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matt-rial for a projected Handbook of Aborigine The catholicity 



of his taste was indicated by the collection of miners shells, 



ferns and implements in his house and the pile of rare glacial boulders in his 

 yard, both of which were well worth going to see. 1 1 of all 



interested in topography, land forms and the weather. I should classify him 

 as primarily a geographer of broad sympathies. He was always at hi- 

 in the field. '"His mind.'' says one of his most intima was 



tially analytical and judicial. He was not apt to reach conch; 

 hastily. After having arrived at a tentative conclusion, he was always 

 posed to try to discover objections, which he would examine critically and 

 modify his conclusions accordingly. He was a keen observer and his <-<>m- 

 ments on what he saw were always interesting and illuminating. A day 

 spent with him in the field was sure to be a day filled with interest ami profit." 

 "In disposition." says another, "he was genial and kindly, and gave freely 

 to his companions of the varied store of knowledge which he had accumulated 

 during his life time of study of the great out-of-door-.'' 



He was a charter member of this academy and at its first meeting - 

 a resume of geographical studies in Indiana. He contributed to the pro- 

 grams twenty-two titles, of which ten papers were published in the Proceed- 

 ings. 



In 1874 he published Lessons in Geography which were re-written and re- 

 issued as a Commercial Geography in 1910. andin 1879, In ssons ii PI ysiology, 

 all of which had more than local use as text-books. In 1S94. he contributed 

 Practical Lessons ii - :o the Werner series. In 191*2 he prepared an 



account of Fort Harrison in ISli for the centennial celebration. He was a 

 student to the last, making credits at the University of Chicago in 1909. . 



Dr. Scovell's death from pneumonia on May 8, 1915 removes perhaps 

 the last survivor of those who could be called pioneers of science in Indiana. 

 He was one of the "'old guard." whose place can never be filled, but whose 

 memory 



S lis sweet and blossoms in the dust". 



Bibliography. 



l->74. Lessons in Geography. 

 1879. Lessons in Physiology. 



1890. An Old Channel of the Xiagara River. Proceedings Am. Assc. for 

 Advancement of Seienee,Vol. 39, p. 245. 



