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paring this address increases. Barnard 
was president of Columbia during my un- 
dergraduate course there, and perhaps the 
last time that I saw him was on the occa- 
sion of the meeting of the American Asso- 
ciation in New York, 1887. Another meet- 
ing was yet to come and go, and then 
Barnard too was called away to join the 
silent majority. 
In that admirable address with which he 
welcomed the Association to Columbia he 
reviewed the labors of his many distin- 
guished predecessors in the Association, 
saying in conclusion: 
All these have gone to their rest, many of them 
full of years, all of them full of honors. Others have 
risen to fill their places, no less earnest, no less 
capable, and destined to be no less illustrious.* 
NEWBERRY. 
Among all of these there is none of whom 
I am prouder on this occasion and in this 
place to express my love and honor for than 
John Strong Newberry, of whom it was so 
well said: 
He is a geologist—keen of eye, stout of limb, with 
a due sense of the value of detail, but with a breadth 
of vision that keeps detail in due subordination. { 
Newberry{ was born in Windsor, Con- 
necticut, towards the close of the year 1822. 
He was of early New England ancestry, 
and was specially proud of the fact that his 
grandfather was an officer in the American 
army during the war of the Revolution. 
The boy was barely two years old when his 
parents moved to Ohio and Cuyahoga Falls 
became his home. He was educated at 
* Proceedings, American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, Vol. XX XVI., p. 342. 
+ Address made at the presentation to Newberry of 
the Murchison medal in 1888, by the Geological So- 
ciety of London. He was the first American geologist 
to receive that honor. ; 
{See sketch in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. IX., 
p. 490, August, 1876, with an engraved portrait on 
wood, and also Scientific American, December 31, 
1891, with half-tone portrait. 
SCIENCE. 
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Western Reserve College, and received his 
doctor’s degree from the Cleveland Medical 
College in 1848, after which he spent two: 
years in special study abroad. 
Then settling in Cleveland he began the 
practice of medicine, but his love for na- 
tural science was greater than his fondness 
for his profession, and in 1855 he accepted 
an appointment in the United States Army 
as assistant surgeon. From that time until 
1861 he served both in his professional 
capacity and as a geologist to exploring 
parties. At first under Williamson who 
was sent to examine the country between 
San Francisco and the Columbia River; 
then under Ives in his exploration of the 
Colorado River ; and finally under Macomb 
with the expedition sent to study the San 
Juan and upper Colorado rivers. On the 
material gathered during each of these ex- 
peditions he prepared valuable scientific re- 
ports, which were published by the govern- 
ment. In these volumes will be found 
pioneer work of great value, much of which 
has been lost sight of on account of the 
greater development of the same territory 
by subsequent expeditions. In an appre- 
ciative sketch of him by Kemp, his suc- 
cessor at Columbia, that appeared at the 
time of his death, I find this statement : 
His determinations of strata in the west, although 
based on the hasty itineraries of exploring parties, 
have been very generally corroborated by later and 
more deliberate work.* 
His wonderful ‘ability to grasp as by in- 
tuition the bearings of many widely sepa- 
rated facts,’ + would have gained even 
greater renown for his early work in the 
west, had not the civil war intervened. 
From 1861 to 1866 Newberry was secre- 
tary of the Western Department of the 
United States Sanitary Commission with 
*In Memorium. Professor JohnStrong Newberry, 
School of Mines Quarterly, Vol. XIYV., p. 90, January, 
1893, with two engraved portraits on steel. 
t Idem, p. 99. 
