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EDWARD WILBER BERRY
February 10, 1875-September 20, 1945
BY ERNST CLOOS
EDWARD WILBER BERRY died twenty-nine years ago, and several
of his colleagues undertook the writing of his memorial.
John B. Reeside, ir., was assigned it, but he died in 1958. Ralph
W. Chaney then accepted the task, but died before he completed
it. In 1971 I accepted the assignment because I knew Berry well at
Hopkins for fourteen years, admired him greatly, and am close
to source material. Lloyd W. Stephenson wrote an excellent
account for the Geological Society of America (1946), which I
used extensively.
Berry was an extraordinary man who owed his success to
inherited abilities and hard work. He is an outstanding example
of what an energetic and intelligent man with motivation can
achieve if given an opportunity. He graduated from high
school, never went to a college or university, became an out-
standing geologist and paleontologist, and was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1922 at the age of forty-seven,
which is early for a geologist. His list of publications includes
more than 500 entries and almost 8000 printed pages. He be-
came Professor of Paleontology at Johns Hopkins, then dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences and provost of the university.
He died at age seventy when he was President of the Geological
Society of America.
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
BEGINNINGS
Edward Wilber Berry was born at Newark, New Jersey, on
February 10, 1875. His parents were Abijah Conger Berry and
Anna Wilber Berry. Of his father and mother he said, "I don't
believe there ever lived a kindlier man. My mother was the
much more dominating of the two, with an infinite capacity for
sacrifice and love." The family included a younger sister, Win-
netta, and a still younger brother, Clinton.
Berry graduated from high school in 1890 and would have
liked to go to college, but family finances did not permit it.
While he was still in high school his interest in botany led him
into the field in the region around Raritan Bay in New Jersey,
where he collected and identified fossil plants from Cretaceous
clays along the south shore. With a friend, he studied the flora
of bogs and swamps, and the boys read U.S. Geological Survey
reports and books on botany. He must have studied intensely
and thoroughly because even before coming to Baltimore, in
1905, he published about thirty paleobotanical papers display-
ing considerable knowledge of the subject and skill in illustrat-
~ng.
After high school Berry worked as office boy for the cotton
goods commission house of Denny Poor and Company, and in a
few years he became traveling salesman in the southern states.
In 1897 he accepted a position as business manager for the
Passaic Daily News and between 1897 and 1905 became, in turn,
managing editor, president, and treasurer. During this time he
by no means neglected his primary interests, but intensified his
studies in geology, biology, and paleontology. He began writing
for publication and worked part-time for the New Jersey Geo-
logical Survey (190~1906) and the Geological Survey of North
Carolina (1905-1907~. In 1901 he received the Walker Prize
of the Boston Society of Natural History.
In 1898 Berry married Mary Willard of Passaic. They had
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two sons, Edward Willard, born in 1900, and Charles Thomp-
son, born in Baltimore in 1906.
HOPKINS CAREER
At a field conference of geologists of Maryland, New Jersey,
and the U.S. Geological Survey, William Bullock Clark, head
of the Maryland Geological Survey and also chairman of the geol-
ogy department at Johns Hopkins, was so impressed by Berry's
knowledge and personality that he persuaded him to come to
Baltimore. Clark's recommendation of April 3, 1906, to Presi-
dent Remsen describes the beginning at Hopkins as follows:
"I recommend the appointment of E. W. Berry as assistant in
Paleontology at $500.- a year, the understanding being that he
will have charge of our rapidly growing collections in geology,
paleontology, and mineralogy and will also aid in the labora-
tory in paleontology. I know of nothing that will more
strengthen the work in geology than the appointment of a
capable man like Mr. Berry to take charge of the work outlined.
Our collections have gotten beyond our control and have
reached that point where they are frequently unavailable for
instruction. We have tens of thousands of specimens and with
no one who has the time to give to the care of this material. Mr.
Berry has special aptitude for such work and is furthermore an
experienced paleontologist and for a number of years past has
written extensively on paleontological subjects, particularly in
the field of paleobotany where he is recognized as an authority
on certain portions of the subject. At my urgent request he
has been in residence with us here for a year and I am anxious
to hold him here if possible. He is a mature man who does not
contemplate going forward to the attainment of the Doctor's
degree but is a thorough scholar and a most admirable man for
us to retain." A second letter, by the Hopkins botanist, Pro-
fessor Duncan S. Johnson, endorsed this recommendation, and
the appointment was made.
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This was Berry's opportunity, and he accepted the challenge.
