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officer to look after that. Hewas very cordially received and 
introduced by bishop Peck and Drs. Reid and Bristol. His 
inaugural address was a broad and searching discussion of The 
Modern University. 
A portion of the material intended for the report of the Geo- 
logical Survey of Michigan was condensed for Walling’s At/as of 
Michigan, embracing articles on the geology, topography and 
climate of the state. These memoirs subsequently were collected 
in a volume of 121 pages, accompanied by topographical, geolog- 
ical and isothermal charts—six in all. Resulting froin the same 
study he contributed to the Amer. Jour, Ser., July, 1873, a paper 
on The Diagonal Nystem in the Physical Features of Michigan. 
As soon as he had opportunity to learn the financial condition 
of the University, he discovered that it was not what he had been 
led to suppose, and that the financial stringency of the times 
(1873) bore heavily on even what there was of a firm foundation 
for future expectation. Notes which had been given on the 
opening of the institution were met with disheartening non- 
payment, and on others the productive interest was eaten up by 
second-hand men and bankers who had advanced money on them 
and held the short time notes of the University. However, he 
kept up good courage, outwardly, to the end of the scholastic 
year, and in July he sailed for Kurope, intending there to leave his 
family for a short sojourn while his eldest living daughter should 
enjoy the opportunity and advantages of musical instruction by 
the best foreign masters. He returned himself to Syracuse on the 
opening of the new scholastic year. 
He delivered a course of four geological lectures during the 
autumn at Cooper Institute, New York, and two on evolution 
before the ‘‘Drew Theological Seminary,” the latter, in April 
(1874), appearing as a small volume from the press of Harper 
Bros. <A reviewer of this work in the New York Tribune, in con- 
nection with that of Dr. Hodge, on a Similar subject, said: 
The second writer whom we have named the Chancellor of Syracuse 
University, in this state, is a much younger man, less addicted to 
theology than to natural science, not known to so large a public, but held 
in the highest esteem in scientific and literary circles, the author of 
several works of excellent fame in his favorite department of study, with 
a freshness and earnestness of thought which give promise of future 
achievements of high import, and with a mental courage that does not 
shrink from the sacrifice of custom and tradition for loyalty to truth. 
