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sure time to the work, aided by a corps of competent assistants, 
brought together an enormous amount of information concerning 
the geology, paleontology, botany and zodlogy of the State which 
has been published ina series of thick octavo volumes. He also 
did considerable paleontological work for the Geological Survey 
of Illinois. 
He was one of the judges of Building and Ornamental Stones 
at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876, and wrote 
the report thereon (Group I. pp. 107-171). 
In 1884 he was appointed one of the paleontologists of the 
United States Geological Survey with especial reference to his 
favorite studies on fossil fishes and fossil plants. Two quarto 
fully illustrated monographs on fossil fishes, published in 1888 and 
1889, and two yet unpublished monographs on fossil plants, re- 
sulted from this appointment. : 
In 1867 Dr. Newberry received the degree of LL. D. from his 
Alma Mater. He was an original member of the National 
Academy of Sciences ; an original member of the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science, and its President in 
1867-68 ; President of the New York Academy of Sciences from 
1868 to 1892; President of the Torrey Botanical Club, 1880 to 
1890; and a foreign member of the Geological Society of London, 
from which he received the Murchison Gold Medal for distinguished 
Services to geological science, in 1888. 
Dy, Newberry married Miss Sarah B. Gaylord in Cleveland, 
Ohio, in 1848, who, with six of their seven children, five sons and 
one daughter, survive him. His eldest son died some years ago. 
In Botany the name of Newberry is commemorated in the 
genus Newderrya, Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. viii. 55 (1864), of the 
Monotropee, which must, however, give way to the previously pub- 
lished flemitones, A. Gray, Bot. Williamson’s Exp. 80, Pl. XII. 
(1857). Ihave had the plate of this plant Hemitones congesia, 
A. Gray, Newberrya congesta, Torr., reproduced from the original, 
slightly reduced, and copies of it accompany this notice (Plate 
CXLII.) N. spicata, A. Gray, is another described species. 
Both are from the Pacific coast. 
The following species have been named in his honor: 
