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MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH BARRELL ^ 



BY HERBERT E. GREGORY 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 18 



Historical sketch 19 



Some personal characteristics 22 



Method of work 23 



The writings of Professor Barrell 24 



Bibliography 25 



Published works 26 



Posthumous manuscripts 28 



Introduction 



During the past few years an unusual number of names have been 

 erased from the rolls of the Geological Society — men whom our science 

 can ill afford to spare. From the Yale contingent alone and in seventeen 

 months death has taken three eminent geologists, all in the height of 



^ Manuscript received bj- the Secretary of the Society November 8, 1922. 



.loseph Barrell, born in New Providence, New Jersey, December 15, 18G0, was the 

 son of Henry Ferdinand and Elizabeth (Wisner) Barrell. B. S. 1892, E. M. 1893, M. S. 

 1897 (So. D., Honorary, 191G). Lebigh University; Ph. D., Yale University, 1900. Mar- 

 ried Lena Hopper Bailey December 27, 1902. Teacher in public schools, 1886-87 ; in- 

 structor in mining and metallurgy, Lehigh University, 1893-97 ; assistant mining engi- 

 neer, Lehigh Valley Coal Company. 1894, Butte & Boston, and Boston & Montana mining 

 companies, Butte, Montana, 1897-98 ; held assistant, U. S. Geological Survey, 1899-1901 ; 

 assistant professor of geology, Lehigh University, and in charge of Department of Nat- 

 ural Sciences, 1900-03 ; assistant professor of geology, 1903-08, professor of structural 

 geology, 1908-1919, Yale University. Fellow of the American Association for tlie Ad- 

 vancement of Science, Geological Society of America. Washington Academy of Sciences, 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paleontological Society, National Academy of 

 Sciences ; member of Connecticut Academy of Sciences. Died at New Haven, Connecticut, 

 May 4, 1919. 



