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of students with limited means, and in a quiet way extended aid to many 

 of them. He never lost an opjjortunity for service to his friends or 

 others in need; sympathy, helpfulness and loyalty were his characteristic 

 qualities as a man and friend; and the loss to all of us who knew and 

 loved him is irreparable." — J. H. Comstock, Science, December 29, 

 1016, p. 913. 



Hundreds of students now scattered to all parts of the country 

 have sat at his feet, and can testify to the quiet, unassuminj^ scholarship 

 and sympathetic instruction to which they were there exposed. Many 

 have attained to eminence in horticulture and forestry through the 

 working out of the interest and enthu.siasm he engendered. 



As a member of the Academy he was practically always at its 

 meetings with an important contribution to make. His presentation 

 was always interesting and plain. Continually alert for op]:)ortunities 

 by which the Academy could serve the Commonwealth and Science, he 

 became the channel through which we received our annual, financial aid 

 for research from our loyal patron and life member, Mr. Emerson 

 McMillin. He served on the trustee committee from 1901 to the time 

 of his death and wisely discharged his duties. 



If any difficult problem arose in the affairs of the Academy he was not 

 lacking in efficient counsel nor was it hastily or injudiciously given. 

 Thus we shall miss his thoughtfulness and wisdom. 



Professor Prosser was born in ISOO at Columbus, New York. He was 

 graduated from Cornell Uni\'ersity in 1S83, was a fellow one year and 

 instructor to 18SS; received his master's degree in 1886 and returned 

 twenty years later and took his doctor's degree in 1907. One year 

 before Union College gave him an honorary Doctorate of Science. 



He was professor of Natural History at Washburn, Kansas, '92-'94, of 

 Geology at Union, '94-'99, Associate Professor of Historical Geology, 

 '99- '01 at Ohio State University and Professor and Head of the Depart- 

 ment from then to the date of his death. For four years after leaving 

 Cornell University he was Assistant Paleontologist on the U. S. 

 Geologic Survey, Assistant Geologist '92-'9o and '00-' 16. He was a 

 member of the N. Y. Geological Survey, '95-'99; Kansas Geological 

 Survey, '96, Chief Appalachain Division, Maryland Geological Survey, 

 '98-'01; Assistant Geologist, Ohio Geological Survey, '00-'16. 



He was a member of the leading Geological and Scientific Societies 

 of America and of some foreign organizations, among which are the 

 f ollomng : 



International Congress of Geologists, London, 1888; 



International Geographic Congress, New York, 1904; 



Fellow American Association Advancement Science (Vice- 

 President, Section E, at the time of his death); 



Society of Naturalists; 



Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists; 



Geological Society of America; 



Paleontological Society of America; 



'National Geographic Society; 



Geologische Verein; 



Washington, D. C, Kansas and Ohio Academies of Science. 



