.".•JK PROCEEDINGS "1 NEW YORK MEETING. 



Professor Cook was at the time of his death engaged on bis final report 

 Two volumes had been prepared and are now in print. 



In 1864 the State Scientific College was attached to Rutgers College, and 

 - : l k, while retaining his professorship, became vice-president ofthe 

 state collegi . He organized the State Board of Agriculture, and was for a long 

 time its secretary. He became in 1886 chief director ofthe New Jersey State 

 Weather Service. He was long president of the New Brunswick Hoard of 

 Water < Joramissioners. He was also a member of the State Board of Health, 

 and laid many minor offices in the state. He was active also in work eh 

 where. In 1852 he was sent to Europe by the state of New York to make 

 investigations that might aid in developing the Onondaga salt springs. He 

 went again to Europe in 1870 to study certain geological questions. He 

 was a member ofthe National Academy of Sciences, and the author of many 

 papers and addresses. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the Uni- 

 versity of New York, and the degree of LL. D. from Union College. 



" A friend whose devotion never waned, a loyal citizen ready for every 

 duty, a true scientist and a manly christian, he has left an example for us 

 if we would make the world better and wiser." 



Rev. David Honeyman, D. C. L.,* was born at the village of Rathillet, 

 in the northern part ofthe county of Fife, Scotland, iu the year 1*14. He 

 was educated at the University of St. Andrews, on the east coast of the 

 same county. At college he devoted special attention to Hebrew, and was 

 early recognized as a Hebrew Bcholar; but, even in youth, his attention was 

 attracted to geology, as was that of many other young men in the locality. 

 at a time when Sir Charles Eyell was laying the foundations of his life 

 work (one of his earliest publications being a geological section of the ad- 

 joining county of Forfar) and Hugh Miller was developing the paleonto- 

 logies! riches of the Did Red Sandstone rocks of the northern shoi 



Honeyman's firs I geological work was in connection with the Museum of 

 the Watt Institution of Dunde le of the early Scotch " mechanics' insti- 

 tute i" which he, in conjunction with other.-, brought together and ar- 

 ranged collections of mineral and rock specimens and fossils. In 1851 he 

 hft Scotland for Nova Scotia, ami took the chair of Hebrew in the Halifax 

 Free Church College. After a brief term al Halifax he accepted the pas- 

 torate of the Presbyterian congregation of' Shubenacadie, in the Bame prov- 

 ince, and. the leafier, that of A nt i -_r < • 1 1 i .— 1 1 , from which he was released in 1 859. 



After this retiremeul he continued to conduct services occasionally, Inn did 

 nol accepl a -tiled charge, devoting his time chiefly to geological and cither 



