6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PRINCETON MEETING 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary announced the election in due form of the following 

 Fellows, the ballots having been canvassed and counted by the Council : 



RoLLiN Thomas Chambeelin, S. B., Ph. D., University of Chicago, Chicago, 



111. 

 Clarence Everett Gordon, B. S., A. M., Ph. D., Massachusetts Agricultural 



College, Amherst, Mass. 

 Louis C. Graton, B. S., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Chris A. Hartnagel, B. S., Pd. B., M. A., State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 

 Miguel A. R. Lisboa, Director Irrigation and Water Supply Service, Rio de 



Janeiro, Brazil. 

 G. A. F. Molengraaf, Technical High School, Delft, Holland. 

 Chester A. Reeds, B. S., M. S., Ph. D., American Museum of Natural History, 



New York, N. Y. 

 MiGNON Talbot, A. B., Ph. D., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 

 Arthur C. Trowbridge, B. S., Ph. D., State University of Iowa, Iowa City, 



Iowa. 

 William Henry Twenhofel, B. A., M. A., Ph. D., University of Kansas, 



Lawrence, Kans. 

 Joseph B. Umpleby, A. B., M. S., Ph. D., U. S. Geological Survey, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 

 Charles E. Weaver, B. S., Ph. D., University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 



Announcement was then made that the Society had lost one Fellow by 

 death during the year 1913 : W. M. Fontaine, and one Correspondent, 

 Herman Credner. A memorial of the deceased Fellow was presented as 

 follows : 



MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM M. FONTAINE 

 BY THOMAS L. WATSON 



Professor Fontaine, who for thirty-two years (1879-1911) was Cor- 

 coran Professor of Natural History and Geology in the University of 

 Virginia, died suddenly at his home at the university on April 30, 1913, 

 in his seventy-eighth year. Though of an advanced age, he was appar- 

 ently in good health and was no less active mentally and physically at 

 the time of his demise than for several years previous. His passing away 

 was entirely unexpected, and his sudden death brought forth expressions 

 of the deepest sympathy and, regret from the entire university com- 

 munity. 



It is of more than passing interest that the subject of this sketch and 

 Prof. Lester F. Ward, collaborators and both distinguished for investiga- 

 tions in the field of paleobotany, should have died within a few weeks of 