In the president's report for 1906 the following item appeared:
"Mr. Berry has been engaged in a study of the Potomac floras of
New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina for the surveys of
those states, and is already engaged in the preparation of several
interesting articles on the same." He was then not yet listed as
faculty and carried no courses, but in 1908 Clark recommended
that Berry be made an instructor and the salary doubled. Dur-
ing these first years he listened to geology classes unobtrusively
in the back of the room, quietly absorbing information. From
1907 he worked as a staff member of the Maryland Geological
Survey. In 1910 Mr. Berry was promoted to associate (now
called "assistant professor"), and his name appeared in the
university catalog as "Mr. Berry, Paleobotany" and jointly with
Clark under Paleontology and General Geology. In April 1913
the chairman recommended promotion to associate professor:
"Mr. Berry is carrying on investigations of much moment in
his special field of paleobotany, several monographs and more
than a score of other significant papers having been issued by
him during the past three years. Mr. Berry has rapidly come
to the front as the leading paleobotanist in this country and his
work has elicited much favorable comment on the part of the
leading paleobotanists in Europe." In 1916 Professor Clark
urged that Mr. Berry be advanced to Professor of Paleontology
because "the influence which he exerts over our students is very
pronounced, probably greater than that of any other member
of our staff." From then on, he was listed simply as "E. W.
Berry, Professor of Paleontology," in contrast to all other mem-
bers of the faculty, who listed degrees, dates, titles, and, at times,
several lines of data. His entry remained unchanged until he
became dean. The contrast was striking and very typical of the
man, who was no friend of pomp, glitter, and prima dontlas.
After the death of W. B. Clark, Berry became the dominating
Personality in the department. He taught a variety of courses
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reaching a large number of students who were profoundly
affected, and nobody in the department remained untouched.
PROFESSOR AND STUDENTS
Berry was an inspiring teacher, and he "turned on" many
students who owe him a great deal. He was intolerant of laziness
or mediocrity, and his appraisal of his fellowman was prevail-
ingly by instinct and common sense and rarely inaccurate. He
made mistakes, but since he was very kind and warmhearted he
was sympathetic to those who tried hard but did not quite suc-
ceed. One of his students who was not in his field and was afraid
of his oral examination writes, "But what I remember most
about him was his exceeding kindness to all graduate students.
His action during that oral was that of a gentleman."
Another student writes, "When I was at Hopkins he gave
courses in paleobotany, invertebrate paleontology, and on classic
European localities. He lectured, for example, on the Paris
basin as though he had been all over it, but he was never in
France."
Berry gave a whole generation of geology students a feeling
for creative research, inspired by his own example. He was
never hurried or harassed and was always accessible in his room,
seated at his big rolltop desk, on which was placed a board that
was used for all his writing. The walls around him were lined
with bookshelves and books.
If the function of a graduate professor is not to teach facts
and theories but to inculcate a critical attitude toward one's own
ideas, as well as those of others, Berry did extremely well.
His Saturday morning seminars were famous and are well
remembered by all who ever attended. They lasted four hours
and typically began with a critical review of some famous text-
book. Deflation of the near great was legendary, and though he
was caustic he really intended to amuse and shock his audiences.
Following the review was a report by one of the students on
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a self-selected topic. The last portion of the seminar was a
topical discussion on, for instance, cross-bedding, mudcracks,
sorting, or anything else having to do with stratified rocks.
Berry tried to keep arguments going. He rarely lectured, but
made the students dig things out by themselves. He would
demolish an illogical report, but mostly he encouraged the
students to criticize each other. He had a remarkable gift for
creating interest. Some of the sessions became a bit sterile at
times but never for long. He would try to stir things up, but
never took the floor for more than a few minutes. He was an
excellent blackboard artist. He illustrated all his lectures and
could make his fossils quickly come to life by a few deft strokes
with the chalk.
Once a month the Berrys invited the students and faculty
into their home after dinner. Everybody gathered in the living
room or, in later years, in the library, where he would read from
a classic work in geology or an outside speaker would tell of his
works and travels. Ensuing discussions were at times quite
heated because Berry held strong opinions, and if he disagreed
he said emphatically what he thought about an idea or the
person who proposed it. Nobody was spared, no matter how
high a position or scientific reputation he held. He taught his
students to examine ideas carefully and never to be afraid to
challenge them. Many of his students still appreciate the
direction their whole lives were given by E. W. Berry.
SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION
Berry's scientific output was amazing. There are numerous
short notes but also many longer articles and very substantial
monographs. The number of entries exceeds 500, most of which
are illustrated. The bibliography of Stephenson (1946) lists
1028 figures and 585 plates, but some articles are listed as
"illustrated," and numbers are therefore only approximate.
Even if many illustrations are photographs, almost all plates also
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include drawings. The preparation of the illustrations alone
must have consumed very much time, and the total for writing
and illustrating is large. If one has seen the lack of assistance of
those days, one wonders how this was accomplished. When I
arrived at Hopkins, in 1931, the Maryland Geological Survey
had one secretary-typist, the Department of Geology none. A
general assistant mailed publications for the survey and took
photographs with an old box camera for publications of the
survey. Otherwise the faculty did their own work in their
offices. There were no research laboratories for faculty or stu-
dents. There also was no "Illustration Division"; neither were
there National Science Foundation grants or research assistants.
