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the death of the late James E. Teschemacher, together with 

 a notice of his life and writings, as follows : 



Our Society has experienced a great loss in the death of Mr. 

 Teschemacher, one of its most valuable members, and we must 

 turn aside a moment from the path of science to pay a tribute to 

 his memory. This gentleman, who joined our Society in the 

 year 1835, and has since that time been an able associate in 

 our labors, and a large contributor to the advancement of science 

 in our country, has suddenly terminated his mortal career, at the 

 age of sixty, from a disease of the heart. 



Our Society, moved by the great merits of Mr. Teschemacher, 

 and the loss we have experienced from his death, do therefore 



Resolve^ 1st. That a record be made in our transactions of the 

 high estimation in which we hold the private qualities and sci- 

 entific labors of Mr. Teschemacher, as manifested in his excel- 

 lent papers on Botany, Mineralogy, some departments of Geology, 

 and particularly in his able and practical investigations of the 

 carboniferous formations. We also regard his productions on 

 the composition and improvement of soils, as a valuable and per- 

 manent contribution to the agriculture of the country. 



2d. That the President of the Society be requested to prepare 

 some notice of the life and labors of our learned associate. 



Sd. That a copy of these resolutions, with the preamble, and 

 the appended notice of his productions, be presented to his family, 

 to the scientific journals of the country, and the daily paper which 

 publishes the proceedings of this Society. 



NOTICE OF J. E. TESCHEMACHER. 



James Engelbert Teschemacher (of Hanoverian extraction on 

 the paternal side) was born in Nottingham, England, on the 

 eleventh day of June, in the year 1790. At the age of fourteen 

 he commenced his commercial career in a mercantile foreign 

 house of eminence, in London, where he evinced application and 

 business talents of a high order ; and amid the extensive trans- 

 actions of mercantile life, in which during a long series of years 

 he was engaged, his fine comprehensive mind ever remained 



