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JOHN CASPER BRANNER 
to me but added a deeper significance to the words then spoken. 
Doctor Branner’s life is a great heritage to Stanford University, 
for California, and for the Nation.” 
Professor Branner’s services to science were widely recognized. 
He was elected to membership to many learned societies. Among 
others, he belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, the 
American Philosophical Society, the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, being its Vice-President in 1890, 
the American Geographical Society, of which he was president in 
1900, the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of 
Edinburgh, the Societe geologique de France, the American Seis- 
mological Society, being its President in 1911, the Geological 
Society of America of which he was an original fellow, besides 
member of the several geographical and geological societies of the 
various Brazilian states. 
Of academic degrees he received his B. S. from Cornell Uni¬ 
versity in 1874; Ph.D. from the State University of Indiana in 
1885; L. E. D. from the Arkansas University in 1887; also from 
Maryville College in 1909; and from California University in 
1915; Sc. D. from Chicago University in 1916. The Academy 
of Sciences of Philadelphia conferred upon him, in 1911, the 
Hayden Medal “In recognition of the value of his contributions 
to geological science, and of the benefits derived from his able 
and conscientious discharge of the official trusts confided to him.” 
Besides his early governmental commissions to South America 
he served as special United States Commissioner on the Panama 
Canal, and on the California Earthquake Commission in 1906. 
Doctor Branner’s geological publications covered wide scope. 
In addition to the more pretentious volumes on Brazilian and 
Arkansan geology there are innumerable articles and memoirs 
which appeared in the transactions of the learned societies and in 
the geological journals. His publications related mainly to science 
applied, the culminating effort being perhaps the “Syllabus of a 
Course of Lectures on Economic Geology,” written in collabora¬ 
tion with Professor J. F. Newsom. This is one of the best out¬ 
lines on the subject ever printed. For conciseness, clearness of 
statement, and logical arrangement this volume probably has no 
rival. 
Of his many addresses few found their way into print. Fewer 
