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four years, have given occasion for an annual notice in this 

 Journal of the very faithful and valuable work he has done for 

 the science. In 1888 appeared the first volume of the Final 

 Report, and the second was completed, and is in the press. It is 

 a serious loss that he did not live to finish the closing volumes and 

 give his matured views on the various subjects illustrated by the 

 facts he had long been collecting. He lived to see the topograph- 

 ical survey ended and the maps published, and had the satisfac- 

 tion of knowing that New Jersey was the first State to be thus 

 thoroughly surveyed. His work was always practical as well as 

 scientific, and greatly valued for its contributions to the econom- 

 ical interests of the State. The subjects of the iron ore beds, 

 clays, marls, and all contributions of geology to the arts inter- 

 ested him no less than the geological structure of the country. 

 The change of level by a slow subsidence along the Atlantic 

 shore was one of the topics he studied with care and with results 

 of the highest interest. He was the organizer of the State Board 

 of Agriculture of New Jersey, a member of the State Board of 

 Health, and in 1886 was made chief director of the New Jersey 

 State Weather service. He was also long the President of the 

 New Brunswick Board of Water Commissioners. 



Dr. Cook was born in Hanover, New Jersey, in the year 1817. 

 He entered the Troy Polytechnic Institute in 1839, and was one 

 of the many students that derived, from the enthusiasm and prac- 

 tical instruction of Amos Eaton, their first impetus in geological 

 science. In 1842 he was senior professor and acting President of 

 the Institute, Professor Eaton having died in May of that year. 

 He was for awhile principal of the Albany Academy. In 1852 

 he left this position for the chair of Chemistry and Natural Phil- 

 osophy in Rutgers College; and in 1864 was placed at the head 

 of the New Jersey Geological Survey. 



Professor Cook was honored with the degree of Doctor of Phil- 

 osophy from the University of the City of New York and of 

 Doctor of Laws from Union College. He was a man of great 

 excellence of character, unassuming, always commanding the 

 confidence and calling out the highest esteem among those with 

 whom he came in contact. He leaves a widow and two'children. 



Leo Lesquereux. — Professor Leo Lesquereux, eminent in the 

 department of Fossil Plants, died on the 20th of October last at 

 Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Fleurier, Canton of Neuchatel, 

 Switzerland, in 1806. His parents were V. Aime and Marie Ann 

 Lesquereux, whose ancestors were Huguenots, fugitives from 

 France after the edict of Nantes. His education, collegiate and 

 academical, was received at the college and academy at Neu- 

 chatel, where he was a fellow student of Guyot. In youth he 

 was by nature and disposition, a naturalist, though he was edu- 

 cated for theology. At the age of '26 he had the great misfortune 

 to become deaf, and from then for twelve years worked as an 

 engraver of watch cases and a manufacturer of watch springs. 

 He first became known in science as a bryologist and by re- 



