610 PROCEEDINGS OF WASHINGTON MEETING. 



The result of balloting for Fellows was announced by the Secretary as 

 follows : 



T. Nelson Dale, Newport, R. I. Assistant Geologist on the U. S. Geological 

 Survey ; now engaged on structural geology. 



Orville a. Derby, M. S., present address Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Director of the 

 Geographical and Geological Survey of the province of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Uly. S. Grant, B. S., Minneapolis, Minn. Now post-graduate student at Johns 

 Hopkins University, engaged in study of crystalline rocks. 



Edmund Jussen, Ph. D., Washington, D. C. Assistant Geologist on the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey and engaged on surface and crystalline geology. 



Will H. Sherzer, M. S., Saginaw, Mich. Teacher, and engaged in paleontologi- 

 cal work. 



The death of Richard Owen was announced by the Secretary, and author- 

 ity was given to publish the following — 



OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Dr. Richard Owen, youngest brother of David Dale Owen and Robert 

 Dale Owen, died at New Harmony, Indiana, on March 24, 1890, at the 

 advanced age of somewhat more than eighty years. He was a native of 

 Lanarkshire, Scotland. His education and training, prior to his settlement 

 at New Harmony, Indiana, was partly at Lanark and at Hofwyl, Switzer- 

 land, and later at Glasgow, where he had a course of study with Dr. Andrew 

 Ure. He was known as author, teacher, geologist, and soldier. His first 

 geological work was done in association with his brother, David Dale 

 Owen, on the United States survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, 

 where he was employed mainly on the northern shore of Lake Superior. He 

 published in 1857 a work entitled " Key to the Geology of the Globe," and 

 in 1862 his report on a " Geological Reconnoissauce of Indiana." His later 

 scientific publications relate to physical geography and seismism, and are 

 principally published in the Proceedings of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and in the American Meteorological Journal. 

 His two sons, Eugene and Horace, now reside at New Harmouy.* 



On motion of Mr. G. K. Gilbert, the thanks of the Society were unani- 

 mously voted to Professor J. J. Stevenson for his services as Secretary and 

 for his efficient labors in organizing the Society. 



Mr. G. K. Gilbert made some remarks in announcement of the illness of 

 the President of the Society, Professor J. D. Dana, and Vice-President J. S. 

 Newberry, and moved that the Secretary be instructed to communicate to 

 President Dana and Vice-President Newberry the assurance of the sympathy 

 of the Society in their illness, and hopes for their speedy recovery. The 

 motion was unanimously voted. 



* A sketch of the life and work of Dr. Owen, with a portrait, was published in the American Geolo- 

 gist, vol. VI, 1890, pp. 135-145. 



