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Principles of Geology," to be delivered at Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity in April, under the G. H. Williams Memorial lectureship, 

 by Professor W. C. Brogger, of Christiania ; also the receipt of 

 the program of the International Geological Congress, at which 

 the Academy will be represented by Professor J. J. Stevenson. 



The chair also announced the death of Dr. Oliver P. Hubbard, 

 one of the earliest members of the Academy. 



On motion of Professor R. E. Dodge, a committee of three 

 was appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Dr. Hubbard, 

 and the chair appointed Dr. Julien, Professor Stevenson and 

 Dr. Hovey such committee. 



Professor Stevenson presented the following minute upon 

 the life of Dr. H. B. Geinitz, whose death was announced at the 

 February meeting : 



" Professor Hans Bruno Geinitz, for many years an Honorary 

 Member of this Academy, died January 23, 1900, in the 86th 

 year of his age. His work as a geologist began very early, for 

 in 1837, when only twenty years old, he published a paper on 

 the Muschelkalk. From that time until within a few weeks of 

 his death, brief notices, memoirs and volumes appeared in rapid 

 succession. There seemed to be no limit to his capacity for 

 hard work. He studied the Cretaceous, Triassic and Carbonif- 

 erous in detail, and his works on the coal fields of Saxony and 

 Germany were marvels, when published, half a century ago. 

 His papers on palaeontology — vertebrate and invertebrate — and 

 palaeobotany, are numerous and important. 



He was put in charge of the Royal Mineralogical Cabinet in 

 1846, and retained the position until 1898. The collections in- 

 creased rapidly, so that in 1857, the Royal Cabinet became the 

 Royal Museum, which, in later years, was one of the chief at- 

 tractions for foreign visitors. In addition to his other labors he 

 was Professor of Mineralogy in the Royal Polytechnic School of 

 Dresden, from 1850 to 1896, serving meanwhile upon numer- 

 ous government commissions. 



Professor Geinitz was a typical student, caring little for things 

 of this world, devoted to geology and liis family. He was 

 genial, sincere, a tender father, a generous friend. By his death 



