Bickmore.] 216 [December 2,' 



a ^Manual of Geology, wliicli was published in 1859, and passed to a 

 second edition in 1860. 



On the breaking out of the "great conflict," he was still busily 

 engaged in the prosecution of the survey of North Carolina. It has 

 been conjectured that he was detained in the South on account of his 

 extensive and intimate acquaintance with the country, fears being 

 entertained, should he be allowed to return to the North, that his 

 knowledge would be turned to account by the Federal Government. 

 He died at Brunswick, North Carolina, October 1st, 1863. 



The following tribute, which appeared November 6tb of the same 

 year, is from the "Albany Evening Journal":— "Dr. Emmons exhibited 

 a life-long devotion to science. Patient, persevering, cautious in his 

 facts, rigid in his deductions, he has always carried into all the de- 

 partments of science which he has investigated, a strong common 

 sense, which has essentially influenced his conclusions. Among the 

 scientific men of this country he held a high rank. Although dis- 

 agreeing with many of them on some important points in Geology, 

 esj^ecially the Taconic System, of which he was the originator and 

 supporter, yet more recent investigations have tended to show his 

 sagacity and correctness. His name will long live in the scientific 

 annals of this countiy." 



Thus has passed away another devotee of science, a Savant re- 

 markable for his lively sympathy with nature, and for his clear appre- 

 ciation of the orderly course of her working; remarkable alike for 

 his keen insight and for his untiring industry; and, as I am informed, 

 equally remarkable as well for his native gentleness and rare amiabil- 

 ity of character, as for his Christian forbearance and unfailing courtesy, 

 under all the varying relations he was called to sustain in life. 



Mr. S. H. Scudcler followed with a few remarks upon the 

 forced seclusion of Dr. Emmons during the closing years of 

 his life ; shut out by the exigencies of the war from com- 

 munication with his friends, he heard but the first intimation 

 of a favorable change in the reception of the theories he had 

 long and persistently maintained in the face of the strongest 

 opposition. 



Prof A. S. Bickmore exhibited to the Society fifteen shells 

 of the JVcmtihcs j^omjnlius, of various sizes, from one which 

 measured five sixths of an inch by one inch and one sixth in 



