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received the highest commendation. His report made to the 

 Government consists of 543 octavo pages. At the close of the 

 War, he became scientific associate of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion for one year. In 1866 he entered on his chief life-work as 

 Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the School of Mines 

 of Columbia University, which position he held for twenty-six 

 years. The fine museum containing many fossils, rocks and 

 minerals collected by him, and the rejuvenating of the old 

 Lyceum, now the flourishing New York Academy of Sciences, 

 are notable results of the efficient labor of that period. 



Dr. Newberry retained his residence in Cleveland, and from 

 1869 to 1874 was Director of the Geological Survey of Ohio, 

 but after the failure of the Legislature to provide funds, he 

 returned to New Haven, where he died, December 7, 1892. 

 He had served as President of the Torrey Botanical Club in 

 1880. His part in the U. S. Geological Survey was the investiga- 

 tion of the fossil fishes and some of the fossil plants of the United 

 States. He was one of the organizers of the International Con- 

 gress of Geologists, of which he was elected President for the 

 Washington meeting of 1891. In 1 888 he received the Murchison 

 Medal of the Geological Society of London, and the same 

 year was elected first Vice-President of the Geological Society 

 of America. 



Dr. Newberry's published writings numbered over two hun- 

 dred, besides editorial work in geology and paleontology for 

 Johnson's Cyclopedia. 



(From CHARLES A. WHITE, in Biographical Memoirs of the National 

 Academy of Sciences, vol. 6, 1909, pp. 1-24.) 



HUBERT ANSON NEWTON 

 Born, March 19, 1830; died, August 12, 1896 



Professor Newton was born on March 19, 1830, at Sherburne, 

 New York. His parents were descended from early settlers of 

 Massachusetts and Connecticut, who had moved westward into 

 what was then the wilds of central New York. Newton showed 

 at an early age a taste for exact studies which he seems to have 



