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B. Peck, of Lafayette College; Prof George B. Shattuck, of Vas- 
sar College; Matthew van Siclen, M. E., of the Bureau of Mines. 
Two other of the old Emersonian students were conspicuous by 
their absence. They beckoned from the other side. Suddenly 
cut down in the very plentitude of their great powers Prof. George 
H. Williams, and Prof. William B. Clark, through their marvel¬ 
ous observational faculties, their superior enthusiasm for their 
chosen science, and their untiring activities at Johns Hopkins 
University, of Baltimore, produced in their only too brief careers 
25 per. cent of the leading geological minds of the country, ac¬ 
cording to Professor Cattell’s recently published statistics. This 
tremendous impulse to American geological mentality may have 
been after all somewhat hereditary, and perhaps may be traced 
back to old Amherst. Quien sabe? 
Professor Emerson is not a teacher alone; nor a closet natural¬ 
ist by any means. Amidst full schedules of college duties he is 
an ardent out-doors lover. All out-doors is his field of endeavor. 
As a field geologist his work is extensive and important. For 
many years connected with the Federal Geological Survey, his 
comprehensive reports on Old Hampshire County, the Holyoke 
Quadrangle, and the Geology of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 
amply attest his excessive activities and enthusiasm. Besides 
these sumptuous volumes he constantly publishes for nearly half 
a century, until a bare list of titles numbers nearly a hundred. 
The wide scope of his energies is perhaps no better indicated than 
by perusal of the subjects of his contributions to geological science. 
So, fellow geologists. Ye Editor lifts his glass to the happiness, 
and the strength and the grandeur of the noble Patriarch of 
Amherst, beloved Dean of our profession; may he long live and 
prosper. 
Bibuography 
Die Miasmulde von Markoldendorf bei Einbeck. (Inaugural Dissertation 
an der Universitat Gottingen, 50 Pp., 1870.) 
Von Seebach’s “Earthquake of March 6, 1872, in Central Germany.” (Am. 
Jour. Sci., (3), Vol. VIII, Pp. 405-412, 1874.) 
Great Dyke of Foyaite, or Eloeolite-Syenite, Cutting the Hudson River 
Shales in Northwestern New Jersey. (Am. Jour. Sci., (3), Vol. 
XXIII, Pp. 302-308, 1882.) 
Dykes of Micaceous Diabase Penetrating the Bed of Zinc Ore at Franklin 
Furnace, N. J. (Am. Jour. Sci., (3), Vol. XXIII, Pp. 376-379, 1882.) 
