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It was not his main work, but the breadth of his scientific interest and 

 the general esteem in which he was held, that led to his connection with 

 this Society as one of its initial members. His special geological interest 

 lay in the lines of volcanic phenomena which he studied in southern Eu- 

 rope. His too great modesty, however, withheld him from publication 

 in a department not primarily his own. His geological studies were 

 therefore chiefly serviceable as a source of personal culture and a ba^is 

 of instruction. 



He taught geology for many years, and it was the privilege of the writer 

 to be one of his pupils nearly thirty years ago. Coming to the subject 

 as a required study without enthusiasm and with a theological prejudice 

 that would fain have found it all a fallacy, he was so led about by the 

 fairness and frankness of Professor Nason's catholicity and by the irref- 

 ragable evidence which his personal observations brought into play to 

 support the doctrines of the text that the life-interest of the pupil was 

 turned into a wholly unexpected channel. 



As a teacher, Professor Nason was an expositor rather than a drill- 

 master. His aim was to set forth the truth in its fairest light and leave 

 it to win its own way, and the gentleness and grace of his exposition 

 doubtless often won when forceful argumentation or zealous propagandism 

 would have failed. 



Professor Nason was a man of singular gentleness and refinement of 

 character. He possessed the esteem and affection of his associates in all 

 relations of life in a very unusual degree. Students, faculty, citizens and 

 scientific acquaintances alike entertained for him an .exceptional regard 

 as a man, a citizen and a scientist. His memory will remain with all as 

 one of singular sweetness. 



The following memorial was read by J. F. Kemp in the absence of the 

 author : 



MEMOIR OF ALBERT E. FOOTE 

 BY GEORGE F. KUNZ 



The recent death of Professor Albert E. Foote, which occurred on the 

 10th of October, at Atlanta, Georgia, after a five days' illness, and just 

 on the eve of a Florida trip, has removed from among us one of the most 

 widely known representatives of the science of mineralogy on this con- 

 tinent, and it is eminently fitting that some formal reference to his life 

 and work should be made. 



Dr Foote was born at Hamilton, Madison county, New York, in 1846 ; 

 he came of early Massachusetts stock, and some of his ancestors earned 



