MEMOIR OF EDWARD WALLER CLAYPOLE 487 



Treasurer : 



I. C. White, Morgantown, W. Va. 



Editor : 



J. Stanley-Brown, Washington, D. C. 



Librarian : 

 H. P. Cushing, Cleveland, O. 



Councillors : 



C. W. Hayes, Washington, D. C. 

 J. P. Iddings, Chicago, 111. 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The result of the balloting for Fellows, as canvassed by the Council, 

 was announced, and the following persons were declared elected Fellows 

 of the Societ}^ : 



EtfMixE Oowlks Case, A. B., A. M. (Kansas State University, 1893), M. S. (Cor- 

 nell University, 1895), Ph. D. (University of Chicago, 1896). Instructor in 

 State Normal School, Milwaukee, Wis. 



Arthur Gray Leonard, A. B., A. M. (Oberlin), Ph. D. (Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity), Des Moines, Iowa. Assistant State Geologist, Iowa Geological Survey. 



Charles Hyde Warren, Ph. B. (Yale, 1896), Ph. D. (Yale, 1899), Boston, Mass. 

 Instructor in Geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The following memorials of deceased Fellows were read: 



MEMOIR OF EDWARD WALLER CLAYPOLE* 

 BY THEO. B. COMSTOCK 



Edward Waller CI ay pole, born at Ross, Herefordshire, England, June 

 1, 1835; geologist of world-wide fame and teacher of geology of remark- 

 able personality and effectiveness ; an original fellow of the Geological 

 Society of America; member and ofttimes president of numerous other 

 organizations for the promotion of research, needs no eulogium from one 

 privileged to greet him as monitor, friend, and fellow-worker. The im- 

 press of his severely conscientious labors, the importance of his contri- 

 butions to geologic literature, his unswerving devotion in the cause of 

 its propagation, have left indelible traces on the records of American 

 geology for thirty years now past. Many of my readers are better fitted 



♦The memoir was not read at the meeting, but is here inserted in its place, as on the printed 

 program. 



