12 '/'//< American Geologist. July, IE 
Dr. Newberry's work received recognition from fellow labor- 
ers in many lands. He was ;i charter member of the National 
Academy of Sciences; foreign correspondent <>r the London 
Geological Society, from which he received the Murchison 
medal in isss; he was president of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science in isr.7: he was president of 
the New York Academy of Science- for twenty-five year-: he 
had been vice-president of the Geological Society of America, 
and he was made president of the last Internationa] Congress 
cit Geologists, though it was known that he was too ill to at- 
tend any of the meetings. 
Dr. Newberry's personality inspired confidence so that he 
made others do work for which he was unfitted. While pos- 
sessing comparatively little of what is termed executive abil- 
ity, yet he had the power of inducing others, who had that 
ability, to use it in directions designated by him. An organi- 
zation into which he threw himself was certain soon to have 
within it not a few as deeply concerned in its welfare a- was 
he himself. lie shunned active leadership, preferring the 
less irksome hut equally important position of adviser ; so that 
the extent to which his influence was excited for good in New 
York is not likely to be estimated properly. 
He was never selfish; he thirsted for fame, yet he made no 
effort to secure recognition. His sense of justice was keen, 
that of an honorable man: with assistants on the Ohio sur- 
vey, in his museum, attached to his professorship, most id' them 
earnest students and many of them following the same lines of 
study with himself, he had every opportunity to enrich him- 
self by seizing suggestions coming from inquiring minds, or 
by utilizing results obtained during studies which In- had di- 
rected. But during twenty-five years of intimate acquaint- 
ance with him, the writer never knew of an instance where 
the fruit of another man's labors was taken. It was his proud 
assertion that in all his life he had never used without full 
acknowledgment, anything belonging to another. So careful 
was he. that, in more than one instance, hi- credited another 
with a suggestion, which was but a (dearer statement of what 
he himself had said only a few mom -nts before. 
He was unreserved in dealing with his fellow workers ; no 
fear of loss restrained him. Whatever he had learned from 
