240 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The resolutions were seconded by the Rev. President 

 Walker, who paid an additional tribute to the memory of 

 Judge White. He referred to the collection of distinguished 

 men living in Salem forty years ago, such as was hardly to 

 be met with in any other part of the country, — Bowditch, 

 Story, Pickering, <tc., — and of Judge White as one of this 

 select number. Alluding to the present cloud over our pub- 

 lic affairs, he spoke of Chief Justice Shaw and Judge White 

 as the product and the representatives of the best days of 

 our country, adding that he could not divest himself of the 

 feeling, that our way is darker and more insecure now that 

 they have fallen asleep. 



Also, by the Hon. John C. Gray and Judge Washburn, who 

 illustrated in detail leading traits and particulars in the char- 

 acter and career of the late Chief Justice. 



The resolutions were unanimously adopted. 



By invitation, after some introductory remarks by Mr. 

 Felton, the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, of the Constantinople 

 Mission of the American Board, addressed the Academy upon 

 the subject of Education in European Turkey, and upon the 

 plan and prospects of a collegiate institution about to be es- 

 tablished in the vicinity of Constantinople. 



Four bundred and iiiuety-fiftli meeting. 



May 14, 1861. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read various letters rela- 

 tive to the exchanges of the Academy with other institu- 

 tions ; and he exhibited the large and invaluable collection 

 of Geological Sections, Maps, Charts, &c. of the Geological 

 Survey of Great Britain, presented to the Academy by the 

 Director of the Survey under the sanction of the British 

 Government. 



Professor James Hall, of Albany, made a communication 

 upon some points in North American Geology, in which he 



