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receipt; my amour propre was wounded. But during the nearly 

 fifty years that have passed since that day I have many, many 

 times regretted that I had not always followed his example. 



Associated with Newberry, Orton, W'ormley and Les- 

 quereux in the State Geological Survey was Professor E. B. 

 Andrews, a scion of New England stock, born at Danbury, Con- 

 necticut in 1821. He was a student at Williams College and 

 also at r^Iarietta College, graduating from the Ohio institution 

 in 1842. He studied theology at Princeton and after preaching 

 for several years returned to Marietta in 1850 as professor of 

 geology. Seventeen years later, in 1869. he was appointed 

 Assistant Geologist in the newly organized geological survey of 

 Ohio, under Dr. Newberry. He contributed numerous papers 

 on geological subjects to the American Journal of Science, and 

 full reports of his work on the state survey are to be found in 

 the volumes issued annually by that organization. Besides being 

 an able geologist. Professor Andrews was possessed of a rich 

 store of knowledge relating to other departments of science, as 

 well as literature and art. He was blessed with a keen sense 

 of humor and was a worthy member of that coterie of scientific 

 men by whom the intellectual life of Columbus was greatly en- 

 riched during the '"seventies" of the last century. 



There are two eminent astronomers whom I should much 

 like to include in my list of pioneers, though I fear that one of 

 them did not reside in the state long enough to justify me in so 

 doing. In the early years of two or three of the older of our 

 Ohio colleges they served as training schools for young pro- 

 fessors who were subsequently called to the older institutions 

 of the East. Notable in this respect was Western Resen^e Col- 

 lege during the years it was located at Hudson. To this in- 

 stitution located in a small village, literally in the "back woods of 

 Ohio" came in the year 1838, Elias Loomis, an alumnus of Yale 

 College, recently returned from Europe where he had studied 

 with the great astronomers of that day, to assume the duties 

 of professor of mathematics and natural pholosophy. He had 

 brought with him from Paris a considerable collection of phil- 

 osophical instruments including the necessary equipment of a 



