HARVARD NECROLOGY.

April, May, June, July, August, and September, 1882.

BY JOHN LANGDON SIBLEY, Librarian Emeritus, and Editor of the Quinquennial Catalogue.

Graduates and Class Secretaries are requested to send to the writer class reports, both new and old, and all newspapers which contain obituaries and other notices of Harvardians. It is important to have the places of birth and death, and, in addition to the year, to have the month and day of the month.

The final figures are those of the person's age.

Graduates.

1804. Joseph Head, b. 20 August, 1785, at Boston; d. at Wheeling, Va., 11 April, 1882, 96.

1807. William Thomas, b. 15 March, 1789, at Plymouth; d. at Plymouth, 20 September, 1882, 93. 1814. Jairus Lincoln, b. 16 April, 1794, at Boston; d. at Northboro', 12 May, 1882, 88.

1817. James Diman Green (Rev.), b. 8 September, 1798,

at Malden; d. at Cambridge, 18 August, 1882, 83. 1818. George Osborne, M.D., b. 23 December, 1798, at Salem; d. at Peabody, 21 September, 1882, 83. 1819. Milton Palmer Braman, D.D., b. 6 August, 1799, at Georgetown; d. at Auburndale, 10 April, 1882, 82.

1821. Ralph Waldo Emerson, LL.D., b. 25 May, 1803, at Boston; d. at Concord, 27 April, 1882, 78.

1824. Phinchas Miller Crane, M.D., b. 28 November, 1804, at Canton; d. at East Boston, 13 August, 1882, 77.

1828. George Nichols, b. 30 January, 1809, at Salem; d. at Cambridge, 6 July, 1882, 73.

1829. Chandler Robbins, D.D., b. 14 February, 1810, at Lynn; d. at Weston, 11 September, 1882, 72. 1830. Elisha Reynolds Potter, b. 20 June, 1811, at South Kingstown, R. I.; d. at South Kingstown, R. I., 10 April, 1882, 70.

1833. Rufus Campbell Torrey, b. 13 February, 1813, at Oxford; d. at Claiborne, Ala., 13 September, 1882, 69.

1837. Christopher Columbus Holmes, M.D., b. 14 September, 1817, at Peterboro', N. H.; d. at Milton, 16 July, 1882, 64.

1842. James Greenough, b. 8 October, 1821, at Jamaica Plain; d. at Boston, 8 July, 1882, 60.

1843. William Cushing Binney, LL.B., b. 24 April, 1823, at Boston; d. at Rochester, N. Y., 2 June, 1882, 59.

1844. James Morison, M.D., b. 20 June, 1818, at Peterboro', N. H.; d. at Quincy, 20 May, 1882, 63. 1850. William Lathrop Burt, LL.B., b. 6 April, 1828, at Ithaca, N. Y.; d. at Saratoga Springs, 21 April, 1882, 54.

1857. George McKean Folsom (Rev.), b. 6 February, 1837, at Cambridge; d. at Boston, 20 May, 1882, 45. 1859. Horatio Paine, M.D., b. 5 September, 1838, at New York, N. Y.; d. at London, England, I May, 1882, 43.

1867. Charles Henry Spencer, b. 1 August, 1846, at Boston; d. at Texarkana, Texas, 12 July, 1882,

35.

1869. Francis Atwood, M.D., b. 20 August, 1848, at Franklin; d. at St. Paul, Minnesota, 6 August, 1882, 33.

1872. Alfred Withington Field, b. 16 May, 1851, at Leominster; d. at Leominster, 29 July, 1882, 31.

1873. Frederic Herbert Copeland, M.D., b. 4 October, 1852, at Boston; d. at Deer Island, Boston Harbor, 16 May, 1882, 29.

1873. Charles Abner Ham, b. 4 May, 1852, at Farmington, N. H.; d. at West Medford, 5 June, 1882, 30. 1878. Edward Prescott Reed, b. 12 October, 1854, at Stow; d. at the West, in 1882, 27.

1879. George Lyman Dolloff, b. 19 December, 1857, at Exeter, N. H.; drowned at Exeter, N. H., 20 September, 1882, 24.

1880. Walter Allen Smith, b. 25 December, 1859; d. at London, England, 8 April, 1882, 22.

Medical.

