CALVIN PORTRAIT 
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period its proper taxonomic value according to actual chronologi¬ 
cal standards. 
.Unvkiling of the Calvin Portrait 
The Iowa Academy of Sciences recently did a most graceful 
act. It presented to the State of Iowa a life-size portrait of the 
late Professor Samuel Calvin. In initiating this practice the 
Academy entered upon a new and untried mission which is 
worthy of wide emulation. It was a happy thought to thus re¬ 
member its most distinguished Fellow. A great State in doing 
homage to the name and fame of its nation-renowned scientist 
thus expressed its judgment of the true place he should hold among 
her sons who have done her greatest honor. 
Iowa in accepting such memorial to hang upon the walls of the 
great art gallery of the Commonwealth’s Hall of History takes 
on generous and enlightened asi)ect. It not only recognizes of¬ 
ficially intellectual achievement but she ranges scientists along side 
of her other great men — the pioneer personages who founded the 
State, her statesmen, her executives, her public men, her generals, 
her clergymen, and her litterateurs. In the Historical Building 
there now hang the portraits of Charles Wachsmuth, Frank 
Springer and Samuel Calvin — geologists of whom the State may 
well be proud, towering as they do even among her most illustrious 
sons. This public and official recognition of high scientific en¬ 
deavor is most fitting. Posterity will acclaim the selection and 
pronounce its benediction. 
The portrait is the work of Iowa’s most distinguished artist, 
Charles A. Cumming; and all who have viewed the picture aud¬ 
ibly give expressions of realization of the consummate skill with 
which the painting is executed. 
In the presentation of the Calvin portrait, Professor Thomas 
H. Macbride remarked: 
Unable to appear in person for the present program, I have been urged 
to present myself in some brief address. This I assure you is accomplished 
not without difficulty. In such an attempt one misses so very much, if 
but in prospect, the happy concourse and sympathy of one’s friends, the 
inspiration of fond, familiar scenes. 
However, in the present instance, the task is lightened very much by 
virtue of the theme, and in the very purpose of our present simple, 
