Science of May 12, 1893. 
In the autumn of 1891, Scovell joined Evermann, then of the U.S. Fish 
Commission, in a study of the rivers of Texas. In 1894 he was sent by the 
Commission to study the whitefish of Lake Huron, and later assisted Ever- 
mann ina study of the spawning habits of salmon in the mountain streams 
of Idaho. About this time he did some work on the geological survey 
of Arkansas under Pranner. 
In 1894 Scovell returned to teaching as the head of the science depart- 
ment of the Terre Hautte High School, a position which he held until his 
death twenty-one vears later. 
In 1895 he contributed an elaborate report on the geo!ozy of Vigo County 
to the 21st Report of the Indiana Geological Survey, the result of twenty 
years of study in that field. He assisted Ashley in his report on the coal 
deposits of Indiana, published in 1898, and in 1905 made a report on the 
Roads and Road Materials of Western Indiana. 
In 1899 he began his work in cooperation with Evermann on the physical 
and biological survey of Lake Maxinkuckee, which was carried on for fifteen 
successive seasons. His best work was done at home in Vigo County and 
at his summer cottage on Maxinkuckee. He never wearied of the features 
and problems of his home field and returned to them with fresh interest 
whenever any one started a new question. The writer was surprised to note 
after twenty years of study of the Terre Haute field how little he could add 
to what Scovell had shown him at the beginning. 
I can best sum up the estimates of Dr. Seovell contributed by all his 
intimate colleagues and pupils, among whom I am glad to enroll myself, 
by saying that he was a naturalist rather than a speclalist in any one depart- 
ment of science. He was more deeply interested in botany than in zoology 
and his interest in plants was more ecological than taxonomic. He had the 
most complete and beautiful collection ever made of the mussels of the 
Wabash River, representing forty-seven species. He gave considerable 
attention to the Indian mounds of western Indiana, and in 1912 sent his 
notes and collections to the Bureau of Ethnology, which accepted them as 
