926 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
eye to twinkle and his lingers to be pushed through his shock 
of hair when the laugh was really due. The language of his 
lectures was clear and forceful, with many expressive words of 
his own coining; and if the lectures themselves made the course 
an over-easy one, they seldom failed to interest, and no work 
in the university was more popular than the beginning course 
in geology officially known as “Natural History 4.” His 
written letters had an air of distinction and were notably free 
from emendations or blemishes, but they could be read only by 
one who had mastered his personal set of hieroglyphics. 
To shoulder the responsibilities of the deanship of the Law¬ 
rence school and to conduct his classes in geology and paleon¬ 
tology, with the additional burdens which his personal interest 
in the students imposed upon him, would seem to require all 
the time of a busy man. Yet these were but a part of the activ¬ 
ities of this versatile man who was accustomed to work six¬ 
teen hours in the day. A very much larger circle came into 
touch with Professor Shaler through his published writings. 
Possessed of a good literary style, he was the best known pop¬ 
ular writer in America upon scientific subjects. The range 
of his writings was as great as their volume, for they treated 
almost as much of the humanities as of the sciences. Some 
twenty-five or thirty volumes, besides unnumbered magazine 
articles and scientific papers, are left as evidence of the wide 
range of his thought and his amazing capacity for work. 
Plis reader was more frequently the person of general cul¬ 
ture than the specialist in his chosen field; though he publish¬ 
ed longer or shorter papers in the Keports of the United States 
Geological survey, the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 
America^, etc. “The Story of Our Continent/ 7 “The Inter¬ 
pretation of Nature/ 7 “Illustrations of the Earth’s Surface/ 7 
“Sea and Land 77 , “American Highways/ 7 “Domesticated Ani¬ 
mals/ 7 “The United States of America/ 7 “Kentucky, a Pioneer 
Commonwealth/ 7 “The Individual/ 7 “A Study of Life and 
Death/ 7 “The Citizen/ 7 “The Neighbor/ 7 and “Man and the 
Earth/ 7 are book titles which indicate the fields where he wrote 
with greatest success. His system of philosophy is outlined in 
