RESOLUTIONS OF APPRECIATION OF E. O. HOVEY / / 



iiig to the afRliatecl societies. The Paleontological Society became the first 

 aflBliate, the Mineralogical Society of America the second, and last year the 

 Society of Economic Geologists joined the group. By this wise arrangement 

 excessive and weakening subdivision is avoided, while a large degree of prac- 

 ticable unity is maintained. 



' "The Geological Society desires to express and record upon its minutes a 

 warm and cordial expression of appreciation of the unselfish service given by 

 its retiring Secretary and to wish him the successful completion of the scien- 

 tific labors to which he desires to give his entire efforts and attention. 



(Signed) James F. Kemp, Chairman. 



John M. Clarke. 



R. A. F. Penrose, Jr." 



To this Dr. HoveVj in retiring from this long and useful service, re- 

 sponded briefly and with more than a touch of feeling, as he recalled 

 many years of intimate association with the leading men in American 

 geology. 



REPLY BY EDMUND OTIS HOVEY 



Mr. Toastmaster, Professor Kemp, Fellows of the Geological Society 

 of America and other friends, you have quite overwhelmed me with your 

 feeling introduction, with the splendid resolutions, which give me more 

 credit than I deserve and which will always be preserved with my most 

 treasured archives, and with this beautiful token of your affectionate 

 regard, which will ever remind me of my long term of most enjoyable 

 service as Secretary of the best scientific society in the world. You may 

 rest assured that I shall follow Professor Kemp's injunction to make the 

 vase "say it with flowers" as a memento to my family of the hosts of 

 friends that my relations with the Society have brought me. I am so 

 greatly affected by all this that I cannot express my feelings in words, or 

 reply adequately to the graceful pre-obituary that Professor Kemp has 

 pronounced regarding me. I can only say I thank you all from the 

 bottom of my heart. 



During my incumbency as Secretary about one hundred different men 

 have served on the Council, and they have been drawn from all parts of 

 the country — the representative geologists of America. The close asso- 

 ciation with such men as Van Hise, Calvin, Gilbert, Hague, Davis, Fair- 

 child, E. A. Smith, Becker, Coleman, Clarke, Adams, Cross, I. C. White, 

 Merriam, Kemp, and Schuchert — to name only the presidents in suc- 

 cession — has been of inestimable value to me. 



My relations with the efficient treasurers of the Society, the lamented 

 W. B. Clark and his successor, E. B. Mathews, and with the hard-worked 

 editor, Joseph Stanley-Brown, have been even more intimate and have 



