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A paper was read by Dr. J. S. Newberry, illustrated by lantern 

 views and botanical specimens, on 



THE BOTANY, GEOLOGY, AND RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY TRAV- 

 ERSED BY THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, 



February ii, 1884. 



The President, Dr. J. S. Newberry, in the Chair. 



Forty persons were present. 



The following memorial notice of the late Vice-President of the 

 Academy, Dr. Benjamin N. Martin, was read by the Secre- 

 tary : 



The Committee appointed to prepare a minute, with Resolutions, 

 respecting the death of Prof. B. N. Martin, submit the following Re- 

 port : 



Benjamin Nicholas Martin, S.T.D., L.H.D., 



born at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, on October 20, 1816, was graduated 

 from Yale College in the Class of 1837. He made profession of the 

 Christian faith while at College, and entered the theological seminary 

 at New Haven immediately after graduation. After supplying the 

 pulpit of the Carmine Street— now West or Forty-second Street Pres- 

 byterian — congregation for nearly two years, he became pastor of the 

 First or Russel Congregational Church of Hadley, Massachusetts, 

 where he remained untd 1847. His labors were attended with signal 

 success, and his memory is still cherished by the older families of each 

 congregation. While in New York, he had married Miss Louisa 

 C. Strobel. The climate of Hadley proved unsuited to her health, 

 so that in 1847 he resigned his charge. He became pastor in 1848 of 

 the Fourth Presbyterian congregation of Albany, New York, but re- 

 tained the charge for little more than a year. This was his last regular 

 pastorate. 



He remained in Albany during the following three years, devoting 

 himself to general study. During his years of labor as preacher and 

 pastor, he studied earnestly in theology and metaphysics ; but, during 

 these years at Albany, his associations gave opportunity to gratify 

 his native bent toward the natural sciences, which he did not fail to 

 improve to the utmost. In 1852, he was called by the University of 

 the City of New York to fill the Chair of Logic and Philosophy, which 

 then covered nearly all branches of mental and political science, with 

 not a little of literature. From that tune, until the day of his deaths 



