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practical problems and local developments, embodied in dignified dress, 

 continuously and respectably issued, till its founder, conscious that his 

 foundation and his grip were secure, a commanding general of geological 

 forces, invaded the purer fields of the science and set his monuments in 

 a series of splendid coherent volumes, one quickly following another, 

 giving to his State an encyclopedia of its geology extraordinary in full- 

 ness, logical sequence, and beauty of execution. 



So much we knew ; and some of us who have served as State geologists 

 and dare not take such achievements for granted as, permit me to say, 

 too many teachers and the public are likely to do, we were consumed mth 

 admiration of his performances. 



I have spoken of him as a commanding general of geological forces. 

 The commanding general would never have been more than a lieutenant 

 except as he could supplement his special knowledge with a quick, broad, 

 and comprehending grasp of others' knowledge and apply it best to the 

 general good. There lay his genius. He knew how to guide the treasure 

 finders into the treasure house he was raising and how to build their 

 jewels into a proper setting. He not only inspired men, but he dis- 

 covered them; and no man whom he discovered or inspired, whom he 

 set upon his feet and whose feet he turned into upward paths, lost his 

 individuality. His organizations in the State Survey and in the univer- 

 sity were not concerns in which the efforts of his coworkers were focused 

 on their leader ; he would not have it so, but rather on their w^ork. 



When his new house at Guilford was nearly finished, enough for occu- 

 pancy, I happened to find open on the desk of his study, where the books 

 were lying in careless piles, a copy of Grabau's Principles of Stratigra- 

 phy — a thoughtful volume and no reading for a summer's afternoon. In 

 all the confusion of an unsettled home and amidst his duties as university 

 counselor, university professor, member of committees and commissions, 

 scientific and civic, he was reading this book consecutively, just before 

 going to bed each night, and he had nearly finished it. Undoubtedly he 

 did finish it in these studious ends of busy days, and it was by such prac- 

 tices as this that his active mind kept abreast of the advances of his o\^m 

 science. Thus always with a good general. The hours when he is closeted 

 with himself and his most intimate concerns are the wellspring of his 

 competency. Those who knew Doctor Clark closely can tell of the quality 

 of his friendship. Unsparing in his commendation where he saw it 

 deserved, he did not let commendation go unsupported. How often and 

 persistently he put aside his own claims in favor of those associated with 

 him; labored for them, forgetful of himself; how gladly he took his 

 friends to his heart and shared with them his purposes, sought their 



