GTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH 309 



Prof. Marsh, one of the most skilful of those who are carrying for- 

 ward the science whose foundations he laid." l 



Marsh was a frequent visitor to England, and attended many 

 meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 where he read numerous papers on his western researches. He 

 paid a last visit in 1898, having been appointed a delegate from 

 this country to the International Congress of Zoologists at Cam- 

 bridge, subsequently attending the Association meeting at Bristol. 

 He traveled extensively on the continent, and attended various 

 congresses, both geological and zoological, in 1897 going as far 

 as Russia as one of the delegates to represent the United States 

 Geological Survey at the International Geological Congress at St. 

 Petersburg. 



The conditions of Marsh's early life tended to the formation 

 and growth of certain peculiarities which at times laid him open 

 to criticism. When he entered college he was years older than his 

 classmates a man when they were boys. He had not, at the 

 formative period of his life, been thrown with other boys of his 

 own age, and subjected to that process of attrition by which 

 angles are worn off. Absorbed in his work, he never married, 

 and thus missed that further smoothing off of roughness which 

 family life is likely to bring. 



His indomitable will brought him success and in later life, like 

 many successful men, he was sometimes impatient, intolerant, 

 and even autocratic. He took the ground that a region first in- 

 vestigated by him became his by right of preemption a notion that 

 caused him numberless difficulties and brought little sympathy. 

 He was a man of strong convictions when attacked he would 

 fight and there were years in his scientific life when he permitted 



1 "II est impossible de rappeler ici toutes les creatures que le marteau de 

 M. Marsh a tirees des rochers et que son genie a restaurees. Les decouvertes 

 qui se font en ce moment, soit aux Etats-Unis, soit en Patagonie, ouvrent de- 

 vant les paleontologistes des horizons immenses. Nous croyons honorer la 

 memoire de Cuvier en attribuant le prix qui porte son nom au professeur 

 Marsh, un des plus habiles continuateurs de la Science dont il a jete les 

 fondements." 



