532 PROCEEDINGS OP THE SAINT LOUIS MEETING 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary announced that the candidates for fellowship had 

 received a nearly unanimous vote of the ballots sent, and that Fellows 

 were elected as follows : 



Arthur Bibbins, Ph. B., Baltimore, Md. Instructor in Geology, Woman's College. 



Gilbert Dennison Harris, Ph. B. 5 Ithaca, N. Y. Assistant Professor of Paleon- 

 tology and Stratigraphic Geology, Cornell University; Geologist in charge of 

 the Geological Survey of Louisiana. 



Richard R. Hice, B. S., Beaver, Pa. Manufacturer of brick and terra-cotta. 



Ernest Howe, Ph. D., Washington, D. C. Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Willis Thomas Lee, Ph. B., M. S., Phoenix, Ariz. Assistant Geologist, U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



William Diller Matthew, Ph. D., New York City. Associate Curator in Verte- 

 brate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History. 



Thomas Leonard Walker, Ph. D., Toronto, Canada. Professor of Mineralogy 

 and Petrography, University of Toronto. 



Fred Boughton Weeks, Washington, D. C. Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Samuel Weidman, Ph. D., Madison, Wis. Geologist, Wisconsin Geological and 

 Natural History Survey. 



Edward 0. Ulrich, D. Sc, Washington, D. C. Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



Frederic Eugene Wright, Ph. D., Houghton, Mich. Assistant State Geologist 

 and Instructor in Petrography, Michigan College of Mines. 



No new business was presented. The President called for the necrol- 

 ogy, and the following memoirs of deceased Fellows were presented. 

 In the absence of the author the first memoir was read by I. C. White : 



MEMOIR OF J. PETER LESLEY 

 BY JOHN J. STEVENSON 



J. Peter Lesley, born in Philadelphia September 17, 1819, died in 

 Milton, Massachusetts, June 1, 1903. 



His youth was spent in Philadelphia, and in 1838 he was graduated 

 at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Henry D. Rogers at once 

 appointed him an aid on the Pennsylvania Geological Survey and in the 

 following spring assigned him to assist Mr Henderson in the anthracite 

 area ; but within a few weeks Mr Henderson was transferred to another 

 district, and Lesley was left alone to collect systematic information from 

 the collieries and to instruct himself in field work. In 1840 he made a 

 topographic and geologic sketch map of the complicated Siluro-Devoniari 

 area between Harrisburg and the New York line, and afterward, as 

 assistant to James T. Hodge, studied the Carboniferous of Somerset and 



