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the works last mentioned!. When past sixty he wrote the Phi 
Beta Kappa poem and also a five-act drama in blank verse is¬ 
sued in five volumes and entitled “Elizabeth of England/’ to 
prove that prolonged scientific study does not unfit a man for 
literary activities. \ 
The more strictly scientific side of Professor Shaler’s activ¬ 
ities may perhaps he best indicated by the offices which he 
held. Between 1862 and 1879, he was director of the Geo¬ 
logical survey of Kentucky. Erom 1884 to 1890, he was geol¬ 
ogist in charge of the Atlantic division of the United States 
Geological survey. He was at different times one of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts commissioners upon the topographic atlas of the 
state, upon state highways, upon agriculture, and upon the ex¬ 
termination of the gipsy moth. In 1895 he was elected pres¬ 
ident of the Geological Society of America. He was a mem¬ 
ber of the National Academy of Sciences. 
The place of Professor Shaler is one not likely soon to be 
filled, since the peculiar gifts which he possessed are seldom 
all realized in one man. His loss is one to the country at large 
as well as to his own community. 
William Herbert Hobbs. 
STEPHEN VAUGHN SHIPMAN. 
The following sketch is taken almost verbatim from a me¬ 
morial address prepared for the Illinois commandery of the 
Loyal Legion by Kev. Samuel Eallows, John M. Van Osdal 
and Obed W. Wallis. 
Stephen Vaughn Shipman was born at Montrose, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, January 26, 1825, and received his education in the 
academy at that place. For several years he worked at the print¬ 
ing business, which was abandoned on account of failing health. 
He next gave his attention to the study of architecture and was 
associated with his father, who was a builder and contractor 
