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Willamette has the most remarkable form among meteorites, and 

 the two are exceeded in size only by the Anighito iron brought by 

 Peary from Cape York, Greenland. The latter and the Willamette 

 are now in the American Museum of Natural History. 



Professor Ward was a Councillor of the Academy in 1892. 

 When in the city he was usually present at Academy meetings, 

 and the Proceedings record many addresses and exhibitions of 

 material, always to the great pleasure of his audience. He was a 

 charming raconteur. Some of his living associates tell with gusto 

 how the programs of meetings were ignored when Ward was 

 induced to talk. Yet he was modest, even timid, and the request 

 for an address or paper would cause dismay. It is very unfor- 

 tunate that he was not induced to dictate his memoirs. The story 

 of his wanderings, told by himself, would have made the most 

 readable book of travel. 



"At the age of seventy Professor Ward went to Canada, and selected a par- 

 ticularly fine rock 'specimen' to mark his last resting place. A massive 

 and shapely bowlder of jasper conglomerate was brought to Rochester, 

 erected on a prominent knoll in Mount Hope Cemetery, and his name was 

 sculptured upon its face. Except for the chiseled inscription the rock is as 

 it came from nature's workshop. This last task of the always-forehanded 

 man of science was not completed a day too soon. Thus passes from life 

 a man whose services to science, and also to unscientific millions, were 

 great, but understood and appreciated by those only who knew him best 

 and longest. 



. . . From 1870 to 1895 he was the man for the hour, the birth hour of 

 many new museums, the renaissance of old ones. He wrought with high 

 purpose; he lived to see the fruits of his genius and his labors; and in his 

 peculiar field he leaves no understudy." 



H. L. Fairchild. 



GROVE KARL GILBERT 

 (Read before the Academy, June 24, 1918.) 



Dr. Gilbert was one of the most eminent geologists of the world, 

 and as he was a native of Rochester and an honorary member of 

 this society the Rochester Academy of Science has special pride 

 in his life and work. 



Dr. Gilbert was born in Rochester, May 6, 1843. His father was 

 the well-known portrait painter, Grove Shelden Gilbert. An older 



