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A. B. Lewis, Notes on the Ethnography of the Columbian Valley. 

 Clark Wissler, Notes on the Ethnography of Montana and Alberta. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



R. S. Woodworth, 



Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



April 2, 1906. 



The Academy met at 8:15 o'clock, at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, President Britton presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



It was reported from the Council that Professors Kemp, Osborn and 

 Hovey had been appointed delegates to the International Congress of 

 Geologists at Mexico to be held in September and that it was suggested by 

 the Council that the Academy inscribe itself as a member of the Congress. 



A memorial notice of the late Dr. Augustus Choate Hamlin, prepared 

 by the Committee appointed for the purpose, was then read as follows: 



In the death of Dr. Augustus Choate Hamlin, of Bangor, Maine, American 

 mineralogy has suffered the loss of a very interesting and able student and promoter, 

 especially in relation to our native gem-stones. Dr. Hamlin has long been known 

 as the chief authority upon the tourmalines and associated minerals of Oxford County, 

 Maine; and it is largely due to his enthusiastic studies and active practical interest, 

 that the localities in that region have been opened and worked for the past thirty 

 years, their treasures made known to the public, and their finest specimens gathered 

 and preserved in important public collections. 



The famous old locality of colored lithia tourmalines, at Paris Hill, was first 

 discovered in 1820 by Dr. Hamlin's father, Hon. Elijah L. Hamlin, and his uncle, 

 Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, who forty years later was elected Vice-President of the 

 United States, on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln. It was natural that Dr. Ham- 

 lin, who was a man of cultivated tastes, should feel a deep interest in the further 

 development of this locality and its remarkable minerals, and this he accomplished 

 in important ways in the later years of his life. Dr. Hamlin's tall, commanding 

 figure, with great heavy eyebrows, moustache and hair, combined with a deep, 

 impressive voice, and clear sharp eyes, made him a strong personality one rarely 

 meets. 



Augustus Choate Hamlin was bom in 1829, at Columbia, Maine. He graduated 

 at Bowdoin College in 1851, and at the Medical School of Harvard University in 

 1855. After further study in Europe, he began medical practice at Bangor, Maine; 

 but in four years the Civil War broke out and he at once entered the army as assist- 