Berry's first publications were mostly notes and brief, illus-
trated descriptions of fossil plants or localities. They reveal a
growing familiarity with the subject as well as with techniques
of handling the material, identification, description, terminol-
ogy, ant! publication. This was during the time when he was
working at the Passaic Daily News, where he must also have been
successful, judging from his advances within that organization.
In the annual report of the New Jersey Geological Survey
for 1904, published in 1906, there are two of Berry's articles.
One is "A Brief Sketch of Fossil Plants"; the other is "The Flora
of the Cliffwood Clays." Both are most revealing and much
above the average for a state survey report. The sketch on fossil
plants is of interest to anyone interested in natural science. It is
a broad review outlining the relevance of paleobotany from
the botanical or biological and from the geological points of
view. Berry discusses evolution, definition of a species, and rela-
tion of fossil to recent plants and reaches far back into history
and the first recognition of fossil plants. The sketch is also a
summary on geologic time, evolution, and plant classification
and is well illustrated. Considering the background and the
author's job this reveals a considerable amount of reading and
understanding, not only as a fossil collector but as a scientist
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and geologist. He wrote the report in 1904 at age thirty-four in
his "spare time," which cannot have been plentiful. The second
report contains extensive lists of paleobotanical data and species,
many of which were named by Berry himself, showing that he
must have collected extensively in the field and prepared his
material at home.
One may divide Berry's publications into four broad cate-
gories. First is a vast number of short, mostly illustrated notes,
a page or so long, with descriptions, observations, corrections of
nomenclature, and general paleontological inventory. Second
are many papers in which the cataloged data are placed in broad
geological, historical, and biological context. These articles are
good reading, as are the New Jersey report mentioned above, an
address to the Philosophical Society on "Tertiary Floras of the
Atlantic Gulf Coast," and several articles in the Scientific
Monthly, such as "Rilly, A Fossil Lake" or "The Mayence Basin,
A Chapter of Geologic History." Here Berry's vivid and interest-
ing style is delightful and brings dull subjects to life in an ex-
traordinary way. The "Jurassic Lagoons of Solnhofen" deals
with paleontology, general philosophy, history, and geology and
should be read by all students who feel that paleontology is a
dull subject. There are many similar examples, such as "Far
Away and Long Ago," where Patagonia becomes an interesting
area and geologic history an important factor in today's dis-
cussion of tectonics. Other articles deal with tectonics, con-
tinental drift, or the origin of the Andes. The article "Shall
We Return to Cataclysmal Geology" is a gem and good reading
for all scientists. The third category of Berry's publications
includes the large monographs of the U.S. Geological Survey
and the Maryland Survey and his contributions to the geology
and paleobotany of South America. The latter are the fruit of
his travels to South America on several expeditions. The com-
prehensive works are Berry's major contributions, and his keen
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appreciation of the meaning of fossil plants led him to see
forests and prairies, coastal swamps and steaming jungles, where
most geologists saw merely fossil leaves. Finally, there are many
short publications in newspapers, such as an article on the con-
tributions of Charles Lyell, editorials, discussions of educational
policies at Hopkins, and others.
As can be exepected with such a volume of publications, not
all are of equal quality or weight, and some of Berry's work has
been severely criticized. It has been said that he was too quick
in submitting manuscripts for publication. He was aware of
that himself and once told a student who referred to the en-
cyclopedia as authority, "That stuff is no good; I wrote it my-
self." On the other hand, when we were discussing publications
needed by younger faculty for advancement, he said, "If a man
has something he must say, it will come out, because he is alive.
All we want are signs of life."
In spite of the administrative diversion, Berry's production
continued, if at a declining rate. The crest, however, is between
1920 and 1-930, when he was forty-five to ~fty-five. After that
the writing focused on larger papers with broader application
and scope. One of the most interesting and readable papers,
"The Origin of Land Plants," was published in 1945.
DEAN AND PROVOST
In 1929 Berry was appointed Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences as successor to Professor Ames, who became presi-
dent. Though Dr. Ames did not appoint a provost, Professor
Berry served as his right-hand man and adviser, essentially as
provost.
The appointment was noted by many, inside and outside of
the university, and Berry said in 1929, "Most people may feel
that Hopkins took a radical step, making a dean out of an un-
educated man. But the truth of the matter is that education
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need not stop with the end of schooling. After all, it is not what
we learn at an institution that is of value to us as much as the
attitude we develop toward all learning."
The dean did not organize an administrative apparatus, but
dealt with students' needs and problems and with those of the
institution in a very direct and uncomplicated way. He was
accessible, and nobody remained in the dark about the dean's
views, because he expressed them openly and very forcefully.
