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remembrance till the last of his hundreds of students shall have 

 followed him to the grave. His lectures were wonderfully fas- 

 cinating, leading his hearers step by step to heights whence 

 they could survey the whole field of his subject. His broad 

 culture, gained by the combination of the humanitarian and 

 scientific studies, had given him an extraordinary power of gen- 

 eralization, stimulating his students by showing them the rela- 

 tions of any subject which he handled to the whole realm of 

 knowledge. He was able to depict these sciences in their true 

 perspective without distortion or exaggeration, a power which 

 unhappily is not very common. Those who had the rare privi- 

 lege of pursuing advanced courses of study under his supervi- 

 sion will long remember the great stimulus to earnest work which 

 they received from him, and the clear, philosophical views of 

 Nature which he expounded. 



For many years Guyot laboured under great disadvantages 

 from the lack of proper appliances, but he never allowed these 

 drawbacks to lower the character of his work. When Prince- 

 ton's day of prosperity came, he showed that he knew how to 

 apply money wisely, as before he had been able to accomplish 

 a great deal without it. The system of scientific expeditions 

 to the West, which has so greatly stimulated the study of natu- 

 ral science at Princeton, and added so much to the treasures 

 of her museums, was organized under his direction ; and the 

 wonderful growth of all the departments of natural science in 

 the college must be in very large measure attributed to the wis- 

 dom and foresight of Guyot. 



The visible monument of Guyot's work in Princeton will 

 always be the Museum of Geology and Archaeology. He ex- 

 pended with consummate skill the sums placed at his disposal 

 by generous friends, and organized an enthusiastic corps of 

 workers, so that a superb series of collections has been gath- 

 ered. Thus in every department of activity his influence has 

 been of the utmost service to Princeton in particular, and to 

 American science in general. 



In addition to the work of his professorship, Guyot gave 

 courses of lectures at the New Jersey State Normal School, in 

 Trenton, at the Princeton Theological Seminary, at Columbia 

 College and the Union Theological Seminary in New York, 

 and at the Smithsonian Institution. He wrote a treatise on 

 physical geography for Johnson's Atlas, and was one of the two 



