MEMORIAL OF H. P. CUSHING 45 



citizen of Cleveland and had gone from the practice of medicine there to 

 be naturalist and surgeon on western exploring expeditions in 1855. 

 Later he was State Geologist of Ohio. During this year, 1884-85, the 

 writer was also working under Professor Newberry, and began a close 

 friendship with Harry dishing which knew no change during his life. 

 We two, with the late Frederick J. H. Merrill, made a trio of graduate 

 students under one of the veterans of American geological science. At 

 the close of the year, Henry Gushing was appointed to teach several 

 brandies in natural history at the State Normal School, Mankato, Minne- 

 sota, and remained there until 1891. He then passed a year of study in 

 Munich, working under Groth and Weinschenk. Eeturning to America, 

 he was called to be instructor in geology and chemistry at Western Ke- 

 serve University, which had moved shortly before from Hudson, Ohio, to 

 his native city of Cleveland. He held this position for two years. Pro- 

 motion to an associate professorship of geology followed in 1893, and to 

 the professorship in 189G. In this chair all the remaining twenty-five 

 years of his life were passed. In 1909 Professor Cushing completed the 

 requirements for Ph. D. at his alma mater, Cornell, and received the 

 degree at commencement of that year. 



While yet an undergraduate in college, Henry Cushing developed a 

 deep and keen interest in geology. He worked with Professors S. G. Wil- 

 liams and H. S. Williams. The former had been in charge of the high 

 school in Cleveland in earlier years and took a lively interest in the stu- 

 dent from his old home city. For this formative and guiding interest 

 Professor Cushing often expressed in after years his deep sense of in- 

 debtedness. His later relations with Professor Newberry and in time 

 with Professor Weinschenk were also regarded as important influences 

 in his career. In the publication of his early work he owed much to the 

 support of Prof. James Hall, and in his later years to that of Dr. John M. 

 Clarke, each of whom, though primarily interested in paleontology and 

 stratigraphy, gave from his available resources relatively generous sup- 

 port to Professor Cushing's studies in the Precambrian. 



Professor Cushing's first published work was a short paper on the 

 Berea grit in northeastern Ohio, which was read before the Cleveland 

 meeting of the American Association in the summer of 1888, the meeting 

 at which the Committee of Organization of the Geological Society of 

 America was appointed. Two years later he made a trip to the Muir 

 glacier, Alaska, and from his observations prepared the three titles of 

 1891-93 which will be found in the appended bibliography. These papers 

 foreshadow the extreme care and conscientious accuracy which charac- 

 terize all his work. 



