address. No record of his platform performance has been found, 
but it is well known that he was always sought for public addresses on 
all kinds of occasions, both in his home town and far away. Within 
a few months of his death he spoke to a learned audience for an hour 
perfectly logically and without notes. He seemed to have the faculty 
of marshalling in his public addresses a wealth of information, all 
organized and laid away for any sudden emergency. While not eloquent, 
he spoke with convincing directness and clearness. His hearers knew 
he was thoroughly convinced of what he said. He never trifled with 
an audience, but took them fully into his confidence. 
As an author and publisher Mr. Wright achieved more than many 
men who do nothing else. His published papers number some five 
hundred and fifty and his volumes sixteen, some of which were trans- 
lated into foreign languages, and at least one copyrighted in England. 
His ‘Ice Age in North America” has been through six editions and is 
considered a standard work in its field. Other books have been through 
more than one edition. His “‘Story of My Life and Work,” published 
in 1916, sums up many of the conclusions in science and theology which 
he had reached through his years of study and thought. It also gives 
a fairly complete bibliography of his papers, the first of which is entitled 
“Ground of Confidence in Inductive Reasoning,” and appeared in 1871, 
when he was thirty-three years old. But four titles more appear in 
the next four years; then they come faster, and eight or ten, sometimes 
fifteen a year flow from his facile pen. Not a year passed but saw 
papers or book reviews added to his voluminous bibliography, and the 
last paper was prepared during his last sickness, which was on him 
for some thirty days. 
Beside the papers and books which he prepared for the press himself, 
he was editor and really the life and heart of the magazine ‘‘ Bibliotheca 
Sacra”’ for thirty-eight years, beginning in 18838. In the year 1900, he 
with two or three other men in Washington founded a second magazine, 
“Records of the Past,’? which continued for twelve years, and then 
after the publication of a very complete index, was merged in another 
magazine. 
In music, too, he had an active interest. A member of the Oberlin 
Musical Union for almost forty years, he sang in many oratorio concerts. 
He brought back and put into shape for American use a number of 
Russian songs, and was one of three active editors for a very excellent 
church hymnal. 
A cursory glance through the list of his papers reveals the marvelous 
range of his studies—apologetics, religion, theology and philosophy, 
politics, history, and biography, commerce, geography, travel, and 
aesthetics, besides his two great fields of glaciology and archeology. 
Some of his papers were conciliatory, some controversial; a few were 
critical, most of them constructive. 
Professor Wright was fraternal in spirit and delighted in the fellow- 
ship and stimulus of co-workers, yet he has never amassed memberships 
in learned societies. His affiliations were as follows: 
