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years of residence in New York he was most active in furthering 
the work of the Lyceum, a frequent contributor to its proceedings 
and the author of several conchological papers which were printed 
in its Annals. In connexion with his father, Mr. W. C. Redfield, 
he published, in Vol. IV. of the Annals, the first description of 
fossil fishes from the Mesozoic rocks of America, proposing the 
name of the genus Catopfterus and its type species C. gracilis, be- 
sides some others, for specimens from the Triassic beds at Dur- 
ham, Conn. He was thus the pioneer in this important branch 
in American palaeontology. He held the office of Recording 
Secretary of the Lyceum in the years 1887-8, and of Correspond- 
ing Secretary for the entire period from 1839 to 1860. After 
his removal to Philadelphia he did not lose his interest in the Ly- 
ceum, but continued his relations with it as a Corresponding Mem- 
ber, not only through the whole period of its existence under the 
old name, but also when the organization was changed and en- 
larged into the Academy and down to the time of his death. 
When the memorial volume was published, in 1887, Mr. Redfield 
furnished a large amount of most valuable data and reminiscences, 
which are embodied and acknowledged at many points in the book. 
Although personally known to but few of our present mem- 
bers, many have known of his great work in connexion with the 
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and by reason of 
this, and his early prominence in our Society, he has had our pro- 
found respect and grateful esteem. It is, therefore, 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Academy that in the death 
of Mr. John H. Redfield, American science has lost a critical and 
enthusiastic student, a liberal patron and a devoted friend; and the 
Academy a co-laborer who greatly aided in its early period of 
organization, as an officer and a scientific investigator, and who 
was almost the last to connect’ its present membership with the 
generation of its founders and pioneers. 
FROM THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Mr. John H. Redfield, a highly esteemed active member of the 
Club since the time of its organization, the last but one of its 
original incorporators, a frequent contributor to our publications, 
the Conservator of the Botanical Section of the Philadelphia 
Academy of Natural Sciences, and well-known to the botanical 
