In 1886 lie visited Alaska and camped for a month by the Muir Glacier. 

 In the season of 1887-88 he further explored Ohio, Dakota and other parts 

 of the Northwest. In the fall of 1887 he delivered a course of lectures on 

 his hobby before the Lowell Institute in Boston and in 1888 before the 

 Peabody Institute of Baltimore and in Brooklyn. In 1889 he published 

 his great work " The Ice Age in North America "* (648 pp. 8 vo.), which 

 has met a large sale in this country and abroad and has made him famous. 



The summer of 1890 was spent in study of the lava beds of the Pacific 

 coast. 



In the summer of 1891 he visited Europe to there study the Ice Age and 

 Early Man, for the first of which his unprecedented study of the ice limits 

 in the United States gave him great advantage, and he was warmly 

 received by scientists abroad. 



In the winter of 1891-92 he gave a second course of Lowell lectures and 

 in 1892 there was issued his latest book, in the International Scientific 

 Series, entitled "Man and the Glacial Period" (384 pp. 12 mo. 108 illus- 

 trations and 3 maps). 



Professor Wright has also been a generous contributor, mainly upon his 

 favorite topic, to the publications of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 the American Naturalist, the Neiu Englander, American Journal of 

 Science, the American Geologist, the Nation, the Independent, the 

 Advance, the Gongregationalist, the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Maga- 

 zine and other papers, and has delivered many lectures. He has also pub- 

 lished in 1881 the " Logic of Christian Evidences ; " in 1882, " Studies in 

 Science and Religion," and in 1884, "The Divine Authority of the Bible." 

 He has a thoughtful, active, discriminating mind, careful in investigation 

 and not fast to conclusion. He is modest and candid and has done an 

 amount of active intellectual work that few could do unless their studies 

 had been as largely in the field. 



At present he fills the chair atOberlin, of Professor of " Relations of 

 Science and Religion," with leave of absence for several months each year 

 to pursue his investigations. This professorship was created for him. 



This notice is in the main condensed from the Popular Science Monthly 

 for December, 1892. 



*The Ice Age in North America and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man, by 

 G. Frederick Wright, D. D., LL.D., F. G. S. A., Professor in the Oberlin Theologi- 

 cal Seminary; Assistant upon the United States Geological Survey; Author of "Logic 

 of Christian Evidences," etc., with an appendix on "The Probable Cause of Glacia- 

 tion," by Warren Upham, F. G. S. A., Assistant upon the Geological Survey of New 

 Hampshire, Minnesota and the United States. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1889 



