MEMOIR OF CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER 541 



Hiram Deyer McCaskey, B. 8., Manilla, P. I. Chief of the Mining Bureau of 



Manilla. 

 Benjamin Le Roy Miller, Ph. D., Bryn Mawr, Pa. Associate in Geology, Bryn 



Mawr College, 

 Henry Montgomery, Ph. D., Toronto, Canada. Professor of Geology and Biology 



in Trinity University. 

 Clkophas Cisney 0' Harra, Ph. D., Rapid City, S. Dak. Professor of Mineralogy 



and Geology, South Dakota School of Mines. 

 Albbrt Homer Purdue, B. A., Fayetteville, Ark. Professor of Geology, University 



of Arkansas. 

 Arthur Edmund Seaman, B. S., Houghton, Miss. Professor of Mineralogy and 



Geology, Michigan College of Mines. 

 Solon Shedd, A. B., Pullman, Wash. Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, 



Washington Agricultural College. 

 BohumilShtmek, C. E., M. S., Iowa City, Iowa. Professor of Physiological Botany, 



Iowa State University. 

 Gilbert van Ingen, Princeton, N. J. Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and 



Assistant in Geology, Princeton University. 



No new business was presented. 



The President called for the necrology, and the following memoirs of 

 deceased Fellows were presented. 



In the absence of the author, the first memoir was read by H. E. 

 Gregory : 



MEMOIR OF CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER* 

 BY CHARLES SCHUCHERT 



One of America's leading paleontologists, and a Fellow of this Society 

 since 1889, in the fullness of intellectual power, suddenly passed away on 

 February 14, 1904. Few men were better prepared for great results and 

 more promising of them for the next twenty years than Charles E. 

 Beecher. Dall has said : 



"There is no doubt that in the death of Professor Beecher not only has Yale 

 sustained a serious loss and paleontology a severe blow, but the ranks of those 

 capable of bringing to the study of fossils keen insight and a philosophical spirit 

 of enquiry, guided by principles whose value can hardly be exaggerated, are dimin- 

 ished by one whom science could ill afford to lose." 



Like most successful students of organic life, Beecher was a born natu- 

 ralist. As a boy of twelve years he began to make a collection of recent 

 shells and fossils, continuing to add to this for the next thirty years ; so 

 that, in 1899, he was able to present to Yale University, " uncondition- 



♦Sketches of Beecher have appeared as follows : Yale Alumni Weekly, March 2, 1904, by Bush, 

 Chittenden, Schuchert, and " a graduate student ; *' Science, March 18, 1904, by Dall ; Amer. Natu- 

 ralist, June, 1904, by Jackson; Amer. Geologist, July, 1904, by Clarke; Museums Jour., London, 

 April, 1904; Geol. Mag., London, June, 1904, by Woodward. 



