MEMORIAL OF W. B. CLARK 23 



counsel, and prided himself on their companionship — these things are 

 known only to them. They are the qualities which in this assembly have 

 been somewhat veiled. 



He was a lover of men and he was wise in his use of them. He sought 

 them, especially men who were doing things or men who could help him 

 do the many things he was called on to do. Thus the circle of his influ- 

 ential acquaintance was very large, and he knew which way to turn when 

 any new demands were put on him. 



There must come many times to every one of us now Mdien we feel the 

 State needs the service we are competent to render, but it is not given 

 to many men to create the opportunity for such service; and it is one 

 thing to construct a beneficial public agency which will run as long as 

 its creator stands on the bridge, but quite another to organize so securely 

 that it will continue to run when the captain has left the ship and another 

 has taken his place. The State of Maryland's Weather Service, its fine 

 system of public highways, its Forestry Service, its Boundary Survey — 

 these are the permanent witnesses of his service to her. Baltimore's 

 streets, parks, docks, and sewers, her prospective civic center, her feder- 

 ated charities, her aid for dependent children, her war against tubercu- 

 losis — these, too, are witnesses of his ability and will to serve. 



Another place must be reserved for the measure of his university use- 

 fulness, I have heard his students say that the Geological Laboratory 

 at his university was the ideal place for a student, filled with an atmos- 

 phere of lofty motives and the inspiring joy of work; and there are not 

 a few graduates of his department who have said that he was the most 

 potent influence in their lives. 



The students who gathered around him caught his ideals — there was 

 to be no specializing among them till they had covered the entire broad 

 field of the science, organic and inorganic, and were then in some more 

 adequate measure inoculated with his vision. That this paleontologist 

 graduated from his department geologists, paleontologists, paleobotanists, 

 geophysicists, highway engineers, and meteorologists was a natural real- 

 ization of his proper university business; but a more vivid expression of 

 his earnest conviction that geology is an essential science is that he had 

 convinced the engineering faculty of the imperative need of the full under- 

 graduate course in geology for candidates in civil engineering. 



Doctor Clark's last work was for his country. He had entered on and 

 perfected the organization of an extensive survey of the Atlantic Sea- 

 board and Gulf States for the purpose of locating all available materials 

 for road construction and fortification, and to make these important data 

 of location and transportation immediately available. Into this under- 