1828. John Onthank Fay, b. 1 May, 1803, at Southboro'; d. at Mentor, Minn., 1 September, 1882, 79. 1837. Alvan Smith, b. 23 May, 1808, at Palmer; d. at Monson, 6 August, 1882, 74.

1840. Abraham Osgood Dickey, of Worcester [month, day, year, and place of birth not known]; drowned at Fairlee Lake, Vt., 3 September, 1882, 62. 1844. Augustus Mason, b. 2 October, 1823, at Waltham; d. at Brighton, 24 May, 1882, 58.

1844. Harvey Eliphaz Weston, b. 20 June, 1817, at Weymouth; d. at Weymouth, 29 June, 1882, 65. 1847. John Henry Jennings, b. at Winchester, Va.; d. at New Bedford, 31 July or 1 August, 1882. 1847. Lewis Edward Whiting, b. at Plainfield, 1814; d. at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 2 August, 1882. 1854. George Marshall Howe, b. at Sudbury [date of birth not known]; d. at Framingham, 16 September, 1882, 58.

1863. George Merrick Nichols, b. 3 April, 1826, at Brimfield; d. at West Medford, 28 June, 1882, 56. 1877. John Bernard Foley, b. [month and day not known] 1850, at Roxbury; d. at Roxbury, 25 July, 1882, 32.

1878. William Philip Kelley, b. 1856, at Ireland [month, day, and town not known]; d. at Boston, 9 April, 1882, 26.

Law.

1841. Simon Forrester Barstow, b. [month, day, and place not known]; d. at Oak land, Md., 31 July, 1882.

Theological.

1830. John Owen, b 28 March, 1806, at Portland, Me.; d. at Cambridge, 22 April, 1882, 76.

1835. George Matthias Rice [place and date of birth not known]; d. at Dublin, N. H., 22 or 28 September, 1882, 68.

Honorary.

1856. John Henry Hill, D.D. [place and date of birth unknown]; d. at Athens, Greece, about the first of July, 1882.

1859. George Perkins Marsh, b. 15 March, 1802, at Woodstock, Vt.; d. at Vallambrosa, Italy, 24 July, 1882, 80.

1866. William Barton Rogers, LL.D., b. December, 1805, at Philadelphia, Pa.; d. at Boston, 30 May, 1882, 76.

NOTES IN GEOLOGY AND LITHOLOGY.

By M. E. WADSWORTH, Ph.D.

6. On the relations of the so-called Felsite to the Conglomerate on Central Avenue, Milton, Mass.

The most interesting problem in the geology of Eastern Massachusetts is the question of the age of the rocks.

Their age has been assumed for them by various writers; but, beyond mere theoretical grounds, no foundation exists for the various opinions advanced, outside of the Braintree argillite and its associated Quincy granite.

Evidence of one kind was, however, given two years ago, indicating some probability that the conglomerate of Milton was younger than a felsite existing there and regarded as of Huronian age. It was claimed that the conglomerate was older than the Primordial argillite and underlying it, although both were held to be continuous formations of Primordial age. It was also claimed that no pebbles of argillite could be found in the conglomerate, a statement bearing out the above conclusion. (Am. Jour. Sci. 1880, (3), XIX. 116-122; Ocas. Papers. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1880, III. 89, 220, 221, 270, 271.)

It was stated that at the locality mentioned above a felsite was exposed on the northwest side of Central Avenue, upon which a conglomerate lay, composed largely of the felsitic debris. The contact between them was said to be straight and well defined, marking a fault between the two formations, dipping N. 75° and striking east and west. Cleavage was said to be developed parallel to the fault line. The bedding was said to dip steeply to the southeast with a N. E.-S. W. strike.

erate. The conglomerate is composed largely of argillaceous detritus of a character to be readily acted upon by thermal waters.

This action appears to have been sufficiently marked on a portion of the rock to obscure its conglomerate characters, and to cause it, on account of its color, to superficially resemble the felsite of Eastern Massachusetts. It can be seen that in this portion of the conglomerate there have been formed segregated irregular masses of vein stone quartz, which also indicates water action as before mentioned. Оп examining the supposed felsite, many argillaceous pebbles only partly obliterated can be seen, and specimens showing them have been collected and deposited in the Whitney lithological collection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Microscopic examination of thin sections of the "felsite" also bears out the field evidence that it is an altered conglomerate and not a felsite.

