12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE WASHINGTON MEETING 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary announced the election in due form of the following 

 Fellows, the ballots having been canvassed and counted by the Council: 



Thomas Olachar Brown, A. B., A. M., Ph. D., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr. 

 Pennsylvania. 



Charles Wilford Cook, A. B., M. S., Ph. D., University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, Michigan. 



William Ebe'nezer Ford, Ph. B., Ph. D., Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, 

 Connecticut. 



Charles Townsend Kirk, B. S., A. M., Ph. D., University of New Mexico, Albu- 

 querque, New Mexico. 



Donald Francis MacDonald, B. S., M. S., LL. D.. United States Geological 

 Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Edgar Theodore Wherry, B. S., Ph. D., United States National Museum. Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Announcement was then made by the Secretary that the Society had 

 lost four Fellows by death during the year 1915 : Theodore B. Comstock, 

 Orville A. Derby, Joseph A. Holmes, and William J. Sutton. Since the 

 1914 meeting the Secretary had also received notice of the death of 

 Arthur B. Willmott on May 8, 1914. Memorials of deceased Fellows were 

 presented as follows: 



MEMORIAL OF THEODORE BRYANT COMSTOCK 

 BY HEINRICH RIES 



Theodore B. Comstock was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on July 27, 

 1849. After graduating from school he attended the Pennsylvania State 

 College, where he received the Bachelor of Agriculture degree in 1868. 

 In 1870 he obtained the Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell Univer- 

 sity, and in 1886 the Doctor of Science degree from the same institution. 



His first teaching position was that of Instructor in Botany in Cornell 

 University, which he held from 1868-1870, and then left to accept a pro- 

 fessorship of Natural Science at Pelham Priory from 1871-1872. Fol- 

 lowing this he held the following positions : Instructor in Natural Science 

 in Cincinnati, 1873 ; Director of the Kirkland Summer School of Natural 

 History in 1875, and then acting Professor of Geology in Cornell Univer- 

 sity until 1879. 



Many of bis former students at Cornell speak highly of the interest 

 which he took in them and their work, and it may be of interest to note 

 in this connection that he gave the first instruction in Economic Geology 

 that was given at this institution. His lecture syllabus which he pub- 



