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interest, and in collections illustrating economic geology, neces- 

 sitated by tlie character of the instruction. 



Of the events during this last third of Dr. Newberry's life 

 rich in labor and fame, only brief notice can be given. 



In 18G7 he was President of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, at the Burlington meeting, and gave 

 the presidential address. In the same year he received from 

 his Alma Mater the degree of LL. D. 



In February 1868, Dr. Newberry became the President of the 

 Lyceum of Natural History in the City of Ncav York (after 1876 

 the New York Academy of Sciences) and remained the presi- 

 dent of the society until the year of his death. His name was 

 enrolled in most of the learned societies in America, and in 

 many foreign societies. 



When the Ohio State Geological Survey was established in 

 1869, Dr. Newberry, who had kept his home in Cleveland, was 

 called by Governor Hayes to the directorship and for several 

 years the work absorbed most of the energy and time that 

 could be spared from his college duties. The results will be 

 spoken of later in this paper. An error was made in postponing 

 the publication of the economic work and the appropriations 

 were suspended in 1874. There was no formal termination of 

 Dr. Newberry's survey, but from about 1878 he felt that his 

 work there was over, and that there had been injustice and 

 ingratitude, which wounded his sensitive spirit and perhaps 

 somewhat embittered the later years of his life. 



At the Centennial Exposition, 1876, Dr. Newberry was one 

 of the judges, and prepared the report upon building and orna- 

 mental stones. From 1880 to 1890 he was President of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club. In 1884 he was appointed one of the 

 paleontologists of the U. S. Geological Survey, with particular 

 reference to his favorite lines of study, fossil plants and fossil 

 fishes. 



One of his highest and most aj^preciated honors fell to him in 

 1888 in the award of the Murchison Medal, conferred by the 

 Geological Society of London for distinguished services to geo- 

 logic science. In 1889 he was First Vice-President of the 

 Geological Society of America, which he had helped to institute 

 in 1888. He was one of the committee of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science which was instrumental 

 in organizing the International Congress of Geologists, and 

 perhaps his crowning and well deserved honor as a geologist 

 came in his election as President of the Congress for the Wash- 

 ington meeting, in August, 1891. But the tribute came too late 