A careful examination of the conglomerate at this locality and at various others along Central Avenue convinced the writer that the general strike of the deposition planes was approximately east and west, and that the supposed fault plane lay nearly in the line of bedding. The fault plane is one of the numerous planes by which the rocks of Eastern Massachusetts are intersected, and along which motion has taken place, usually of only a few inches. While extended motion might have taken place here, there appeared to be no evidence that such motion had occurred. The fault plane extends directly across the Avenue, dividing the conglomerate on the east side into two parts. The continuation of the so-called felsite across the Avenue would join it to an exceedingly well marked conglomerate. Since the fault plane is continuous and the conglomerate also extends across the street, it must be supposed that the "felsite" in like manner would extend across the narrow space in question, unless gratuitous hypotheses are resorted to, to support the felsite theory.

The bedding is shown to strike east and west by the position of the pebbles in various localities, which are of such a nature that they could not be affected by the supposed cleavage. Also pebbles that would be readily affected by pressure lie across the supposed cleavage, but in reality true bedding planes, exactly as they would if these planes were bedding planes, but not as they would if they were cleavage ones. Again, the lines of finer and coarser sedimentation proves that these are bedding planes. This shows with remarkable distinctness a few rods south of the "felsite" locality on Central Avenue. Here a coarse conglomerate alternates repeatedly with bands of sandstone, so that the planes of deposition are unmistakable.

This last locality shows pebbles of argillite of various sizes, from minute ones to those from one to two feet in length. This argillite resembles the supposed Primordial argillite exposed on the O. C. Mattapan branch railroad a short distance to the northwest. This then would prove that the conglomerate in this locality was younger than the argillite. Another fact bearing upon the same question is the occurrence of a conglomerate composed of the debris of the Quincy granite, and lying to the northward of it along Adams Street. This conglomerate has been assumed to be the same as the Roxbury conglomerate. The writer has shown before that the Quincy granite is eruptive in the Primordial argillite, and it has been seen by him and others to have eruptive characters, wherever it has been found in contact with the argillite of the region. How then is it possible to imagine that a rock like the Quincy granite could be in situ, having the same characters that it has to day; be denuded, forming a conglomerate, over which the Primordial argillite

was laid down, and then erupted through this argillite? This, too, when the argillite has been declared to be unaltered or only partially so by the advocates of such views.

It would seem that the only logical conclusion is, that more than one conglomerate exists in the Boston basin, or else that the conglomerate is younger than the argillite, or again more than one argillite exists. All these suppositions may indeed prove to be true, but further observations are needed before any def statements can be made on this ubject.

It may be stated here as a conclusion from the above that, as the writer has repeatedly shown, serious mistakes have been made regarding the lithological character of many rocks in Eastern Massachusetts; and that the supposed pre-Primordial (Huronian) age of the felsite is not borne out on Central Avenue, for the rock is not a felsite but a conglomerate.

tion to the Museum, but before it is arranged in the cases it is the desire of the Curator to exhibit it to the Subscribers of the Fund, and to others particularly interested in the work of the Museum. The Curator feels warranted in stating that during no previous year have the explorations of the ancient mounds and prehistoric burial-places of the United States been so productive of important results, and he wishes in this course of lectures to show to those interested the object of asking their support in aid of the work of the Museum, by an explanation of the methods of systematic research, and an exhibition of the results of the labor of one season.

The lectures will be as follows:

Nov. 9. An account of ancient shell-heaps on the coast of Maine, with an exhibition of the specimens collected. Nov. 16. The exploration of a prehistoric burial-place of the stone-grave people, at Brentwood, Tennessee, and of two large earth-mounds in the vicinity, with an exhibition of the contents of eighty stone-graves.

Nov. 23. An account of the ancient cemetery near Madisonville, Ohio, and of the singular "ash-pits" found in it; also of the earth-circles near by, with an exhibition of the large collection made during the exploration of the cemetery and the ash-pits.

Dec. 7. The exploration of a group of altar mounds in the valley of the Little Miami River, Ohio, with an exhibition of a collection of objects probably the most interesting and important ever obtained from the Western mounds.

Dec. 14. An account of "Fort Ancient," Ohio, the largest prehistoric earth-work in the United States, which encloses an area of 100 acres, illustrated by a diagram of the fort.