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Mr, Cuas. F, Cox in the chair, and about 110 persons 
present. 
Professor Hermann L. Fatrcuiip, of Rochester University, 
delivered the following address : 
A MEMOIR OF 
PROFESSOR JOHN STRONG NEWBERRY, 
BY HERMANN LE ROY FAIRCHILD. 
As the bright declining sun is suddenly eclipsed by clouds 
and so sinks slowly into night, so passed from earth our 
glorious friend. Butin the memory and hearts of those who 
knew him he still lives, as a noble personality, impressive in 
appearance, charming in companionship, wise in counsel, him- 
self greater than any work that he has done. To review his life 
will be both a profit and a delight. He was great enough to 
demand our reverence, good enough to claim our affection and 
human enough to win our sympathy. It is the highest tribute 
that those who knew him best loved him the best. 
Dr. Newberry was, taking him all in all, a truly great man. 
To a remarkably fine intellectual and moral endowment there 
had been added an unusually wide experience and a large 
degree of scholarly attainment. His abilities were such that he 
could have taken a high place in almost any profession. In his 
chosen field of natural science he was a master, and everwhere, 
whether in society, the university or scientific circles, he was a 
conspicuous figure, admired and honored. 
By gifts of birth Dr. Newberry was a naturalist, and his 
inborn inclination toward geologic science triumphed despite 
the fact of his early selection of another profession. He was 
born before the days of. scientific schools, and lacked the advan- 
tages of special instruction and scientific association. In his 
scientific work he was largely a self-trained observer and an 
independent worker, one of the few great ‘‘naturalists’’ by 
impulse, His range was not limited nor his independence 
checked by undue regard for authority of predecessors or 
teachers. His relation to schools of science was creative, not 
receptive. 
HIS LIFE— CHRONOLOGY. 
Dr. Newberry's life was not particularly eventful or romantie, 
Its history is “the story of an active leader in his chosen field, 
