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II. The payment of certain bills, viz.: — 



Ct. Gregory, printing notices of meetings, etc., $'2G.50 

 Stationery (blank-books and envelopes), . 7.89 



Corresponding Secretary, postage, etc., . . 6.09 

 Publication Committee, '' . . . 10.42 



All the recommendations were approved, and voted as above 

 specified. 



The Committee appointed to prepare a memorial notice of the 

 late Prof. Cook, of New Jersey, presented the following reso- 

 lutions, which were unanimously adopted by the meeting, and 

 ordered to be engrossed and transmitted : — 



Whereas; Prof. George H. Cook — a Corresponding Member 

 of this Academy, for many years State Geologist of New 

 Jersey, Director of the New Jersey State Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Vice-President and Professor of Geology 

 in Rutgers College, and the trusted counsellor in all mat- 

 ters in which science has served the State, — died at his home 

 in the city of New Brunswick, Sept. 22d, 1889; — 



And loliereas; Professor Cook was one of the most beloved and 

 most learned scientific men of his Commonwealth, an able 

 and accomplished geologist, a skilful engineer, chemist, 

 and agriculturist, and possessed of an unusually general 

 and varied acquaintance with all branches of science; — 



And wliereas ; Prof. Cook pre-eminently combined in his life the 

 leader and worker in science, the genial and cordial gentle- 

 man, the patriotic citizen, and the Christian believer and 

 philanthropist, whose hopes and labors reached forth beyond 

 the narrow limits of all mere earthly environment; — there- 

 fore 



Resolved ; That in the death of such a man, this Academy re- 

 cognizes a loss to humanity and appreciates the sad gap 

 made in the ranks of American science; — 



Resolved; That a copy of these Resolutions be entered upon 



