4 PROCEEDINGS OF TWE WASHINGTON MEETING 



Lloyd William Stephenson, Ph. B., Pb. D., U. S. Geological Survey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Mayville William Twitchell, B. S., M. S., Ph. D., University of South Caro- 

 lina, Columbia, South Carolina. 



Announcement was then made that the Society had lost the following 

 Fellows by death during the year 1911 : Samuel Calvin, S. F. Emmons, 

 Christopher W. Hall, Edwin E. Howell, and Amos 0. Osborn, and one 

 Correspondent, A. Michel-Levy. Memorials of deceased Fellows were 

 then presented as follows: 



MEMOIR OF SAMUEL CALVIN 

 BY B. SHIMEK 



The death of Prof. Samuel Calvin at Iowa Cit}^, Iowa, April 17, 1911, 

 closed the career of another one of the pioneers in geological work in the 

 Mississippi Valle3^ 



Samuel Calvin was born in Wigtonshire, Scotland, February 2, 1840. 

 At the age of eleven years he was brought to the State of Xew York bv 

 his parents, where three years were spent near Saratoga, and then to 

 Buchanan County, Iowa. Iowa was then largely a wilderness, and his 

 early life, like that of all the sturdy pioneers, was full of hardships and 

 varied experiences. At the age of sixteen he was called to teach in a 

 district school near Quasqueton because of a scarcity of teachers. In 

 these early years he also became an expert cabinet-maker and carpenter. 

 From 18G2 to 1864 he was at Lenox College, in Hopkinton, Iowa, first 

 as a student and then as an instructor in mathematics. 



In January, 1864, he enlisted in an Iowa regiment as a volunteer, 

 joining the ranks of those who entered the service of their country at a 

 time when men's patriotism was put to the highest test, for the glamor 

 of war had been dulled by nearly four years of a devastating, bloody 

 struggle, and the end was not in sight. On his return from the service 

 he again resumed his work at Lenox. He served as County Superin- 

 tendent of Delaware County, Iowa, in 1867 and 1868. In 1870 he was 

 married at Hopkinton to Miss Louise Jackson, who, with a son, AVil- 

 liam, and daughter, Alice (Mrs. Lomas), survives him. 



From 1869 to 1873 he served as principal of one of the Dubuque 

 schools, and in January, 1874, he w^as called to the chair of Natural 

 History in the State University of Iowa, succeeding the late Dr. Charles 

 A. White, whose death preceded his own by only a few months. In con- 

 formity with the custom of the day, his chair included geology, botany, 

 and zoology, and it is a striking testimonial to his power as an organizer 

 that out of that work under his guidance have been developed three 



