Ree SOR Neale Ie else a ae RP SAP RAR NASAL AEs ARAL TO 5 ated) 
and with G. H. Cook, of the New Jersey Geologic Survey. He traced 
the moraines and ancient ice borders across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, mostly in the eighties, and published in 1890 
Bulletin 58 of the U. 5. G. 5., summarizing his results. In later years 
he studied glaciers and the products of their work in Alaska, Greenland, 
the British Isles, Holland, Belgium, and France, and journeyed com- 
pletely across Siberia and Russia in his quest for glacial phenomena. 
These researches gave him the basal material upon which he built the 
superstructure which made him one of the first men of his age in 
glaciology. 
His field studies were not confined to the work of glaciers, for from 
the earliest to the end, he was intensely interested in the remains 
of man that he found associated with the drift. This material was 
sought and found in many places where he studied the drift itself. 
Nor did such interest and research stop with man and the drift, for he 
has been an archeologist in all his travels in Italy, Greece, Palestine, 
in the region east of the Caspian and in his long journey to Siberia, as 
well as in the classic fields of western Europe. One of his books deals 
with the ice age in North America; another, the antiquity of man, 
and a third, man and the glacial period. These two lines of research 
were inseparably connected. 
While his ministry covered but twenty years and his educational 
work technically but twenty-six, his research work covered his whole 
life. His educational work began with the district school before he 
came to college, was continued in several terms of vacation teaching 
while in college, and was taken up in his own seminary about twenty 
- years after his graduation. Many of those who were in his classes or 
knew him as a teacher speak of his kindness of heart, breadth of scholar- 
ship, and, above all, his keen interest in the students. He was always 
looking for the best in them, suggesting lines of work for which he 
thought they were adapted, and was continually rejoicing in the suc- 
cesses of young people whom he knew. 
The second professorship at Oberlin which was given to Prof. 
Wright in the seminary was established by a friend of the institution 
who stipulated that the holder should teach but half the year and 
travel the other half. It was this arrangement which opened up to Mr. 
Wright the opportunity of travel in Europe in 1892, Greenland in 1894, 
and his round-the-world trip in 1900-1901. In this latter trip, covering 
nearly 30,000 miles, he sailed from the United States west coast and 
after spending some time in Japan, visited Vladivostok and Man- 
churia, Peking and Kalgan, and made the long journey by rail across 
Siberia to Irkutsk. From here he journeyed southward and westward 
through Merv and Samarkand, crossing the Caspian to Tiflis and 
the Caucasus Mountains, and then proceeded to Constantinople, 
Palestine, Egypt and southern Europe. 
On this trip he was royally received in Japan and Russia, and gave 
a number of lectures in several places. In fact, Prof. Wright has 
always had the ability to give an entertaining, inspiring and instructive 
