Trans. INV. Y. Ac. Sct. 56 Feb. 11, 
A paper was read by Dr. J. S. NEwBERRY, illustrated by lantern 
views and botanical specimens, on 
THE BOTANY, GEOLOGY, AND RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY TRAV- 
ERSED BY THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, 
February 11, 1884. 
The President, Dr. J. S. NEwBERRY, in the Chair. 
Forty persons were present. 
The following memorial notice of the late Vice-President of the 
Academy, Dr. BenjaMIN N. MarTIN, was read by the Secre- 
tary : 
The Committee appointed to prepare a minute, with Resolutions, 
respecting the death of Prof. B. N. Martin, submit the following Re- 
port: 
BENJAMIN NICHOLAS MARTIN, S.T.D., L.H.D., 
born at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, on October 20, 1816, was graduated 
from Yale College in the Class of 1837. He made profession of the 
Christian faith while at College, and entered the theological seminary 
at New Haven immediately after graduation. After supplying the 
pulpit of the Carmine Street—now West or Forty-second Street Pres- 
byterian—congregation for nearly two years, he became pastor of the 
First or Russel Congregational Church of Hadley, Massachusetts, 
where he remained until 1847. His labors were attended with signal 
success, and his memory is still cherished by the older families of each 
congregation. While in New York, he had married Miss Louisa 
C. STROBEL. The climate of Hadley proved unsuited to her health, 
so that in 1847 he resigned his charge. He became pastor in 1848 of 
the Fourth Presbyterian congregation of Albany, New York, but re- 
tained the charge for little more than a year. This was his last regular 
pastorate. 
He remained in Albany during the following three years, devoting 
himself to general study. During his years of labor as preacher and 
pastor, he studied earnestly in theology and metaphysics ; but, during 
these years at Albany, his associations gave opportunity to gratify 
his native bent toward the natural sciences, which he did not fail to 
improve to the utmost. In 1852, he was called by the University of 
the City of New York to fill the Chair of Logic and Philosophy, which 
then covered nearly all branches of mental and political science, with 
not a little of literature. From that time, until the day of his death, 
