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The committee further reports that the cost of this tablet 

 will constitute no claim on the treasury of the association but 

 will be borne individually by one of its members, Dr T. Guilford 

 Smith. 



f John M. Clarke, Chmrman 



a- ^^ K^ ! C. H. HiTCHCOOK 



^^^^^^^^ J. McK. Cattell 

 ' W. J. McGee 



A. Statement dictated to John M. Clarke by Prof. James 



Hall, Aug. 24, 1896. 



The organization of a body of American geologists was pro- 

 posed by the four geologists at Dr Emmons's house at the 

 corner of Hudson av. and High st. It was during the fall of 

 1838. Yanuxem was asked to see or communicate with the 

 Eogerses concerning it, but nothing came of it that year. The 

 next year we reiterated our purpose, as the intention was to 

 ^et some means of comparing our results with those of other 

 •geologists in other states, especially in Pennsylvania. This 

 meeting was held at Dr Emmons's house, the four geologists 

 being present and perhaps also Conrad. Ebenezer Emmons jr 

 was also there. We then decided to communicate again 

 with the Rogerses and others for the end already suggested 

 iind to organize a society of geologists for this especial purpose. 

 We wanted to compare our results with those of others and 

 make up our nomenclature, and we had to do it soon as we were 

 required to publish. As a result of this unanimously expressed 

 purpose, a meeting was called for April 1840 in Philadelphia. 

 1 was present then but not at the second Philadelphia meet- 

 ing in 1841, as that year I was off in May and June with D. D. 

 Owen on a flatboat sailing down the Ohio, sleeping on a box 

 and collecting fossils all along from Louisville to New Har- 

 mony. As far as Rogers was concerned the meeting came to 

 naught. He was not ready with his results and gave them 

 only at the third meeting at Boston in 1842. It was here that 

 the naturalists proposed to join us, and we agreed thereto, 

 but the Boston meeting was called as the meeting of the Asso- 

 •ciation of American geologists, and in the course of that meet- 

 ing the name was changed to that of Association of American 

 geologists and naturalists. 



B. Statement dictated to John M. Clarke by Ebenezer 

 Emmons jr, February 1900. 



I was present at the meeting of the four geologists at my 

 father's house, in 1838. I was then about 16 years old, and 

 had assisted my father in his field work and making drawings 



