X BIOGRAPHY OF PROFESSOR NEWTOK 



ing summer be was appointed an assistant on the Geological Survey of 

 Ohio, with which he was intimately connected for some years, rendering 

 important aid in several departments, to which I shall have occasion to refer 

 again. In 1870 he went to Europe with his intimate friend and classmate, 

 Prof. W. B. Potter, and spent some months in visiting the principal centers 

 of iron and steel industry in the British islands and on the Continent. 



In 1871 Mr. Newton became assistant in metallurgy at the School of 

 Mines; in 1872 he was appointed assistant in geology, a position which 

 he held for two years. During this time we were brought into daily and 

 hourly communication, and I came to entertain for him not only a sincere 

 and warm friendship, but an almost paternal affection. Through the 

 summers of these and succeeding years we were working together on the 

 Geological Survey of Ohio ; in all our intercourse not an unkind word was 

 ever spoken, and I cannot too highly praise the prompt, punctilious, and 

 thorough manner in which his every duty was performed. He was always 

 at his post, courteous and obliging in his manners, doing a great variety of 

 work, and doing it so well that I ultimately came to feel that whatever 

 task was committed to him would be done with accuracy and dispatch. 



In field geology he was a close observer, and an exact and rapid 

 worker, and I early learned that ground that he had gone over need not be 

 revisited unless for a different purpose. He wielded a facile pen, and his 

 notes and reports were at the same time concise and comprehensive. 



The subject which lay nearest his heart, however, and that in which 

 his acquisitions and labors were most important, was the metallurgy of iron 

 and steel. This he pursued for some years with a devotion which absorbed 

 all the time he was able to give to it, and with a success that made him at 

 his death second to no one in this country in his mastery of principles and 

 practical familiarity with details. 



While connected with the Geological Survey of Ohio he made a thor- 

 ough and exhaustive study of all the resources of the State as regards ores 

 and furnace fuels, and of the conditions and possibilities of the future devel- 

 opment of the iron industrp there. This report has not yet been published, 

 but I have no hesitation in pronouncing it the most complete monograph of 

 its kind that has yet been prepared in this country. 



