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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  192*7 
  

  

  Secretary 
  Walcott 
  was 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  council 
  and 
  vice 
  president 
  

   of 
  the 
  National 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences, 
  and 
  from 
  1917 
  to 
  1923 
  he 
  was 
  

   its 
  president, 
  an 
  honor 
  earned 
  by 
  his 
  scientific 
  attainments 
  and 
  an 
  

   opportunity 
  for 
  leadership 
  during 
  a 
  critical 
  period 
  that 
  called 
  for 
  

   administrative 
  skill. 
  It 
  was 
  in 
  no 
  small 
  degree 
  due 
  to 
  his 
  guidance 
  

   that 
  organized 
  science 
  received 
  so 
  large 
  a 
  meed 
  of 
  credit 
  for 
  its 
  

   patriotic 
  service. 
  The 
  beautiful 
  home 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Academy 
  and 
  

   Research 
  Council 
  also 
  embodies 
  much 
  of 
  Doctor 
  Walcott's 
  genius 
  in 
  

   planning 
  and 
  execution. 
  

  

  Academic 
  honors 
  that 
  came 
  with 
  the 
  years 
  included 
  the 
  degree 
  of 
  

   Sc, 
  D. 
  from 
  Cambridge 
  and 
  Harvard 
  Universities; 
  LL. 
  D, 
  from 
  

   Hamilton, 
  Chicago, 
  Johns 
  Hopkins, 
  Pennsylvania, 
  Yale, 
  St. 
  An- 
  

   drews, 
  and 
  Pittsburgh 
  Universities; 
  Ph. 
  D. 
  from 
  Royal 
  Frederiks 
  

   University, 
  Christiania, 
  and 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  

   York 
  ; 
  and 
  doctor 
  honoris 
  causa 
  from 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Paris. 
  Doc- 
  

   tor 
  Walcott 
  held 
  membership 
  in 
  the 
  leading 
  foreign 
  scientific 
  socie- 
  

   ties 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  those 
  at 
  home, 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  foreign 
  associate 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academic 
  cles 
  Sciences 
  of 
  the 
  Institut 
  de 
  France. 
  

  

  The 
  man 
  behind 
  the 
  career 
  is 
  what 
  counts, 
  after 
  all, 
  and 
  as 
  a 
  man 
  

   Charles 
  Doolittle 
  Walcott 
  was 
  never 
  found 
  wanting. 
  He 
  was 
  not 
  

   only 
  a 
  scientist 
  among 
  scientists 
  but 
  a 
  man 
  among 
  men. 
  His 
  was 
  a 
  

   noble 
  record 
  of 
  genial, 
  sympathetic, 
  and 
  encouraging 
  contact 
  with 
  his 
  

   fellows. 
  He 
  made 
  and 
  kept 
  friends. 
  Many 
  are 
  the 
  tributes 
  of 
  affec- 
  

   tion 
  for 
  the 
  man 
  and 
  testimonials 
  of 
  indebtedness 
  for 
  his 
  helpful 
  and 
  

   inspiring 
  fellowship 
  and 
  friendship, 
  a 
  rich 
  heritage 
  that 
  proves 
  how 
  

   well 
  he 
  invested 
  his 
  years. 
  The 
  Walcott 
  home 
  was 
  both 
  the 
  j)lace 
  of 
  

   quiet 
  and 
  happy 
  family 
  life 
  and 
  a 
  center 
  of 
  influence 
  among 
  scien- 
  

   tists 
  and 
  public 
  men. 
  Great 
  sorrow 
  came 
  in 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  his 
  wife 
  

   Helena 
  Stevens 
  Walcott, 
  and 
  later 
  of 
  two 
  of 
  their 
  sons, 
  but 
  he 
  con- 
  

   tinued 
  to 
  face 
  life 
  with 
  the 
  same 
  calm, 
  steadfast, 
  and 
  optimistic 
  spirit 
  

   and 
  met 
  his 
  multifold 
  duties 
  without 
  any 
  respite. 
  

  

  Truly, 
  Doctor 
  Walcott 
  looked 
  to 
  the 
  hills 
  for 
  strength. 
  His 
  ex- 
  

   tensive 
  researches 
  after 
  he 
  became 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  

   Institution 
  were 
  carried 
  on 
  largely 
  in 
  the 
  magnificent 
  mountain 
  coun- 
  

   try 
  of 
  British 
  Columbia 
  and 
  Alberta, 
  which 
  he 
  called 
  a 
  " 
  geologist's 
  

   paradise." 
  And 
  as 
  a 
  Avriter 
  in 
  the 
  Geological 
  Magazine 
  (London) 
  

   remarked 
  : 
  

  

  Doctor 
  Walcott 
  has 
  already 
  admitted 
  others 
  to 
  his 
  paradise 
  by 
  the 
  publica- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  beautiful 
  photographs 
  and 
  photographic 
  panoramas 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  

   Columbia 
  Alps, 
  which 
  bear 
  testimony 
  to 
  his 
  skill 
  as 
  an 
  expert 
  photographer 
  of 
  

   mountain 
  scenery. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  later 
  excursions 
  to 
  the 
  mountains 
  the 
  geologist's 
  interest 
  in 
  

   their 
  beauty 
  was 
  augmented 
  by 
  the 
  artistic 
  studies 
  of 
  their 
  flora 
  by 
  

   his 
  wife 
  Mary 
  Vaux 
  Walcott, 
  who 
  shared 
  v/ith 
  him 
  every 
  interest, 
  

   scientific 
  and 
  public. 
  

  

  