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Charles A. Dayton, and also by the specimens in the Children's 



Museum, in which building the meetings are held Frank H. 



Ames, Secretary. 



ALBEET G. WETHEEBY.' 



Professor Albert G. Wetherby was born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 

 1833. While yet a boy his parents removed to the vicinity of Cleve- 

 land. Here he obtained a rudimentary education, and afterwards 

 went to college. After his graduation his time for several years was 

 spent in farming in the summer and teaching a country school in 

 winter. In 1861 he removed to Cincinnati, where he was appointed 

 principal of the Woodburn public school. He filled this position 

 with great acceptability during nine years ; but his friends, recog- 

 nizing his broad scholarship and his special fitness to teach the 

 natural sciences, urged his appointment to a professorship in the 

 Cincinnati University, and in 1870 he was elected to the chair 

 of natural history. But as the University was new, and spending its 

 money in new buildings and equipment, the chairs of geology and 

 botany were added to his duties. Professor Wetherby was young, 

 full of energy and enthusiasm, and during these six years of his 

 university work accomplished more than mortal man should have 

 attempted. But even if he had nerves of steel, he saw that he would 

 soon break down under this overwork, and so he resigned to accept 

 a more lucrative position in the business world. 



Professor Wetherby was a born teacher, and some of his friends 

 thought he made the mistake of his life in resigning his chair in the 

 University to accept a business position. But the trustees had 

 placed upon him burdens too heavy for one man to bear, and he was 

 too conscientious a teacher to slight his work. 



His enthusiasm for his favorite studies was contagious. No one 

 could be in his society long without feeling the wonderful magnetic 

 power of this man. On one of his excursions with his class in 

 geology he penetrated the wild mountain region of South Carolina. 

 Little did he then think that this region would be his future home ; 

 that he would spend his last years among these strange people, the 



^ The portrait is reproduced from the last photograph which he had takea 

 and represents Prof. Wetherby at about fifty years of age. — Editors. 



