138 Douglass Houghton. — A. Winchell. 
of Houghton's contemporaries and friends, appreciative 
notices, details of the final catastrophe, an account of the 
Houghton portrait, a proposed monument, a memorial win- 
doAV at Marquette, and various memoranda and notes. A 
selection from Dr. Houghton's letters occupies 20 pages. The 
Houghton portrait, painted by professor Bradish, hangs in the 
capitol at Lansing. As a portrait it is said to be faithful and 
true to life. It represents the geologist as standing on the 
rocky shore of lake Superior. His dress is that of an out-door 
explorer — a loose summer coat, without vest, with leather sus- 
penders, trousers of a lighter color, and high-top boots. He 
is resting and meditative. One arm is extended and rests on 
his hammer. The other holds his crushed and well remem- 
bered hat. A cliff of lake Superior sandstone rises in the back- 
ground, and in the distance opens "The Portal," which 
constitutes one of the features of the "Pictured Rocks." A 
photo-engraved copy of this painting forms the frontispiece of 
the memoir, and an impression of it accompanies the present 
sketch. 
With the geologist, another feature of the "memoir" will 
secure a cordial welcome, and that is the reproduction in the 
appendix, in abstract or in full, of all Dr. Houghton's reports, 
occupying 160 pages. As these reports have long been out of 
print, at the same time that they have been in very great re- 
quest — the demand seeming to increase with lapse of time — 
these reproductions will be a boon to all geological investiga- 
tors. They embody abstracts of the reports of Dr. Houghton's 
assistants. The fourth annual report, dated February 1, 1841, 
(89 pages) the most important of all, and containing the most 
matured results, is reprinted in full. The accompanjdng 
report of Bela Hubbard, (34 pages) the most important 
one made on the Lower Peninsula, is also reproduced, and 
here includes a colored section prepared at the time, but not 
engraved. The report also of S. W. Higgins, topographer, 
(26 pages) is fully reprinted 
Dr. Houghton died at the age of 36. His brief career was 
one of intense intellectual activity. He was a leader among 
men. His life opened with brilliant promise, and was adorned 
by many honorable successes achieved. Only an act prompted 
by an excess of enthusiasm and the virtue of personal daring, 
