458 PROCEEDINGS OF COLUMBUS MEETING. 



In June, 1891, the position of assistant professor of geology and min- 

 eralogy became vacant at Cornell university, and Dr. Williams was called 

 to the chair. He accepted, and alter making the western excursion of 

 the International Geological Congress, he attempted to take up his duties, 

 hut weakness and disease were already laying a heavy grasp upon him. 

 A severe attack of the so-called "grip "in March last had sapped his 

 strength, and ill-advised methods of work had aggravated its results- 

 Dr. Williams worked well but not wisely, and, led away by interest in 

 his subject, protracted his labors until 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. 

 These habits are specially injurious in Arkansas, and gave his friends 

 great anxiety. At last he became but the shadow of himself — the strain 

 upon him was too severe and his constitution finally yielded. Paralysis 

 attacked him, and after an illness of about two weeks he passed away 

 on November 9, being just 29 years of age. 



It has never been the lot of the writer to know intimately a more 

 generous, frank and lovable man than J. Francis Williams, and it is 

 impossible to speak of him without the deepest emotion. His character 

 was such as to indescribably endear him to his friends, and his abilities 

 and preparation for his work were of the highest order. His results 

 were such as to secure for him in all the future one of the most honor- 

 able places in the records of American geological science. 



A list of Dr. Williams' published papers is appended: 



Tests of Rutland and Washington County Slates : Van Nostrand's Engineering Mag- 

 azine, no. clxxxviii, 1884, pp. 101-103. 



Ueber den Monte Amiata in Toscana und seine < resteine : Neues Jahrbuch, Beilage 

 Band v, L887, Seiten :;si-4">0 u. Tafeln xiii-xvi. 



Manganopektolith, ein neues Pektolith-ahriliches Mineral von Magnet Cove, Ar- 

 kansas: Zeitschriftfur Krystallographie, B. xviii, 1890, S. 386. 



Eudialyte and Eucolite from Magnet Cove, Arkansas: .1///. Joum. Sci., 3d series, 



vol. xl, 1890, pp. 457-462. 

 Tests of some Arkansas Syenites: Railroad and Engineering Journal, vol. Ixv, 1891, 



p. 13. 

 Newtonite and Rectorite, two new Minerals of the Kaplinite Group (by R. X. 



Brackett and .!. Francis Williams): Am. Joum. Sci., 3d series, vol. xlii, 1891, pp. 



11-21. 



Annual Repoi't Geological Survey of Arkansas, 1890, vol. Li: The Igneous Rocks of 

 Arkansas, pp. 457, and maps. 



J. F. K. 



Mr. J. S. Diller, for the ( !ommittee on Photographs, made an oral report, 

 stating that nearly three hundred new photographs were received since 

 the last report and were on exhibition. 