Berry made many important contributions to university
policy and scholarly efforts, largely enforcing fundamental
Hopkins philosophy, which was not then and is not now uni-
versal in the country.
Two important areas stand out: the educational purpose of
the university and college, and the role of athletics at Hopkins.
Berry thought there should be three distinct kinds of col-
leges: one where rich men's sons spend a pleasant four years in
contact with culture; a second one for drifters who need strict
supervision and persuasion to find out what they want; and a
third one for the rare minority of bright young men who have
selected a goal and are willing to work toward it. He felt four
years of college are not necessary, because after two years a stu-
dent is ready for either serious graduate work or for business.
For the mature student there should be as few rules as possible
and no credit or marking system. A student should be allowed
to select his own course and pursue it unhindered.
This system had been introduced as the "Goodnow plan,"
making it possible for a student to bypass the A.B. degree and
to enter a department for graduate work after two years or after
making up fundamentals. Berry very forcefully favored and
applied this philosophy, which is still working, at Hopkins today
and has recently been reinforced.
A second concern of the dean was the abolition of inter-
collegiate and commercialized football. He felt that the uni-
versity should provide ample facilities for all kinds of sports,
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
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The age and affinities of the Tertiary flora of western Canada.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 11:671-73.
A banana in the Tertiary of Colombia. Am. l. Sci., 10:530-37.
Flora and ecology of so-called Bridger beds of Wind River Basin,
Wyoming. Pan-Am. Geol., 44: 357-68.
A new Salvinia from the Eocene. Torreya, 25:116-18.
The age of uplift of the Andes. Hrvatsko prirodostovno drustvo
u Zagrebu Glasnik, 37: 3-29.
1926
Pleistocene plants from North Carolina.
Paper, 140: 97-119.
U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof.
Terminalia in the lower Eocene of southeastern North America.
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 53:59-65.
Pre-Columbian petrified wood industry. Pan-Am. Geol., 45:273-76.
Antaeus, or the future of geology.
Science, 63:475-76.
The fossil seeds from the Titanotherium beds of Nebraska, their
identity and significance. Am. Museum Novitates, No. 221,
8 pp.
The term psychozoic.
Science, 64:16.
Cocos and Phymatocaryon in the Pliocene of New Zealand. Am.
I. Sci., 12:181-84.
Tertiary floras from British Columbia. Bull. Geol. Surv. Can.,
42:91-116.
A fossil palm fruit from the middle Eocene of northwestern Peru.
Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum, 70:1-4.
The romance of collecting fossil plants. Natur. Hist., 26:475-85.
Fossil leaves from Beaver County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Geo-
logical Survey Bulletin, 38:34-35.
On fossil plants from Paskapoo formation of Alberta. Proc. Roy.
Soc. Can., 20: 189-200.
The age of certain Mesozoic geological formations in western Can-
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1927
Frank Hall Knowlton, 1860-1926. Science, 65:7-8; also in Am. l.
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The term Oligocene and some climatic considerations. Am. J. Sci.,
13:252-56.
The age of uplift of the Andes. Kramberger Festschrift, pp. 1-27.
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The Baltic amber deposits. Sci. Monthly, 24:268-78.
Petrified fruits and seeds from the Oligocene of Peru. Pan-Am.
Geol., 47: 121-32.
New plant records from the Pleistocene. Torreya, 27:21-27.
Eocene botany of our Gulf States. Pan-Am. Geol., 47:269-78.
Cycads in the Shinarump conglomerate of southern Utah. l. Wash.
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A new type of caddie case from the lower Eocene of Tennessee.
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Devonian floras. Am. J. Sci., 14:109-20.
Links with Asia before the mountains brought aridity to the west-
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1928
The flora of the Esmaralda formation in western Nevada. Proc.
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Weichselia in the lower Cretaceous of Texas. l. Wash. Acad. Sci.,
18: 1-5.
An ammonoid from the Carboniferous of Peru.
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A caddie case of leaf pieces from the Miocene of Washington. I.
Wash. Acad. Sci., 18: 60-61.
Stones of Celtis from the western United States.
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A petrified walnut from the Miocene of Nevada.
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Shall we return to cataclysmal geology? Am. J. Sci., 17:1-12.
An Anacardium from the Eocene of Texas. .T- Wash. Acad. Sci.,
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A flora of Green River age in the Wind River Basin of Wyoming.
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i. Wash. Acad. Sci., 20:458-63.
Geology of southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. In:
Can. Dep. Mines, Geol. Surv. Mem. No. 163, pp. 63-64; also in
Summary Report, 1929B: 57-58.
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1931
Plan for reorganization of graduate work at Johns Hopkins Univer-
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ference, pp. 53-56.
An insect-cut leaf from the lower Eocene.
Am.~.Sci.21:301-3.
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