MEMOIR OF HENRY MCCALLEY 557 



In personal character Mr McCalley was modest and somewhat retir- 

 ing, but no one could be more firm and decided than he in the defense 

 of a friend and in the defense of his own opinions on geological matters 

 after, he had formed them from his own extended observations. In his 

 scientific work he was careful and painstaking to an extraordinary degree, 

 and his conclusions were rarely hastily formed, and they were in conse- 

 quence generally correct. He was one of the most truthful of men, and 

 he could be relied upon to do to the best of his ability whatever work 

 was assigned to him. When called upon to give his views he did it with 

 the utmost frankness, swerving neither to the right nor the left from the 

 straight path of truth. In his connection with the Survey he was sev- 

 eral times called upon to expose frauds, and, after he had become con- 

 vinced on thorough examination of the facts, he left those concerned in 

 no doubt as to his conclusions and convictions. 



He was a consistent and active member of the Episcopal church and 

 very generous in his support of it, responding cheerfully to all the calls 

 made upon his time and means. 



It is said of him that as a child and a young boy he had never re- 

 ceived a correction from either parent or teacher and he never neglected 

 a task set before him ; these characteristics followed him through life. 



Mr McCalley was a member of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science; Fellow of the Geological Society of America; 

 member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers ; secretary of the 

 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society, etcetera. 



The following bibliography takes account of all his papers and reports 

 and, it is believed, the greater part of his minor publications : 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



1878. Letters to the ffuntsville Democrat, descriptive of the physical, geological, and 



economic features of northern Alabama. 



1 879. Chemical report to the State Geologist of Alabama. Report of the State Ge- 



ologist of Alabama for 1877-1878. 



1880. Study of chemistry. Article in the Alabama University Monthly. 



1881. Geological report of that part of Alabama that lies north of the Tennessee 



river. State Geologist's report for 1879-1880. 



1881. Review in the Tuscaloosa Gazette of the Geological Report of 1879-1880. 



1883. Letters to the Tuscaloosa Gazette, descriptive of the physical and geologic feat- 

 ures and economic wealth of the Warrior coal field. 



1883. Review in the Birmingham Daily Age of the Report of the State Geologist for 

 1881-1882. 



1883. Report in the Mountain Eagle, Jasper, Alabama, on the economic wealth of 

 Walker county. 



1886. North Alabama or the mountain, manufacturing, and mineral region of Ala- 

 bama. Chapter ii in the Mineral Wealth of Alabama and Birmingham Illus- 

 trated, published in 1886. 



