36 The American Geologist. January, 1902. 
1888, and wrote for it a large number of articles, reviews and 
criticisms. 
It was his fortune to have made in 1884 in Perry county, 
Pennsylvania, the discovery of a new genus (two species) of. 
fossil fishes in the Silurian rocks at a lower level than any fish 
remains had been found before. These were as he then said 
the ‘oldest indisputable vertebrate animals which the werld has 
yet seen.” He worked out the specimens and the subject with 
great labor and patience and named the species Palacaspis» 
americana and P. bitruncata. Although his position about 
this discovery was controverted by many experts at the t:me, 
it has never been shaken in the least from that day to this. 
The personal demeanor of this man was so superior and re- 
fined as to be a model for every man and the envy of most 
of them. He was always gentle, never intense save when con- 
fronted by untruth and dishonor. He was non-combative yet 
keenly enjoyed discussion; if he was injured or felt himself to 
be, he was silent. He would discuss but never contend, unless 
it was for some vital principle or against what he thought 
an injustice; and he never lost his temper or his patience. 
Thereby he could always lift a heated debate out of personali- 
ties and into dignified discussion. | He had an abiding love of 
justice and would struggle for it, but always with diginty. 
When a decision rested with himself his judicial sense stood 
so erect that it would sometimes tip backward. This was the 
case especially when he had or could have any personal in- 
terest in the decision. If his own children were in his ¢lasses 
he held them to a severer rule than the rest of the students. 
With what he regarded as public or private wrong he could 
never compromise in the smallest degree. Like most of the 
great reformers he never learned that much of the best prog- 
ress of the world comes as a matter of compromise. Because 
there was corruption in politics he could rarely be induced to 
go to the polls to vote. 
He enjoyed exercise and work. — His fire-wood he bought 
in large sticks so that he could have the exercise of sawing 
and splitting it. His book-cases were mostly made with his 
own hands, and he bound creditably many of his numerous 
volumes of periodicals. Geologist and botanist that he was, 
he enjoyed tramping over the country and his students fre- 
