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While teaching was the chief business of Dr. Prosser during prac- 

 tically his whole public life, his vacations and all spare time during the 

 school year were devoted to research. He loved it and was willing to 

 sacrifice much to attain his goals in his scientific career. 



His contributions were always marked by most painstaking and 

 precise accuracy in the fields they covered and thus left little for anyone 

 else to do when he had finished. 



Among his publications are extensive papers and reports on the 

 geology and paleontology of New York, Maryland, Kansas, and Ohio. 

 They are largely stratigraphic and paleontologic, and are particularly 

 strong in the correlations which they set forth. 



The State Geologist of New York, with whom Professor Prosser 

 had long been associated, gives a beautiful estimate of him in the 

 following words: 



"There never was a more loyal, a more devoted, a more sensitive 

 spirit. His attitude of mind was puritanic in its simplicity and in its 

 practices, and, left to himself he could never suspect another of indirect- 

 ness or duplicity — a quality of which he contained not a grain. When con- 

 fronted by the broader bearings of his science and the natural sequences 

 of its greater propositions, he held himself somewhat carefully aloof. 

 Yet this simplicity of heart which would not let him go far afield, 

 also made him extraordinarily conscientious in his scientific work. 

 It would not be fair to him to say that he had a genius for details, but 

 it would be eminently right to assert that he sought intimately and 

 faithfully for the exact construction of every observation he made so 

 far as that had to do with the theme in hand. This mental method led 

 him to a precision of manner and gave him a certain formality which 

 was seldom dismissed under the most informal circumstances." — 

 J. M. Clarke, Science, October 20, 1916, p. 559. 



Many men and women have gone out from under his training, in 

 Kansas, New York, and Ohio, who can trace their geological ideals and 

 beginnings to him. Some have attained to eminence in geologic and 

 paleontologic research or in teaching and uphold the high standards to 

 which he was devoted. 



(Signed) Geo. D. Hubbard, Chairman, 

 Herbert Osborn. 



Report of the Committee on Resolutions 



The following report was presented by the Committee on 

 Resolutions, and adopted by the Academy. 



J. The Academy wishes again to express its gratitude for the 

 continued generosity of Mr. Emerson McMillin, and to put on record 

 its appreciation of the value of his gifts to the Research Fund in the 

 stimulation and extension of research on the part of the membership of 

 the Academy. 



2. The Academy desires to express sympathy for Professor F. 0. 

 Grover, whose illness, brought on by overwork, has prevented him from 



