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prepare a minute respecting the late Professor Hubbard, offered 

 the following : 



•' Oliver Payson Hubbard was born in Pomfret, Conn., 

 March 31, 1809, and died in New York, March 9, 1900. After 

 graduating at Yale College in 1828, he remained in that insti- 

 tution as assistant to Professor Silliman until he began his study 

 of medicine, which he completed in 1837, when he received the 

 degree of M.D. from the South Carolina Medical College at 

 Charleston. 



" Prior to his graduation in medicine, he was made Professor 

 of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Geology, and Mineralogy in Dart- 

 mouth College. In 1871, the Chair was restricted to Chemistry 

 and Pharmacy, and no longer required his full time, so that he 

 was able soon afterwards to make New York his home during 

 much of the year. In 1883, he felt that he has already passed 

 the age when one should retire from a professorship, and re- 

 signed his position, becoming professor emeritus. Thereafter 

 he remained in New York. 



*' His youthful love of science led him to Yale that he might 

 study under Professor Silliman, then the prominent teacher of 

 science in our country. His first publication, entitled * Geo- 

 logical and Mineralogical Notices,' having reference to locali- 

 ties in Northern New York, appeared in the American Journal 

 of Science in 1837, and was followed in 1838 by a somewhat 

 more elaborate article upon the White Mountains. He attended 

 the 1 841 meeting of the Association of American Geologists 

 and Naturalists and read a paper of capital importance upon the 

 slates of Waterville, Maine, in which he discussed the markings 

 upon the slates, and indicated their organic origin, which he re- 

 garded as proving their great age. He was present also at 

 the third meeting, and took a prominent part in the discussion 

 of the * drift,' so that he was appointed member of the commit- 

 tee to prepare a report upon that subject for the next meeting. 

 He was elected Secretary of the Association for 1833, and, with 

 Benjamin Silliman, Jr., served in the same office for 1844. His 

 duties at Dartmouth were exacting, so that for many years he 

 published few extended papers ; but he made many brief com- 



