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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ALBUQUERQUE MEETING 



ELECTION OF FELLOWS 



The Secretary stated that the candidates for fellowship had been 

 elected by the transmitted Ijallots, with but few dissenting votes. The 

 list is as follows : 



Clarence Edwakd Dutton. A. B. (Yale, '60), Major, U. S. A. (retired), Engle- 

 wood. New Jersey. 



D. P. Penhallow, B. S., M. S., So. D., Botanical Laboratories, McGill Univer- 

 sity, Montreal, Canada. Professor of Botany, McGill University. 



Percy Edwabd Raymond, B. A., Ph. D., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Assistant 

 Curator of Invertebrate Fossils, Carnegie Museum. 



Thomas Edmund Savage, A. B., B. S., M. S., University of Illinois, Urbana, 

 Illinois. 



NECROLOOY 



On call of the President, memorials of the Fellows who had died since 

 the New York meeting were read as follows : 



MEMOIR OF JAMES MERRILL SAFFORD 

 BY J. J. STEVENSON 



James Merrill Safford, Ph. D., M. D., was born in Zanesville, Ohio, 

 August 13, 1822, and died in Dallas, Texas, July 3, 1907. He was de- 

 scended from sturdy New England ancestry, Thomas Safford having 

 come from England to Massachusetts in 1630. The family was impor- 

 tant in colonial times, and in later days counted among its members 

 many prominent physicians. His father moved to Zanesville shortly 

 before the birth of Professor Safford. He received his preparatory 

 training in Zanesville and aftem^ards attended the Ohio University 

 at Athens, where he was graduated in 1844. He spent two years in 

 study at Yale, and soon after his return he was called to Cumberland 

 University, at Lebanon, Tennessee, as professor of chemistry and natural 

 history, where he remained until 1873, when he was chosen professor of 

 chemistry in the medical school of the University of Nashville. Vander- 

 bilt University was opened in 1875, and the chair of geology and natural 

 history was assigned to him ; he remained in full discharge of the duties 

 until 1900. During much of this time he delivered the chemical lectures 

 in the medical department, and for several years he was dean of the col- 

 lege of pharmacy. He was member of the State Board of Health from 

 1866 to 1896, and during the greater part of that period was vice-presi- 

 dent of the board. 



Professor Safford's geological work began in 1850, and his first re- 

 corded paper was jjublished in 1851, when most of the Fellows of this 



