692 THOMAS CHROWDER CHAMBERLIN 
The academic career of Van Hise was a steady ascent; he passed 
upward easily and naturally from student in mechanical engineer- 
ing, 1875-79, to instructor in metallurgy, 1879-83; thence to assist- 
ant professor, 1883-86; to professor, 1886-88; to professor of 
mineralogy, 1888-90; to professor of Archaean and applied geology, 
1890-1903; and thence to the presidency of his Alma Mater in 
1903, which he held until his death in 1918. He gave collateral 
academic service at the University of Chicago as non-resident 
professor of structural geology from 1890 to 1903. 
His scientific career was a similar ascent from state and inter- 
state relations to national and international relations. His early 
scientific work was connected with the State Geological Survey 
of Wisconsin and related to the crystalline formations of the 
central and northern part of the state, particularly the iron- and 
copper-bearing series. At the close of the State Survey these 
studies were transferred without interruption to the United States 
Survey and were steadily broadened to include other regions. He 
worked in close association with Irving until the latter’s untimely 
death in 1890, when he succeeded to the direction of their common 
governmental work on the pre-Cambrian formations in the Lake 
Superior region and elsewhere. 
The investigation of the crystalline rocks of the Basement Com- 
plex was the chief geologic task chosen by Dr. Van Hise. It is 
needless to say that it was pursued with characteristic ardor and 
enthusiasm until he was called to the presidency of the University 
of Wisconsin in 1903. ‘The chief results of these geologic investiga- 
tions appear in a series of large monographic volumes that stand as 
a monument of persistent industry and commanding ability. The 
more important of these are: The Penokee Iron Bearing Rocks of 
Michigan and Wisconsin (1892) [with Roland Duer Irving]; The 
Marquette Iron Bearing District of Michigan (1897) [with W. S. 
Bayley and H. L. Smyth]; The Menomonee Iron Bearing District of 
Michigan; Geology of the Lake Superior Region (1911) [with Charles 
Kenneth Leith]; The Archean and the Algonkian (1892); Principles 
of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology (1896) [Appendix by 
Leander Miller Hoskins]; “Some Principles Governing the Deposi- 
tion of Ores,” Journal of Geology (1900); A Treatise on Metamor phism 
