S04 PROCEEDINGS OF THE WASHINGTON MEP:TING 



ELECTIOy OF FELLOWS 



The Secretaiy announced that the candidates for fellowship had re- 

 ceived a nearl}^ unanimous vote of the ballots sent, and that they were 

 elected as follows : 



George Irving Adams, A. M., Sc. D., Washington, 1). C. Geologist, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. 



Joseph Barrkll, Ph. D., South Bethleliem, Pa. Assistant Professor of Geology, 

 Lehigh University. 



Joshua William Beede, Ph. D., Bloomington, Ind. Instructor in Geology, In- 

 diana University. 



Charles Kenneth Leith, Ph. D., Madison, Wis. Assistant Geologist, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey ; Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Wisconsin. 



WiLLET Gkkex Miller, M. A., Bureau of Mines, Toronto, Canada. Provincial 

 Geologist of Ontario. 



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

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



MEMOIR OF ALPHEUS HYATT* 

 BY W. O. CROSBY 



In the death of Professor Alpheus Hyatt the cause of science has met 

 with a double loss — the loss of a careful investigator, whose work en- 

 riched the world's store of scientific knowledge, and of a science teacher, 

 who, in teaching others to teach, spread the love and appreciation of 

 science broadcast. Along both these lines his work was of the best, and 

 bore that stamp of vitality and originality which was characteristic of 

 the man. 



He was an investigator who labored with painstaking zeal in the field 

 of research, but always with eyes on the bounding horizon. To extend 

 this horizon by the discovery of new truths was one of the dearest ob- 

 jects of his heart, and one which he was privileged to attain. The phil- 

 osophical results of his work as an investigator, sustained as they are by 

 a foundation of well established facts, give it a value of the highest rank. 



'As a teacher, his enthusiasm for direct contact with nature and his 

 energy in making this mode of study possible were such that to his 

 pupils no other way of studying nature appears permissible and no 

 obstacle which stands in the way of learning her lessons at first hand 

 too difficult to be overcome. 



Descended from an old Maryland family, he was born in Washington, 

 D. C, April 6. 1838. He lived to be nearly sixty-four years of age, and 



* Professor Crosbj- was not present when the memoir was called, and it was read at the session 

 of Wednesday morning. It is, however, inserted here in its appropriate place. 



