516 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROCHESTER MEETING 



MEMOIR OF JOSEPH LE CONTE* 

 BY W J MCGEE 



In the absence of the author, the following memoir was read by 

 Richard E. Dodge : 



MEMOIR OF THEODORE GREELY WHITE 

 BY J. F. KEMP] 



Theodore Greely White was born in New York August 6, 1872, and 

 passed away, after a brief illness, in the city of his birth, July 7, 1901. 

 He fitted for college at the Columbia Grammar School and entered the 

 School of Mines of Columbia University in the course in geology and 

 paleontology in October, 1890. He received the degree of Ph. B. June, 

 1894, and immediately registered for graduate work as a candidate for 

 M. A. and Ph. D. The former degree he received in 1895 and the latter 

 in 1898. In 1896 he was appointed assistant in the Department of 

 Physics, Columbia University, and held that position until 1900, being 

 especially in charge of the experimental work in optics. The organiza- 

 tion of this particular laboratory at the new site in Columbia University 

 largely fell to him, and in the work he displayed administrative ability 

 which won for him the warm commendation of his superiors. As a boy, 

 Doctor White early manifested a special interest in natural science. His 

 Ph. B. thesis was a description of the geology of Essex and Willsboro, 

 towns on lake Champlain. In connection with this work he became 

 interested in the faunas of the Trenton strata in the Champlain valley 

 and determined upon a study of them as his thesis for Ph. D. To this 

 end he studied them not alone in the Champlain region, but all around 

 the Adirondack crystalline area. His thesis for the M. A. degree was a 

 petrographical description of the Quincy granite near Boston, which he 

 undertook in association with Professor Crosby, of the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



The full results of Doctor White's work upon the Trenton fossils have 

 not yet been published, as the manuscript remains to be issued. His 

 chief results were, however, presented to this Society in 1898. Doctor 

 White was a man of indefatigable industry and of great perseverance. 

 Besides his efforts in geology, he had a number of additional undertak- 

 ings in hand. He was especially interested in the parish work of the 

 Church of the Holy Communion, Sixth avenue and Twentieth street, 



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

 program. It has not been possible for Mr McGee, who consented to prepare this memoir, to 

 furnish the manuscript in time for publication in this volume. It will probably appear in volume 

 14. 



