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the term, and so help to place and sustain our noble 

 profession in the position which it ought to occupy. 

 ("William Stokes, 1861.) 



EuFus Cole 

 Hospital or the KocKErELLES Institute, 

 New York City 



RAYMOND B. EARLEi 



We unveil this portrait of Professor Earle, 

 the gift of his wife to Hunter College, not 

 because those of us who were so fortunate as 

 to know him, ever need any portrait to keep 

 his memory living in our hearts. That be- 

 loved memory is too securely enshrined. We 

 have no need for ourselves, to recount his suc- 

 cesses or his charm. But for the sake of 

 those who did not know him, memory lingers 

 now a moment to view some of the sources 

 and manifestations of his power. 



Born in Massachusetts of an old and honor- 

 able line, his first ancestor here, Ealph Earle, 

 came from England in that stirring seven- 

 teenth century which planted this new-world 

 republic, and that name is still borne in the 

 family by his brother Ealph Earle, now almost 

 300 years later. 



In his youth our Professor Eaymond Earle 

 felt the charm of nature; began to make col- 

 lections of specimens; and pressing on to Col- 

 lege, studied geology at Harvard under the 

 inspiration of Professor Shaler, an influence 

 which never left him, and was alwa.ys an 

 ideal. Taking his A.B. degree at Harvard in 

 1900, his Sc.B., 1901 he followed with his 

 Sc.M., 1912 and Sc.D., 1913, at New York 

 University, after a period spent as a lawyer 

 and economist geologist. 



At New York University he taught, 1911- 

 1913, in the department of geology under Pro- 

 fessor J. E. Woodman. To Hunter College he 

 came in 1913, becoming associate professor of 

 geology, and building up what became by 1917 

 one of the largest of geology departments 

 among colleges for women. He had just be- 

 gun his sixth year here, in the prime of vigor 



1 Memorial address at Hunter College, New York 

 City, by Edward S. Burgess, on the unveiling of a 

 portrait of his associate. Professor Earle, March 1, 

 1920. 



and only the forty-first year of his age, at the 

 time of his sudden death of pneumonia, No- 

 vember 10, 1918. 



He was equally at home in geology or in 

 physical or economic geography. His re- 

 search specialty had been in iron ores, with 

 other investigations local to the Hudson. He 

 was especially successful as a teacher in arous- 

 ing and sustaining the enthusiasm of his stu- 

 dents in his subject. He also carried over the 

 benefits of his legal training and practise into 

 the applications of his science. He was an 

 extensive traveller, alone, or later, with parties, 

 conducting the latter with the purpose of giv- 

 ing scientific and educational views of our 

 country, particularly in California and Alaska. 

 He kept up his interest in a wide field of na- 

 ture; his collections of birds' eggs is now at 

 Hunter College, and many anthropological col- 

 lections of Indian stone tools and weaxwns, 

 pigmy bird^oints of exquisite work, etc. 



He was an organizer and the first director 

 of the summer session of Hunter College, and 

 a foimder of the Physiographer's Club of New 

 York City. He also gave public lectures here 

 and elsewhere through the State. 



A reader and forceful speaker, a skilled or- 

 ganizer, an intuitive discerner of human na- 

 ture, Professor Earle was an unusually happy 

 combination of the qualities which insure suc- 

 cess. To them he added the atti*action of his 

 frank, genial, sociable, daily life at college; 

 and at home there followed the fitting seal to 

 his day, when in true fulfilment of his quiet 

 but deep religious nature he gathered his little 

 family around the evening table, and gave 

 thanks to the Divine Giver for the blessings of 

 the day. 



RESOLUTIONS ON THE DEATH OF 



MEMBERS OF THE MELLON 



INSTITUTE 



The following resolutions have been adopted 

 by the Eobert Kennedy Duncan Club, the 

 organization of the Industrial Fellows of the 

 Mellon Institute of Industrial Eesearch of the 

 University of Pittsburgh, on the death of 

 three members of the Institute, viz. : Dr. 

 David Shepard Pratt (d. Jan. 28), for three 



