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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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FACULTY FIGURES 277 Grierson's raid; he was attracted to science, and became curator of the scientific museum at the State Normal University; and soon after he was instrumental in or* gaxdzing the State Natural History Survey. Like Bur* rill, he had to give up many promising lines of research when he became dean of the college of science; but he still found time to prosecute the principal of his investigations, and since 1909, when he resigned as professor of zoology, he has devoted himself anew to tasks long ago planned. His writings on scientific subjects, contained chiefly in the publications of the two State offices which he has headed, are voluminous. The alumni who cannot remember the kindly Prof. C. W. Rolfe, a graduate in the class of 1872, who returned to take charge of the department of geology in 1881, was responsible for much of its growth, and still teaches in it, and under whom instruction in ceramics had its beginnings, are rare. Prof. A. N. Talbot was one of five graduates in engineering in 1881, and after practical work in the West returned midway in Peabody's administration to become assistant professor of engineering and mathematics. He later established a laboratory for testing materials when the only other in the country was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and this laboratory is now the best in the United States. Hi% investigations have been carried far into several divisions of engineering, and he has become, in the words of a University which awarded him an honorary doctorate, "master of engineering in its relations to railway, hydraulic, and sanitary construction, eminent as a teacher of theoretical and applied mechanics, prolific and respected writer on these subjects." Prof. S. W. Parr, who was graduated three years later than Talbot, and has been much like him in his unostentatious work, is
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