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science, but that was ever subordinate to his desire to 

 enrich and benefit the people. The utilitarian, economic, 

 practical features of science were what most profoundly- 

 interested him and enlisted his energies. His proudest 

 monument today is the riches and increased wealth he 

 conferred by his scientific studies on the State of his birth 

 and later residence. He had not time and was too con- 

 scientiously scrupulous to seek riches for himself, his 

 knowledge was never used for personal gain, but no man 

 ever lived in the State who opened so many sources of 

 enrichment to others. 



By his study of the marl beds and indicating where this 

 fertilizer could be most economically gotten and how 

 most advantageously used, as well as by his lectures to 

 farmers, giving them the benefit of his science and taking 

 to them the results of most careful experiments, he has 

 made the agriculture of the State vastly more productive 

 than a generation ago. His maps of the clay beds gave 

 fortunes to many, and built up and expanded the great 

 fire-clay and pottery industries of the State. His ex- 

 haustive study and charting of the ore beds of the State 

 made mining more certain and profitable. He told the 

 cities by the sea how to get pure water, and added thereby 

 hundreds of dollars to the value of every acre along the 

 coast. One has but to read his reports as State Geologist 

 to see how this economic feature of the work is ever 

 uppermost. To improve the health and increase the 

 wealth of the State, the welfare of the people, by his 

 knowledge, is the end ever held in view. It was success- 

 fully executed. A matter of great satisfaction to him, 

 only a day or two previous to his death, was the tidings 

 that the draining of the lowlands of the Passaic, in order 

 to the removing of disease, and opening large stretches of 

 waste land to productive husbandry, for which he had 

 striven for years, had been successfully begun. These 



