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While teaching was the chief business of Dr. Prosser during prac- 
tically his whole public life, his vacations and all spare time during the 
school year were devoted to research. He loved it and was willing to 
sacrifice much to attain his goals in his scientific career. 
His contributions were always marked by most painstaking and 
precise accuracy in the fields they covered and thus left little for anyone 
else to do when he had finished. 
Among his publications are extensive papers and reports on the 
geology and paleontology of New York, Maryland, Kansas, and Ohio. 
They are largely stratigraphic and paleontologic, and are particularly 
strong in the correlations which they set forth. 
The State Geologist of New York, with whom Professor Prosser 
had long been associated, gives a beautiful estimate of him in the 
following words: 
“There never was a more loyal, a more devoted, a more sensitive 
spirit. His attitude of mind was puritanic in its simplicity and in its 
practices, and, left to himself he could never suspect another of indirect- 
ness or duplicity—a quality of which he contained not a grain. Whencon- 
fronted by the broader bearings of his science and the natural sequences 
of its greater propositions, he held himself somewhat carefully aloof. 
Yet this simplicity of heart which would not let him go far afield, 
also made him extraordinarily conscientious in his scientific work. 
It would not be fair to him to say that he had a genius for details, but 
it would be eminently right to assert that he sought intimately and 
faithfully for the exact construction of every observation he made so 
far as that had to do with the theme in hand. This mental method led 
him to a precision of manner and gave him a certain formality which 
was seldom dismissed under the most informal circumstances. ’’— 
J. M. Clarke, Science, October 20, 1916, p. 559. 
Many men and women have gone out from under his training, in 
Kansas, New York, and Ohio, who can trace their geological ideals and 
beginnings to him. Some have attained to eminence in geologic and © 
paleontologic research or in teaching and uphold the high standards to 
which he was devoted. 
(Signed) Gro. D. Hussparp, Chairman, 
HERBERT OSBORN. 
Report of the Committee on Resolutions 
The following report was presented by the Committee on 
Resolutions, and adopted by the Academy. 
1. The Academy wishes again to express its gratitude for the 
continued generosity of Mr. Emerson McMillin, and to put on record 
its appreciation of the value of his gifts to the Research Fund in the 
stimulation and extension of research on the part of the membership of 
the Academy. 
2. The Academy desires to express sympathy for Professor F. O. 
Grover, whose illness, brought on by overwork, has prevented him from 
