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Recent wind action upon loess. I'roceedin^s of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 



1875-1880; 1880, page 21. 

 Charcoal streak in loess. I*i'oceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1875- 



1880 : 1880. page 21. 

 Roots and root-marks found in loess. I'roceedings of the Iowa Academy of 



Sciences, 1875-1880: 1880, page 17. 

 Relation of loess to drift in southwestern Iowa. Proceedings of the Iowa 



Academy of Sciences, 1875-1880: 1880, page 19. 

 Certain changes of Platte River during the Quaternary. Proceedings of the 



Iowa Academy of Sciences, 1880, page 20. 

 Notes on geology of northwestern Iowa. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of 



Sciences, volume 1, part 2. 1892, pages 13-16. 

 Volcanic ash bed near Omaha. American Geologist, volume 15, 1895, page 130. 

 Glacial diversion of Missouri River. I'an- American Geologist, volume 39, 1923. 



(In press.) 



Doctor Keyes also states that I'rofessor Todd submitted a paper to him for 

 publication in the Pan-American Geologist, only a few weeks before his death, 

 on the subject "Glacial diversion of the Missouri River" that will appear in 

 an early number of that periodical. 



MEMORIAL OF LEVI HOLBROOK ^ 

 BY JAMES F. KEMP 



The death of Levi Holbrook at liis summer home, Center Harbor, Xew 

 Hampshire, July 26, 1922, diminished by one the already small number 

 of surviving '^Original Fellows" of the Society. Starting with ninety- 

 eight in 1889, the group is now twenty-nine. Mr. Holbrook had reached 

 the advanced age of eighty-six years, and, with snow-white hair and 

 beard, had long been one of the striking figures at the meetings of the 

 American Institute of Mining Engineers and those of the American 

 Geographical Society. 



Levi Holbrook was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, March 7, 183(), 

 and was the son of Levi and Eliza (Grant) Holbrook. He traced his 

 ancestry to John Holebrook, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, a prominent 

 figure in the early colonial days. Levi Holbrook fitted for college at the 

 Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, graduating in 1852. 

 A year later he entered Yale and was valedictorian of the Class of ^5T 

 and member of Phi Beta Kappa. Some troul)le with his eyes called for 

 medical care in Boston for the next six months and led to a horseback 

 journey across the Eocky Mountains to the Columbia River and back. 

 At this time literary ambitions governed Mr. Holbrook and led him to 

 study modern literature and languages at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 



^ Manuscript received by tlie Secretary of the Society February 10. ir»-_':{. 



