MEMORIAL OF G. K. GILBERT 31 



of Ohio, for which appropriations were made by the State legislature in 

 1869. He went to Columbus, called upon Governor Hayes, and was in- 

 formed that the regular appointments would be given to residents of the 

 State; but he also learned that Dr. Newberry was among those under 

 consideration as State Geologist. Gilbert then called upon Dr. Newberry 

 and was offered a position as volunteer assistant, with $50 per month 

 from the State toward the payment of expenses. This offer was ac- 

 cepted, and Gilbert thus came into association with a group of men, 

 with Xewberry at their head, many of whom later came to recognized 

 leadership in American geology. In addition to Gilbert, other members 

 of this group were Irving, Newton, Winchell, and Orton. 



Gilbert began his work as a volunteer on July 1, 1869. That summer 

 and the next were spent in field-work in the northwestern part of the 

 State, while the succeeding winters were passed in part at least in New 

 York City, where Dr. Newberry occupied the Chair of Geology and Pale- 

 ontology at the Columbia School of Mines. Here Gilbert assisted New- 

 berry in various ways. He made drawings of fossils for reproduction in 

 the Ohio re])orts which won generous praise from his chief. He aided in 

 the preparation of some of Dr. Newberry's lectures. Here, too, doubtless 

 he prepared his own reports on the geology of the Maumee Valley and 

 the counties of northwestern Ohio. 



Through Dr. Newberry he became acquainted with members of the 

 famous New Haven group of geologists, his journal recording a journey 

 which the two made there together on Fabruary 23, 1870, when lie met 

 Professors Silliman, Marsh, Norton, and Blake. He even undertook to 

 prepare some drawings for Professor Marsh, in addition to his work for 

 Dr. Newberry. 



He appears to have taken full advantage of the general opportunities 

 which residence in New York gave him. The theater and lectures on a 

 variety of topics attracted him. The catholicity of his tastes as well 

 as the tendency to maintain a careful balance between opposing theories 

 are indicated by the two lectures which he attended on January 9, 1870, 

 one by Henry Ward Beecher, entitled "Pequost of tlie disciples for more 

 faith:-' the other by George Francis Train, on ''Old fogies of the Bil)le." 



The direct products of his own work while with the Ohio Survev are 

 the county reports, the surface geology of the Maumee Valley, and some 

 shorter papers, in which advance publication was given to the more 

 important general conchisions resulting from the field-work. In these 

 reports he described cl«^arly tlie series of l)eaches around the western 



