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from 1860-63. He was finally compelled to give over these ambitions 

 and entered business life in Boston, moving in 1871 to New York, where 

 lie made his home the rest of his life. He employed himself l)nt part 

 time in business and reserved for various scientific and learned societies 

 liis leisure and his energies. He was president for a time of the Phi Beta 

 Kappa alumni, resident in Xcav York; was councilor and secretary of 

 the American Geographical Society, and became one of the Original Fel- 

 lows of the Geological Society of America, among whose organizing com- 

 mittee of five Charles H. Hitchcock was his old classmate at the AVilliston 

 Seminary and his lifelong friend. 



Mr. Holbrook joined the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 

 18 T8 and was one of its managers from 1895-97. The famous secretary 

 of the Institute for many creative years, the late Rossiter W. Raymond, 

 was one of his intimates, and in the Institute and the Century Society 

 the writer came to be numbered among his good friends nearly twenty- 

 five years ago. Mr. Holbrook took a warm interest in patriotic societies. 

 He was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Sons of the 

 Revolution. For some time he served as registrar-general of the Order 

 of Founders and Patriots of America. He was also a member of the New 

 England Genealogical and Historical Society and of the American Fine 

 Arts Society. Mr. Holbrook thus never followed geology as a profession, 

 but was deeply interested in its progress and a warm supporter of its 

 interests. He was a lover of the world of nature and turned often to 

 travel and enjoyment amid mountains and inspiring scenery. 



Mr. Holbrook was married December 27, 1871, to Yiola Yowers, and 

 he and Mrs. Holbrook had the rare experience of celebrating their fiftieth 

 wedding anniversary in 1921. Mrs. Holbrook followed her husband a 

 few weeks after his death. A son, Clark Holbrook, of Red Bank, New 

 Jersey, and a daughter, Helen, now Mrs. Julian P. Smith, of Upper 

 Montclair, New Jersey, survive their parents. 



ADD]{ES8 OF THE KETIKIXG PRESIDENT 



. The address of the retiring President, Charles Schuchert, on "Sites 

 and nature of the North American geosynclines," was then presented. 

 Since this paper is a part of the "Symposium on the structure and his- 

 tory of mountains and the causes of their development,'' it has been held 

 for publication with that series of papers. 



With this paper, and after a few announcements of changes in program 

 and directions for local guidance were made by the Secretary, the morn- 

 ing session of the Society ended. 



