THE 



AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



GEORGE JARVIS BRUSH. 



Professor Brush, whose long life of active service for 

 science and Yale University closed on February 6th, will 

 always be remembered as a pioneer in the building up of scien- 

 tific education in this country. His energy, his indomitable 

 will, his courage in contending with obstacles, and his rare 

 administrative ability were devoted, for nearly forty years, 

 with intense singleheartedness to the School of science from 

 which he obtained his degree in 1852. As the reward of his 

 devotion and that of his colleagues, he had the satisfaction of 

 seeing the School expand steadily from the smallest of begin- 

 nings until it was established as a vigorous and growing 

 department of Yale University. He began his work when 

 the value of science, and that of the scientific methods of the 

 laboratory, were but meagerly appreciated in the country : 

 when he resigned from active service in 1898, science had won 

 a large place in every- institution and schools of science were 

 to be found at many centers of learning. 



Professor Brush was also an able and trained worker in a 

 special field of science, contributing largely to mineralogy 

 through his own original work and acting as an inspiration to 

 his students who carried on the research in his favorite subject 

 when his energies were diverted into administrative lines. 



George Jarvis Brush was born on December 15th, 1831. 

 He was the seventh in line of descent from Thomas Brush 

 who settled in Southold, Long Island, in 1653 and who is ' 

 believed to have been the first of the name in America. The 

 father of Mr. Brush was Jarvis Brush, and his mother, Sarah 

 Keeler ; the family home was in Brooklyn, N. Y., where the 

 father was in active and successful business as a commission 

 and importing merchant. In 1835, when still a young man, he 

 retired from business, satisfied with the competency he had 

 gained, and moved with his family to Danbury, Connecticut, 

 where he resided for some six years, until 1841, when he 



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