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  Obituary. 
  

  

  Obituary. 
  

  

  Charles 
  Richard 
  Van 
  Hise, 
  College 
  president 
  and 
  geologist, 
  

   died 
  on 
  November 
  19, 
  1918, 
  of 
  meningitis 
  following 
  an 
  operation 
  

   on 
  his 
  nose. 
  He 
  leaves 
  a 
  wife 
  and 
  three 
  daughters. 
  Van 
  Hise 
  

   was 
  born 
  at 
  Fulton, 
  Wisconsin, 
  in 
  1857, 
  and 
  his 
  three 
  degrees 
  

   in 
  course 
  were 
  taken 
  at 
  his 
  alma 
  mater, 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Wis- 
  

   consin, 
  over 
  which 
  he 
  has 
  presided 
  since 
  1903. 
  He 
  was 
  honored 
  

   with 
  the 
  LL.D. 
  degree 
  by 
  Chicago, 
  Yale, 
  Harvard, 
  Williams, 
  

   and 
  Dartmouth. 
  For 
  twenty 
  years, 
  most 
  of 
  his 
  life 
  has 
  been 
  

   devoted 
  to 
  research 
  and 
  teaching 
  in 
  geology, 
  along 
  with 
  the 
  

   geologic 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  Lake 
  Superior 
  iron 
  areas. 
  In 
  

   North 
  America 
  he 
  has 
  long 
  been 
  the 
  leader 
  in 
  pre-Cambrian 
  

   geology, 
  more 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  Lake 
  Superior 
  region, 
  and 
  his 
  

   bibliography 
  has 
  more 
  than 
  eighty 
  titles, 
  many 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  

   thick 
  volumes. 
  

  

  Van 
  Hise 
  is 
  probably 
  best 
  known 
  among 
  geologists 
  for 
  his 
  far- 
  

   reaching 
  Treatise 
  on 
  Metamorphism, 
  though 
  some 
  hold 
  that 
  his 
  

   most 
  original 
  and 
  valuable 
  work 
  is 
  his 
  Principles 
  of 
  North 
  

   American 
  Pre-Cambrian 
  Geology. 
  As 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  

   Conservation 
  Commission 
  since 
  1908, 
  he 
  has 
  been 
  most 
  active 
  in 
  

   conserving 
  the 
  natural 
  resources 
  of 
  our 
  country, 
  and 
  his 
  book 
  

   The 
  Conservation 
  of 
  the 
  Natural 
  Resources 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  

   will 
  long 
  be 
  a 
  standard 
  of 
  reference. 
  He 
  also 
  is 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  

   Conservation 
  and 
  Control 
  ; 
  a 
  Solution 
  of 
  the 
  Trust 
  Problem 
  of 
  

   the 
  United 
  States. 
  In 
  1912 
  he 
  was 
  chairman 
  of 
  the 
  arbitration 
  

   board 
  to 
  adjust 
  the 
  labor 
  disputes 
  between 
  the 
  Brotherhood 
  of 
  

   Locomotive 
  Engineers 
  and 
  the 
  eastern 
  railways. 
  Later 
  he 
  

   reported 
  for 
  the 
  Government 
  in 
  regard 
  to 
  the 
  probable 
  future 
  

   movements 
  of 
  the 
  Panama 
  slides. 
  During 
  the 
  great 
  war 
  he 
  was, 
  

   among 
  other 
  things, 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  advisory 
  board 
  to 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Food 
  Administration. 
  He 
  had 
  recently 
  returned 
  from 
  a 
  visit 
  

   to 
  Great 
  Britain 
  and 
  France, 
  made 
  by 
  invitation 
  of 
  the 
  Ministry 
  

   of 
  Information 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Government; 
  on 
  November 
  8 
  he 
  

   delivered 
  a 
  memorable 
  address 
  on 
  "A 
  League 
  of 
  Free 
  Nations." 
  

  

  Pumpelly 
  has 
  recently 
  said 
  that 
  Van 
  Hise 
  was 
  the 
  best 
  of 
  

   fellow 
  travellers, 
  and 
  that 
  he 
  was 
  "charged 
  with 
  mental 
  light- 
  

   ning." 
  In 
  the 
  National 
  Academy 
  he 
  was 
  an 
  active 
  member, 
  and 
  

   one 
  whose 
  judgment 
  was 
  highly 
  valued. 
  

  

  Professor 
  Pierre 
  de 
  Peyster 
  Ricketts, 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  a 
  

   member 
  of 
  the 
  Columbia 
  University 
  faculty 
  in 
  the 
  departments 
  

   of 
  assaying 
  and 
  analytical 
  chemistry, 
  died 
  on 
  November 
  20 
  in 
  

   liis 
  seventy 
  -first 
  year. 
  

  

  Professor 
  George 
  F. 
  Atkinson, 
  since 
  1896 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  

   department 
  of 
  botany 
  at 
  Cornell 
  University, 
  died 
  on 
  November 
  

   1 
  I 
  ;il 
  I 
  he 
  age 
  of 
  fifty-four 
  years. 
  

  

  