EMMONS MEMORIAL TABLET Li 



It was during the fall of 1838. Yanuxem was asked to see or coQimunicate with 

 the Rogerses concerning it, but nothing came of it that year. The next year we 

 reiterated our purpose, as the intention was to ^et some means of comparing our 

 results with those of other geologists in other states, especially in Pennsylvania. 

 This meeting was held at Doctor Emmons's house, the four geologists being present 

 and perhaps also Conrad. Ebenezer Emmons, Jr., was also there. We then de- 

 cided to communicate again with the Rogerses and others for the end already sug- 

 gested and to organize a society of geologists for this especial purpose. We wanted 

 to compare our results with those of others and make up our nomenclature, and 

 we had to do it soon, as we were required to publish. As a result of this unani- 

 mously expressed purpose, a meeting was called for April, 1840, in Philadelphia. 

 I was present then, but not at the second Philadelphia meeting in 1841, as that year 

 I was off in May and June with D. D. Owen on a flatboat sailing down the Ohio, 

 sleeping on a box and collecting fossils all along from Louisville to New Harmony. 

 As far as Rogers was concerned, the meeting came to naught. He was not ready 

 with his results and gave them only at the third meeting at Boston in 1842. It was 

 here that the naturalists proposed to join us, and we agreed thereto, but the Boston 

 meeting was called as the meeting of the Association of American Geologists, and 

 in the course of that meeting the name was changed to that of Association of 

 American Geologists and Naturalists. 



B. Statement dictated to John M. Clarke by Ebenezer Emmons, Jr., February, 

 1900: 



I was present at the meeting of the four geologists at my father's house, in 1838. 

 I was then about 16 years old, and had assisted my father in his field work and 

 making drawings and sketches. Mr Conrad, the paleontologist, was also present. 

 I recollect that the board of geologists then authorized Mr Vanuxem to open corre- 

 spondence with others for the purpose of effecting an organization. 



In pursuance of this action a bronze tablet, measuring 14 by 24 inches, 

 has been placed on the old Emmons house at the corner of Hudson 

 avenue and High street, Albany, and serves to commemorate in some 

 measure the services to American science of the four state geologists of 

 the Geological Survey of New York (1836-'42). 



The following resolution of thanks was offered by J. A. Holmes and 

 unanimously adopted by rising vote : 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Geological Society of America are heartily 

 extended to the Pittsburg Local Committee and the trustees of the Oakland 

 Methodist church for the generous provision for the meeting of the Society; to IMr 

 James R. Macfarlane, Chairman of the Local Excursion Committee, for his labors 

 in connection with the geological excursions, and to Dr I. 0. White for his ex- 

 tended excursion through the Pittsburg and Monongahela regions. 



The Society then adjourned. 



