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ites, and numerous friends have made the acquaintance of Clarence 

 King's "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" at his suggestion or as a 

 result of attendance at these readings. 



Gilbert^s family relations were ideal, for he was a most faithful and 

 devoted husband and father. Mrs. Gilbert died in 1899, after a long 

 period of invalidism, during which she received the tenderest and most 

 solicitous care. Their eldest child, a daughter and a great favorite of 

 her father, died of diphtheria at the age of seven. Two sons survive — 

 the older, Archibald Marvine Gilbert, being a distinguished engineer of 

 San Francisco, California. An elder sister, Mrs. Emma Gilbert Loomis, 

 to whom her brother was greatly devoted, now lives in Jackson, Michi- 

 gan. After the death of his wife, Gilbert made his home, when in Wash- 

 ington, with Dr. C. Hart Merriam,^^ who thus aptly summarizes the 

 character of his lifelong friend : 



"All authority in many fields and yet one who never assumed authority; a 

 le^ider in pcience and yet one who never assumed leadership; neither power 

 nor glory did he seek, but the satisfaction of contributing his share to the sum 

 of human knowledge." 



Honors 



Master of Arts, University of Rochester 1872 



LL. D., University of Roeh^ter 1898 



LL. D., Wisconsin University 1904 



LL. D., University of Pennsylvania 1908 



Member National Academy of Sciences 1883 



President American Society of Naturalists 1885 



President Geological Society of America 1892 and 1909 



President Philosophical Society of Washington 1892 



President Cosmos Club 1894 



President Geological Society of Washington 1895 and 1908 



Wollaston Medal, London Geological Society 1899 



President American Association for the Advancement of Science 1900 



President National Geographic Society 1904 



President Association of American Geographers 1908 



Walker Grand Prize, Boston Society of Natural History 1908 



Hubbard Medal, National Geographic Society 1909 



Charles P. Daly Medal, American Geographic Society 1910 



Foreign member, London Geological Society. 

 American Academy, Rome; Royal Society of London. 

 Honorary member. Geographic Society of Berlin. 

 Corresponding member. Bavarian Ro.yal Academy of Sciences. 

 Corresponding member. Geographic Society of Leipsig. 



'■•J C. Hart Merriam : Grove Karl Gilbert, the man. Sierra Club Bulletin, vol x no 4 

 .fanuary, 1919, pp. 391-396. 



