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Memorials of deceased Fellows were presented as follows: 



MEMORIAL OF GARLAND CARR BROADHEAD ^ 

 BY CHARLES R. KEYES 



By the recent demise of Garland Carr Broadhead, at the ripe old age 

 of 85 years, the Geological Society loses one of its charter members and 

 the country its only eminent living pioneer in mid-continental geology. 

 Professor Broadhead was the last surviving member of a small coterie of 

 enthusiastic scientists who, in the third quarter of the last century, espe- 

 cially enriched our geological literature by their records oi numerous and 

 fundamental observations in the Mississippi Valley. 



All members of this distinguished group were proteges of that keen 

 investigator and tireless worker in this field, Dr. David Dale Owen. All 

 adopted the then novel methods and followed the then new precepts of 

 this famous scientist and master-pioneer in earth-study in the New World. 

 The thoroughness of their training and their sound grounding in the 

 advanced phases of that period are amply attested by the fact that after 

 half a century of severest test the results of their efforts stand today 

 without material change. 



This same congenial group of mid-western pioneers in science were 

 further particularly characterized by the circumstance that, besides being 

 good geologists, its members were also first-rate, all-around naturalists. 

 The investigations on the rocks were accompanied by full notations on 

 the local weather conditions, the peculiarities of the drainage, the navi- 

 gability of the streams, and their value as water-powers, the character of 

 the vegetation, and the kinds and uses of the forests, the characters and 

 habits of the birds and animals, the agricultural adaptabilities of the 

 different soils, the kinds and immediate uses of the various minerals, and 

 all like information which was likely to be of service to incoming settlers 

 in a new land. Broadhead had wide knowledge in all of these branches. 



By continuing so far beyond the allotted span of life. Professor Broad- 

 head served to acquaint the present generation with the older one and 

 to impress, unconsciously, the former with the scientific spirit and valor 

 of the latter. A'^oluminous as were the Broadhead writings on strictlv 

 geological topics, they were surpassed in number by the accounts on sub- 

 jects of natural history, anthropology, and local history. The refrain 

 running through all of his work, through all of his courses of instruction 

 at the Missouri State University during the course of his long professor- 

 ship there, and through his many public lectures, was the adjustment of 

 man^s life and efforts to his geological environment. 



1 Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society, March 10, 1919. 



