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in 191 9 was appointed to the Board of Commissioners in charge 

 of the Survey. Besides these official services he made independent 

 investigations in several lines. He was geologist of the Peary 

 Relief Expedition to Northern Greenland in 1895, in connection 

 with which he studied existing glaciers under the unparalleled 

 advantages presented in very high latitudes. 



Dr. Salisbury was a very lucid writer. The reports of his 

 researches and the texts of the several works he prepared for the 

 general reader and for students put into the easy possession of others 

 what he saw so clearly himself. The printed results of his studies 

 in field and office will long stand as a lasting memorial to Professor 

 Salisbury's industry and clarity of vision. 



Large and important as were these contributions, Dr. Salis- 

 bury's greatest service to science lay in his singular success in 

 stimulating and training young talent not only for the teaching of 

 science but for research. This distinguished service began at 

 Beloit College, 1883-91, was continued at the University of Wis- 

 consin, 1891-92, and was transferred to the University of Chicago 

 at its opening, where he took part in founding the Department of 

 Geology thirty years ago. For nearly twenty years he was active 

 executive of the Department and for the last four years bore its 

 full responsibilities. In connection with this geological service 

 he developed the Department of Geography and served as its head 

 from 1913 to 1918, when he was made head of the Department of 

 Geology, and the Department of Geography was transferred to 

 one who, first as a student under him, and then as a colleague, had 

 grown to marked efficiency. From 1899 onward Dr. Salisbury 

 was dean of the Ogden (Graduate) School of Science of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. In these varied relations he came into touch 

 with thousands of young minds and gave them effective impulses 

 toward sound scholarship and the higher life. The ultimate effects 

 of this work are beyond estimation. Through the growing efficiency 

 and the rising power of the young talent thus inspired by his 

 leadership, Dean Salisbury's greatest service to science and to 

 humanity has only fairly begun. 



T. C. C. 



