MEMORIAL OK (i. V. WRIGHT 15 



ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 



Eollin T. Chamberlin and Frederick Eugene Wright were elected rep- 

 resentatives on the advisory council of the Xational Eesearch Council, to 

 serve from July 1, 1922, to June 30, 1925, inclusive. 



ELECTION OF COMMITTEE ON THE TEACHING OF GEOLOGY 



H. F. Qleland, H. L. Fairchikl, G. F. Kay, F. L. Eansome, W. S. 

 Bayley, and C. P. Berkey were elected as members of the Committee on 

 the Teaching of Geology. 



NECROLOGY 



The Secretary announced the death during the year of five Fellows, 

 four of whom were original Fellows of the Society. Brief oral tributes 

 were given as follows : Of Henry P. Gushing by James F. Kemp ; of 

 Orestes H. Saint John by the Secretary, abstracting the written me- 

 morial of Charles E. Keyes ; of J. W. Spencer by E. \V. Shaw ; of M. E. 

 YVadsworth by A. C. Lane; of G. F. Wright by J. B. Woodwortb, follow- 

 ing the manuscript of Warren Upham. The written memorials follow. 



MEMORIAE OF GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT x 



BY WARREN UPHAM 



An earnest observer, thoughtful investigator, and popular author, 

 writing for the multitude of general readers not less than for his fellow- 

 specialists, is gratefully remembered and honored in the present me- 

 morial. Through forty-five years he has been my friend and associate 

 in studies of the Ice Age, his earliest glacial publications being descrip- 

 tive of gravel ridges, called kames and later eskers, in the vicinity of his 

 second pastorate. During a previous ministry of ten years he had found 

 a favorite recreation in many short excursions over the Green Mountains 

 of Vermont and in the Adirondack region, examining carefully their 

 drift deposits, whose origin or mode of formation Avas then only very 

 imperfectly understood by geologists. 



George Frederick Wright, revered pastor, teacher, glacial ist, and 

 archaeologist, was born in Whitehall, Xew York, at the head of Lake 

 Champlain, January 22, 1838. His grandfather, Enoch Wright, born 

 in 1763, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who served near the end of the 

 Revolutionary War in the Virginia campaign that culminated with the 

 surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, was afterward a pioneer fanner 

 in Whitehall. The father, Walter Wright, and the mother, whose 



1 Manuscript received by the Secretary of the Society December 12, 1021. 



