BIBLIOGRAPHY OF P. H. MELL 47 



Bibliography 

 He was the author of the following publications: 



Auriferous Slate Deposits of Southern Regions. 



Southern Soapstones and Fireclays. 



Wild Grasses vt Alabama. 



Microscopic Study of the Cotton Plant. 



Climatology of Alabama. 



Climatology of Cotton Plant. 



Improvement ol Cotton Plant by Crossing, 



Life- of Patrick Hues Mell, Sr., LL. D. 



Botanical Laboratory Guide. 



Revision of IMell's Parliamentary Practice. 



Revision of White's Gardening for the South. * 



Biological Laboratory Methods. 



Contributions of the South in Building of Nation. 



Administrative Methods in American Colleges. 



Industrial Education and its Value to the South. 



MEMORIAL OF LIENRY SHALER WILLIAMS ^ 

 BY HERDMAN I. CLELAND 



Henry Shaler Williams was born March Q, 1847, at Ithaca, New York, 

 and in this region, with iis deep, picturesque gorges and beautiful lake, 

 he spent his youth and the greater part of his mature years. The interest 

 excited by the fossils which he found as a boy in the fossiliferous shales 

 and sandstones of the ravines and goiges about Ithaca probably deter- 

 mined his choice of a profession, as they later furnished him with the 

 key which enabled him to unlock some of the mysteries of stratigraphy. 

 From these he also learned the precise methods of stratigraphy for which 

 he will long be known. 



Professor Williams sprang from coh)nial stock. The Williams' pro- 

 genitor settled at Say brook, Connecticut, in 1640, and his descendants, 

 in the direct line, remained in that State until the father of the subject 

 of this sketch moved to Ithaca, New Yoik. On his mother's side we find 

 that the family, the Hardy's, came to .America shortly before the Eevo- 

 lutionary War. 



He prepared for the Sheffield Scientific School at Ithaca Academy and 

 graduated from Yale in the class of 1868. His popularity as a student 

 is shown by his election to the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. After graduation, 



1 In the absence of the author, an oral tribute to the deceased was paid by Whitman 

 Cross before the Society on December 27, 1918. 

 1 Read before the Society December 27, 1913. 

 Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society December 28, 1918. 



