82 The American Naturalist. [January, 
Ancient Mounds in Ohio, Mr. Warren K. Moorhead; Geographic 
Nomenclature of the District and Vicinity,a Symposium, Mr. James 
Mooney, Prof. Lester F. Ward, Mr. W. H. Holmes, Mr. W. Hallet 
Phillips, Mr. W. H. Babcock, and Dr. Frank Baker. 
Weston FLINT, Secretary. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
Prof. John S. Newberry, Professor of Geology in Columbia Col- 
lege, New York, died at New Haven, December7. He wasborn at Wind- 
sor, Conn., in 1822, and was the descendant of an old and distinguished 
Puritan family. He was graduated from Western Reserve College in 
1846, and from Cleveland Medical College in 1848. After two years’ 
travel and study in Europe he established himself as a physician in 
Cleveland. He returned to his scientific studies, which had long been 
in abeyance, in 1855, when he accepted an appointment as acting 
assistant surgeon in the army, and accompanied, as surgeon and geolo- 
gist, the expedition under Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, U. S. A. 
which explored the territory lying between San Francisco and the 
Columbia River. In 1857-58 he was attached, in the same capacity, 
to the expedition under Lieutenant J. C. Ives, U. S. A., which made 
the first exploration of the Colorado River, one of the most important 
of the western territory surveys. Dr. Newberry, in 1859, participated 
in the exploration of the country bordering the upper Colorado an 
San Juan Rivers. During the war of the rebellion Dr. Newberry was- 
a member of the United States Sanitary Commission, and directed its 
operations in the Valley of the Mississippi. In 1866 he was appointed 
professor of geology in the School of Mines, Columbia College. In 
1869 he was appointed head of the reorganized Ohio Geological Sur- 
vey, and under his direction the work was vigorously pushed to com- 
pletion. 
Prof. Newberry had probably seen more of the United States from 
a professional point of view than any other of our geologists. He 
will be best known from his work on fossil plants and fossil fishes. 
- He was especially conscientious in his comparisons of American with 
European forms of extinct life that came under his observation. Per- _ : 
sonally he was of a rather impetuous- temperament, whose strong 
friendships were offset by a spice of irascibility without malice. He 
will be greatly missed from his place in the scientific life of America. 
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