70 I'ROCEEDIKCJS i)V ri^llR ALBANY MEETING 



Autliracite coal regiou. Auuual Report of the I'eiiiisylvaiiia State Survey, 

 1886. 



The metallic paint ores along the T.ehigh River. Annual Report of the Penn- 

 sylvania State Survey, 188G. 



Lehigh River Section, Lock No. 11, to the Blue Mountain. Annual Report of 

 the Pennsylvania State Survey. 1886. 



All the mine sheets, etcetera, of the northern and southern coal fields with the 

 exception of the Panther Creek district were constructed under his di- 

 rection. 



Geology and mining in the northern anthracite coal field. Proceedings of the 

 American Institute. 



Hill farm — Parrish Mine fire. Proceedings of the American Institute. 



Analyses of Penns.\ivania coal apples. Proceedings of the American Institute. 



i^rKIWOlJTAL OF CJIAKLFS SMITH P1{0SSEU 

 EY E. K. CUMINGS 



The iiiitiniely death of Prof. Charles Smith Prosser has removed from 

 our ranks another of the original Fellows of tlie Geological Society of 

 America. He was one of that little company who in 1888 founded this 

 society, now grown so great in numbers and influence. Pie was also one 

 of the first members of another distinguished, society — the Society of 

 Sigma XI — which today has come to exercise a great and. increasing 

 influence in that field which Professor Prosser loved so well and in which 

 he wrought so splendidly — the field of university teaching and research. 

 These two circumstances very well typify the two supreme interests of 

 his life, to which he devoted himself with unflagging and. unselfish devo- 

 tion. Pie was a teacher and an in^'estigator. 



Charles Smith Prosser was born March 21, IS 60, in Columbus, Che- 

 nango County, Xew York, ninth in the line of descent on his mother's 

 side from William and Elizabeth Tuttle, of New Haven, Connecticut. 

 His father was Smith Prosser, a fariner of somewhat slender substance 

 in the hills along the LTnadilla A'alley. His Xew England forebear came 

 from England to Boston in 1635, and later resided in Xew Haven. For 

 thirty years the Tuttle homestead was the only land owned by Yale 

 College. SaMige says: ''Of Yale's 10,000 "acad.emic graduates (up to 

 1883), one in 2~) is known to I)c of 'Fuftle lineage"! Its officers, tutors, 

 professors, and i'ellows are in a still larger ratio, and of its eleven presi- 

 dents, Dwight and Woolsey ruled the college for more than one-fourth 

 of its existence.'' From Elizabeth Tuttle, sister of Jonathan, second in 

 the line of descent from William Tuttle, were descended Timothy Dwight, 

 the Edwardses, and many others whose names figure prominently in the 

 genealogies. In 1893 he was mari-icd to Mary Frances Wilson, of Albany. 



