502 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [NoV., 



November 3. 

 Arthur Erwin Brown, Sc.D., Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 Twenty-five persons present. 

 The Committee on tlie Hayden Memorial Award reported as follows : 



The Committee on the Hayden Memorial Geological Award 

 reports in favor of conferring the medal this year on John Mason 

 Clarke, State Geologist of New York, in recognition of the value of 

 his work in geology and especially of his memoir, Early Devonic His- 

 tory of New York and Eastern North America. In the opinion of the 

 Committee he ranks with the others who have received the recog- 

 nition. 



(Signed) Henry Fairfield Osborn, 



R. A. F. Penrose, Jr., 

 Amos P. Brown, 

 Frederick Prime, 

 Samuel G. Dixon, 



Committee. 



John Mason Clarke was born at Canandaigua, N. Y., April 15, 

 1857. His early education was received in the Canandaigua Academy, 

 of which his father was principal. In 1877 he graduated from Amherst 

 College and studied in the University of Gottingen from 1882 to 1884. 

 For a period he taught at the Canandaigua Academy and the Utica 

 Academy and in 1879 was instructor in geology at Amherst. From 

 1880 to 1882 he was professor of geology and zoology at Smith College, 

 and in 1885 lecturer on geology at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. In 1886 he was appointed assistant in paleontology under 

 Prof. James Hall, State geologist of New York; in 1892 assistant State 

 geologist and paleontologist; in 1898 State paleontologist; in 1904 

 State geologist and paleontologist, director of the State Museum and 

 the Science division of the Education department; in 1894 he was made 

 professor of geology and mineralogy in the Rensselaer Polytechnic 

 Institute. In 1908 the Iroquois Nation received him into their mem- 

 bership as keeper of their historic archives with the ancient title of this 

 office. His scientific publications, chiefly on geology and paleontology, 

 and extending over a period of thirty years, are somewhat voluminous, 

 and, though largely relating to the State of New York, include also 

 parts of Canada, Maine, South America and Germany. His most com- 



