1888. | NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 7 
Whereas, the Academy has learned, with much regret, of the 
resignation of Pror. HERMAN LeRoy FatrcuiLp from the 
office of Recording Secretary, in which position he has so ably 
served the society for several years past, therefore be it 
Resolved, that the Academy desires hereby to place on record 
its deep sense of the uniform courtesy, skill and fidelity with 
which Prof. Fairchild has discharged the important and often 
exacting duties connected with his office, and also to express 
the great obligation which the Academy feels to him, not only 
for much of the interest and success of its meetings during 
recent years, but for important elements of permanent growth 
and strength. 
fesolved, that the members and officers of the Academy con- 
gratulate Prof. Fairchild on the interesting position that opens 
before him in the University of Rochester; and that while they 
feel his removal as a personal loss, their heartiest good-wishes 
will follow him in his new work for science and education. 
The resolutions were unanimously approved. 
Mr. GeorGE F. Kunz exhibited a specimen of sheet gold on 
turquoise, from Los Cerrillos, New Mexico, and also the large 
crystal of aquamarine from North Carolina, mentioned at the 
meeting of October Ist. 
Mr. Kunz announced the death, since the last meeting, of 
Mr. BENJAMIN B. CHAMBERLIN, long one of the most valued 
members of the Academy. 
Pror. MARTIN spoke in regard to the loss which the society 
had sustained in the death of so active and faithful a member. 
His varied attainments in science, his zeal and success as a local 
mineralogist, his constant interest in the Academy and presence 
at its meetings—whither his new acquisitions were always 
brought, for the pleasure and profit of the members—these all 
made his loss peculiarly felt. It is matter for much congratu- 
lation, however, that two important departments of his work 
had been recently completed under his own supervision. His 
““ Catalogue of the Minerals of New York Island” had been 
revised and published in the Academy’s TRANSACTIONS, last 
spring; and during the past summer his entire local collection 
