THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
Vol. IV. DECEMBER, 1889. No. 6. 
GEORGE H. COOK, LATE STATE GEOLOGIST OF 
NEW JERSEY. 
John ('. S.MOCK. 
Dr. George H. Cook, state geologist of Xew Jersey and vice 
president of Rutgers College, died at his residence in New- 
Brunswick, N. J., Sunday, September 22, 1889. 
This sudden death of one who was apparently in robu.st 
health and occupied with the responsible duties of directing a 
atate geological survey and an agricultural experiment station, 
besides filling other positions of wide influence, has called out 
many expressions of a feeling of personal bereavement and of 
loss to the state and college which he served so long and so 
faithfully and to science in which he was an eminent leader. 
His efficient and successful management of the geological 
aurvey had gained for him a well earned and world-wide repu- 
tation and his amiable and generous nature and his unselfish 
devotion to science and to the highest interests of the people 
within the circle of his official influence, won for him a host of 
friends. As a teacher in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
in the Albany Academy, and in Rutgers College he had given 
instruction in the natural sciences to a large number of pupils, 
many of whom now mourn their loss. 
George Hammell Cook was born at Hanover, in Morri:= 
