MEMORIAL OF H. M. SEELY 67 



implied in the fossil, or the beauty of the corolla or cell structure was in itself 

 enough to arouse interest and awaken appreciation and enthusiasm. His own 

 simple, but forceful manner in the exposition of natural phenomena showed 

 the students that he was no listless teacher of great truths." 



As to Professor Seely's disposition, Doctor Sanf ord well remarks : 



"If ever there was in the village in which he lived a beloved son of Teuthras 

 who lived by the road and was glad to be a friend of man it was he." 



As comrade and fellow-worker in the field, the writer enjoyed the close 

 acquaintance of Professor Seely for more than forty years, and he can 

 most heartily indorse all that has been said concerning his character and 

 ability as a teacher, and I may add testimony as to his unfailing patience 

 and thoroughness as a field-worker. 



Most of our investigations were carried on in the Champlain Valley, 

 and the numerous and varied problems which this region presents to any 

 who will see them afi'ords great delight as well as perplexity to those who 

 would know its geology. The writer considers it as one of the great privi- 

 leges of his life to have been the intimate companion of such a man and 

 with him to have sought to bring some sort of order out of the confusion 

 of the beds of the Champlain Valley. 



To all students of western Vermont and eastern New York the work of 

 Professor Seely must always be of greatest importance. This is notably 

 true of the Beekmantown and Chazy, and in this connection it would be 

 quite unfair not to speak of Dr. Ezra Brainerd, who for some years was 

 coworker with Doctor Seely in establishing a system of classification for 

 these beds which must always be classic in geology and form a foundation 

 for whatever may follow as a result of future studies. The names of 

 Brainerd and Seely will always be inseparably associated in the minds of 

 students of the Beekmantown and Chazy of the Champlain Valley. 



An important addition to our knowledge of the life of the Beekman- 

 town was made when Dr. E. P. Whitfield described and figured in the 

 bulletins of the American Museum of Natural History many new species 

 of cephalopods and other mollusks which these gentlemen had secured 

 from the limestone beds of Fort Cassin at the entrance of Otter Creek 

 into Lake Champlain. Addison County, in which Professor Seely had 

 spent so large a part of his life, was naturally his especial field of work, 

 and the last scientific work which he was able to undertake was an ex- 

 tensive article for the Seventh Eeport of the Vermont State Geologist, in 

 which he summarized the labors of many years of field-work. 



Professor Seely was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the 

 Paleontological Society, the American Association for the Advancement 



