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Mr, Fitz has left with his bereaved family precious legacies of experi- 
ence and material which it is hoped will enable them to continue his op- 
tical labors in a worthy manner. 
Pror. E. Emmons.—Died, at his plantation, in Brunswick, N. C., Oc- 
tober Ist, 1863, Professor Eszyezer Emmons, M.D. Born in Middlefield, 
Mass., in 1798, he was graduated at Williams College in the class of 
818. He studied medicine and received the degree of M.D. from the 
sections; and to him was assigned the N.E. portion of the State on the 
coast of Lake Ontario and south to the counties of Herkimer, Lewis an 
Saratoga, as the divisions were in 1842, when his report was published. 
r. Emmons removed from his home in Massachusetts to Albany, that 
-he might be in the centre of the great geological survey. There he was 
made a Professor in one of the chairs of the Albany Medical College. 
To his Geological Report, he added successive reports on the agriculture 
There his life was closed. On his exhibition of his fossil collections in 
North Carolina, at the meeting of the Scientific Association at Albany in 
1856, Professor Agassiz stated that the discoveries were of a higher 
character in geology than any published for years. 
The offices Dr. Emmons held show the public estimate of his qualifica- 
tions and acquisitions. His labors show that this estimate was not too 
high or misplaced. 
Tn his Report on the Second (his) District of New York, which before 
is examination was unknown as to its geology, Dr. Emmons gave a lucid 
and full view of the rocks and their relations, and chapter vir and the two 
following contain his “ Taconic System,” or the rocks between the fossil- 
iferous of Eastern New York and the primary rocks of the western part 
of New England. In the Report on the Agriculture of the State, pub- 
lished in 1843, Dr. Emmons gave an expanded and interesting view of 
the Taconic System. Though opposed by some of his associated geolo- 
gists and by some others of high distinction, the author has found 
support in some distinguished geologists of Europe. Dr. Emmons died 
