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days and influence, and those who drank deep at this spring drank pure 
and strong. 
“Tonight we are but moons revolving about our luminary, some owing 
a direct and filial descent; centrifugal once, centripetal now; and others, 
many others here, bound by the same tie even though they be less con¬ 
scious of it. Looking tonight as he did a generation ago, and as Moses 
looked when he struck the rock for its living water, he recalls the days 
not only of the lecture-room but those of incessant and arduous work in 
the complicated fields of Old Hampshire County, which are his by a 
peculiar right and by an emphasis of interest. Always venerable, never 
old, a reflector of bright and pungent occasions in this Society when the 
harsh business of the day left more room for good fellowship; intrepid 
and honored, he has all our deference and challenges our best emotions. 
Vergil of the Georgies invoked the “Gods of the Rocks and Soil, my 
father’s Gods andi mine!” Of these we here are the messengers to men. 
Perhaps more than we know, we are so because of Emerson’s inspired 
hammer. 
“Professor Emerson, my words to you are merely the sound of the 
many voices about these tables speaking through my lips. It is the first 
time that Amherst has shown the full harvest of the seed sown by Hitch¬ 
cock, and then by you, and no such occasion could be let pass without our 
erecting here a milestone that should be a memorial of the event and an 
affectionate recognition of your great service to the science of Geology. 
Take, then, this gift, with the assurance of its full meaning in friendly 
remembrance, a symbol of the measure of our regard.” 
Professor Emerson responded in his happiest vein, yet his voice 
betrayed deepest emotions. Several of his former students and 
some of his life-long confreres also spoke feelingly and awakened 
many tender memories. Among former students trained by 
Professor Emerson who afterwards attained marked distinction 
in geological circles are recalled at this moment: Prof. Rufus M. 
Bagg, of Lawrence College; Prof. John M. Boutwell, of Salt 
Lake City; Mr. Arthur B. Call, of Pasadena; Mr. James G. 
Carlton, of Marblehead; Dr. John M. Clarke, of the New York 
State Museum; Dr. C. Whitman Cross, of the U. S. Geological 
Survey; Prof. Julius W. Eggleston, of Cuttingsville; Edward H. 
Emerson, M. E., of New York City; Dr. Henry S. Gane, of Santa 
Barbara; Prof. Adam C. Gill, of Cornell University; Mr. H. 
Norton Johnson, of Los Angeles; Prof. James F. Kemp, of Col¬ 
umbia University; Prof. Fred B. Loomis, of Amherst College; 
Prof. George R. Mansfield, of Washington; Prof. Horace B. 
Patton, of the Colorado School of Mines; Professor Frederick 
