148 RECORDS 



SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. 



November i8, 1901. 



Section met at 8:15 P. M., Dr. A. A. Julien presiding. 



The following program was offered : 



J. F. Kemp, Theodore G. White (Obituary). 



J. J. Stevenson, Joseph Le Conte (Obituary). 



E. 0. Hovey, Notes on the Triassic and Jurassic Strata 

 of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. 



A. A. Julien, Erosion by Flying Sand on the Beaches of 

 Cape Cod. 



On motion it was unanimously voted by the Section that the 

 obituary notices of Messrs. White and LeConte be referred to 

 the Council for printing in the Records of the Academy. 



Summary of Papers. 



Theodore Greeley White, Secretary of the Section of Geology 

 and Mineralogy, in this Academy, passed away after a brief ill- 

 ness on the seventh of July, 1901. The announcement that one 

 who was just entering upon the full exercise of his powers had 

 fallen came to his friends with all the shock of a sudden bereave- 

 ment. It is difficult to realize, even at this day, that one who 

 had long been a faithful worker in this Academy is no more. 



Mr. White was born in New York, August 6, 1872, and 

 therefore lacked just a month of completing his twenty-ninth 

 year. He was the only child of his parents, both of whom he 

 had but recently lost. He fitted for college at the Columbia 

 Grammar School, entered the School of Mines in the course in 

 geology and palaeontology in October, 1 890, and received his 

 degree of Ph.B. in June, 1894. He immediately registered for 

 graduate work at Columbia, as a candidate for M.A., and re- 

 ceived the degree in 1895. He continued his studies for Ph. D.^ 

 and obtained it in 1898. He was appointed assistant in the 

 Department of Physics in 1896, and held the position until 

 1900, being especially in charge of the experimental work in 



