618 PROCEEDINGS OF THE BALTIMORE MEETING 



Academy. In 1882 Doctor Fuller became president of the Worcester 

 (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute, remaining there till 1894, when 

 he accepted a call to the presidency of Drury College, Springfield, Mis- 

 souri. He filled this post most acceptably till age and broken health 

 compelled him to retire from active life in August, 1905. After this he 

 spent his summers at Fredonia and his winters in the south. Early in 

 the summer of 1908 a severe attack of bronchitis left him in a much 

 weakened condition and pulmonary tuberculosis supervened, and after 

 only a few weeks of treatment, when the most sanguine hopes were enter- 

 tained as to recovery, he was suddenly seized with hemorrhage of the 

 lungs and died on August 14, 1908. 



Doctor Fuller was an Original Fellow of our Society, but his published 

 papers on geological topics number only three, and all of them are ex- 

 tremely short. He was a teacher and an administrator rather than an 

 investigator. At Saint Johnsbury he gave instruction in the earth 

 sciences, and at Worcester he had the department of geology and min- 

 eralogy, "bringing it up to a high standard and making a fine collection of 

 specimens for illustration as well as laboratory work." At Drury he had 

 little time to devote to science. 



On the administrative side, Doctor Fuller's monument is the increased 

 endowment, facilities, enrollment, and general efficiency of the institu- 

 tions of which he was successively at the head. He bore a high reputation 

 for his work and his accomplishments among the college presidents of the 

 middle west. In 1880 he received the honorary degree of Ph. D. from 

 Dartmouth College; in 1898 the degree of D. D. from Iowa College; in 

 1905 the degree of LL. D. from Drury on his retiring from the presi- 

 dency. 



BlBLIOGBAPHY 



Effects of droughts and winds on alluvial deposits of New England. Bulletin of 



the Geological Society of America, vol. 3, 1892, pp. 148-149. 

 Preservation of glaciated rocks (Massachusetts). (Abstract.) Proceedings of 



the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. 39, 1891, p. 



246 (y 2 page). 

 Corundum and emery. Drury Collection, Bradley Field Geological Station, 



vol. i, 1904, pp. 31-33. 



MEMOIR OF W. 8. YE ATE 8 

 BY GEOEGE P. MEBBILL 



William Smith Yeates, State Geologist of Georgia, died at his home in 

 Atlanta on February 19, 1908. Mr Yeates was born in Murfreesboro, 

 North Carolina, December 15, 1856, and graduated at Emory and Henry 



