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have you fill my pulpit on Sunday evening. The clergymen generally 

 are making similar requests." At that time I had not had any ex- 

 perience in "filling pulpits" and so excused myself "but" I said, 

 "my friend here, Doctor McGee, can preach almost as well as any 

 minister." Doctor McGee came to my rescue and accepted the in- 

 vitation. I am certain no better sermon was preached in Toronto 

 that Sunday night than his. 



The poignant grief his early death brought to his scientific friends 

 in Washington was not of a fleeting nature. We shall remember him 

 with love, and think of him with regret, while memory lasts. I am 

 glad to add this mite to the treasures of this memorial volume. 



From Professor Henry S. Williams, of Cornell University: 



It gives me pleasure to take a little part in commemorating the life 

 of our friend McGee. 



His genial, optimistic, energetic personality will be recalled by all 

 who knew him in the early active days when he was right-hand man 

 for Major Powell in Washington, and doing his own part in Geological 

 Survey work. 



I saw considerable of him on committees concerning the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Geologists, and in preparing for the Washington 

 Congress also in the early days of the Geological Society, and in the 

 debates in meetings of the American Association whenever the age 

 of relics of man in geological formations were at the front. He was a 

 positive man, ready to speak on his side of the question, and always 

 enthusiastic. My special field of geology gradually led me into groups 

 in which he was less often present, and I rarely met him in the latter 

 days except at the Cosmos Club in Washington. 



I am sure he did much to advance the science of Geology which his 

 writing will perpetuate, but my memory recalls more strongly the 

 open, warm-hearted kindly friend we knew as McGee. 



From Richard W. Young, of Salt Lake City, Utah: 



My acquaintance with Doctor McGee extended over a period of 

 six or seven years a privilege that came to me through my connection 

 with the National, now the International, Irrigation Congress. For 



