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Thus happily freed from a large portion of the profitless petty 
duties and annoyances of domestic obligation, and from the time¬ 
killing amenities imposed by the conduct of a proper social estab¬ 
lishment, he was enabled to concentrate all his best efforts and 
great powers upon his life’s work. It was doubtless this for¬ 
tunate circumstance that permitted him, in addition to his more 
productive activities, to perform with such marvelous success 
for more than a quarter of a century those exacting and multi¬ 
tudinous duties coincident with the deanship of one of the great . 
universities of our land. In this difficult field he certainly dis¬ 
played genuine genius. No one man alone and unaided will 
probably ever again fill so acceptibly the post recently made vacant. 
Ideal teacher that he was Professor Salisbury always took es¬ 
pecial delight in spending his vacations with his students in the 
field. Thus several summers were devoted to the New Jersey 
work with Kummel, Peat and Knapp. In similar manner other 
summers were given up to the Cordilleran region, the Big Horn, 
San Juan and southern Rockies coming in successively for par¬ 
ticular attention. Devil’s Lake and the Baraboo region were in 
this way also frequently visited. 
Besides his connection with the Peary Relief Expedition to 
Greenland, Salisbury early spent a year in German universities, 
during which period he also gave particular attention to a study 
of the Glacial deposits of the north German lowland. Recently 
he made an extended trip through South America where he had 
opportunity to investigate at close range the glaciation of the 
southern hemisphere. 
As Professor Frank Leverett well observes: “The great educa¬ 
tional value of Salisbury’s writings stands out clearly in all of his 
papers whether classed as scientific or as educational. He was 
above all a teacher, and the fruits of his teachings are to be seen 
in the well-trained pupils who now fill important positions in many 
of the prominent institutions of learning in the Middle West.” 
Professor Salisbury’s greatest service to science was unques¬ 
tionably as a trainer of young men; yet his contributions to knowl¬ 
edge were not inconsiderable. These were mainly in the field of 
Glacial Geology. Most notable were the “Preliminary Paper on 
the Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi Valley,” in conjunc¬ 
tion with Professor Chamberlin, his glacial studies in Greenland, 
