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ROLLIN D. SALISBURY 
graphy was prepared for several of the State surveys. To this 
class belonged also such succinct sketches as the Geography of 
Chicago and its Environs. 
Besides these major works Professor Salisbury published a 
large number of other memoirs and papers, mainly on Glacial 
Geology, and these appeared in the transactions of the learned 
societies, and in the various scientific journals. 
During the last fifteen years of his life our great teacher wrote 
but little. The constantly and rapidly growing duties of an ex¬ 
acting administrative character crowded out every effort towards 
creative productivity. It is another, among many notable in¬ 
stances recently, of the tremendous toll in mentality which our 
institutions of learning take when they inveigle a good investiga¬ 
tor into alluring fields which commoner, unoriginal and less zeal¬ 
ous minds may just as well be made to occupy. 
Professor Salisbury was a^man of commanding presence. He 
was tall and robust yet agile. A very swave and discrete execu¬ 
tive proved Dean Salisbury. His was an elegant and graceful 
person. His mind was disciplined by profound study, and illum¬ 
inated by much learning. He was cultured in the amenities of 
society. His conversation was delightful; and he was an essen¬ 
tially handsome man. Everywhere in college society he was 
hien venu. There was nothing of the uncouth in his conduct. 
As a bachelor it was not incumbent upon him to return to the full 
the hospitalities of which he was the object. By all he was es¬ 
teemed as being a very honest, straightforward and unpretentious 
man. And his friendship was widely courted. 
It is as a great teacher that the name of Rollin D. Salisbury will 
be chiefly and longest remembered. 
