256 Joseph Barrell. 



earth in which the earth's history has been written by 

 a mighty hand, — Lehigh is proud of the record of this 

 alumnus whose lifework has been so modestly yet so 

 ably done, and through whose work his Alma Mater has 

 been highly honored." 



In a sketch of himself written for the twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of his class at Lehigh, Barrell says that in 

 1893, when he received his second degree, ''jobs were 

 rare and I regarded myself as lucky in securing an 

 instructor ship at Lehigh in mining and metallurgy." 

 This position he held for four years, teaching mechani- 

 cal drawing, mining and metallurgical design, making 

 shop visits to various metallurgical plants, and practic- 

 ing mine surveying with students in the anthracite mines. 

 ''Teaching is always better training for the teacher 

 than for the taught. After the reorganization of the 

 work in the first year I found some free time. The 

 summers were put in in gaining experience, parts of 

 the winters were employed in studying geology and 

 practical astronomy, for which Lehigh gave me the 

 degree of M.S. in 1897." His thesis for this degree 

 is 419 pages long, and is entitled "The Geological 

 History of the Archean Highlands of New Jersey, in- 

 cluding their Extension in New York and Pennsylvania. ' ' 



In 1898, Professor E. H. Williams, Jr., then of Lehigh, 

 contemplating a division of his work, got the university 

 to consent to hold vacant for two years the position of 

 assistant professor of geology if Barrell would spend 

 that time at Yale in advanced work. Barrell says this 

 opportunity "was a most generous one on the part of 

 Professor Williams. I spent the following two collegi- 

 ate years at Yale and the summers working in Mon- 

 tana for the U. S. Geological Survey in general and 

 mining geology. ... In 1900 Yale gave me the degree 

 of Ph.D., and thus a mining and metallurgical educa- 

 tion, combined with a panic year on leaving college, 

 had led logically into a career as a geologist. The 

 initial engineering education and the experience of the 

 eight years following 1892 formed the broad and solid 

 base on which the following work has been built." 



For three years after 1900, Barrell taught geology at 

 Lehigh, with biology as a side issue. In December, 1902, 

 he was married at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to Miss 

 Bailey, and the three summer months of. the year pre- 



