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aneroid readings to the summit made the height 18,179 feet. Considerable 

 collections were made by the naturalists of the party and reported in various 

 journals. In April, 1892, Scovell returned to Orizaba, and by triangulation 

 from the 13,000 feet level, determined its height to be 18,314, which was 

 accepted by the Coast and Geodetic Survey. A rather full general report 

 of results was published in Science of May 12, 1893. 



In the autumn of 1891, Scovell joined Evermann, then of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, in a study of the rivers of Texas. In 1894 he was sent by the 

 Commission to study the whitefish of Lake Huron, and later assisted Ever- 

 mann in a study of the spawning habits of salmon in the mountain streams 

 of Idaho. About this time he did some work on the geological survey 

 of Arkansas under Branner. - 



In 1894 Scovell returned to teaching as the head of the science depart- 

 ment of the Terre Hautte High School, a position which he held until his 

 death twenty-one years later. 



In 1895 he contributed an elaborate report on the geology of Vigo County 

 to the 21st Report of the Indiana Geological Survey, the result of twenty 

 years of study in that field. He assisted Ashley in his report on the coal 

 deposits of Indiana, published in 1898, and in 1905 made a report on the 

 Roads and Road Materials of Western Indiana. 



In 1899 he began his work in cooperation with Evermann on the physical 

 and biological survey of Lake Maxinkuckee, which was carried on for fifteen 

 successive seasons. His best work was done at home in Vigo County and 

 at his summer cottage on Maxinkuckee. He never wearied of the features 

 and problems of his home field and returned to them with fresh interest 

 whenever any one started a new question. The writer was surprised to note 

 after twenty years of study of the Terre Haute field how little he could add 

 to what Scovell had shown him at the beginning. 



I can best sum up the estimates of Dr. Scovell contributed by all his 

 intimate colleagues and pupils, among whom I am glad to enroll myself, 

 by saying that he was a naturalist rather than a specialist in any one depart- 

 ment of science. He was more deeply interested in botany than in zoology 

 and his interest in plants was more ecological than taxonomic. He had the 

 most complete and beautiful collection ever made of the mussels of the 

 Wabash River, representing forty-seven species. He gave considerable 

 attention to the Indian mounds of western Indiana, and in 1912 sent his 

 notes and collections to the Bureau of Ethnology, which accepted them as 



