and 1880 he was engaged in exploring the great iron deposits of the Vermillion district in Minnesota. An account of this work is given in the "Eleventh Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Minnesota." Other explorations have been made in Ontario and Nova Scotia, in Michigan, Colorado, Nevada, California, Utah, Arkansas and Missouri. The investment of millions of dollars has been determined by Professor Chester's reports, and in no instance have his conclusions been found inaccurate or misleading.

Besides frequent contributions to scientific periodicals, Professor Chester is the author of "A Catalogue of Minerals, Alphabetically Arranged, with their Chemical Composition and Synonyms." This book was published in 1886, by John Wiley & Sons, New York. His preparation for this work was made with great thoroughness, and Dr. James A. H. Murray of Oxford, England, in the preface to the first volume of his "New English Dictionary on Historical Principles," makes acknowledgment of his obligations to Professor Chester for valuable aid in the history of mineralogical terms. His private library is enriched with many rare

old books in his favorite departments of research.

In 1878 Professor Chester received, on examination, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, from the trustees of Columbia College, an academic title amply earned by his pre-eminent success as a college instructor, by his unwearied devotion to scientific and scholarly pursuits, and his widely-known achievements as a mining engineer.

COLLEGE TRUSTEES.

More than one hundred and fifty honored men have rendered Hamilton College service as Trustees, since the Institution was chartered. On the long roll are names prominent in Church and State. Some of these eminent men gave the College almost a life service. The late General John Jay Knox, a merchant and banker may be instanced. He was a trustee for nearly fifty years. The love of a cultured family for Hamilton is illustrated in him and his. Four of his sons and four of his grandsons graduated there. The Rev. Dr. Wm. E. Knox, who was a trustee from 1876 until the year of his death, graduated in 1840. Hon. John Jay Knox, Ex-Comptroller of the National Currency, President of the National Bank of the Republic New York City, and a member of the

present Board of Trustees of the College, was in the class of 1849. Hon. Henry M. Knox, a banker, graduated in 1851, and Rev. Dr. Chas. E. Knox, President of the German Theological Seminary, Newark, N. J., was in the class of 1856.

The chairman of the present Board, Hon. Henry A. Foster, LL. D., has served fifty-three years. The late Samuel B. Woolworth, LL. D. served forty-four years. The late Dr. Simeon North, forty-five years, and the late Hon. Horatio Seymour fortytwo years. A large number were trustees more than ten years. The present Secretary of the Board of Trustees is the Rev. Dr. Thos. B. Hudson.

The members of the present Board of Trustees are: Hon. Henry A. Foster, LL. D., Rome, elected 1836; Hon. William J. Bacon, LL. D., Utica, 1856; William D. Walcott, Esq., New York Mills, 1863; Charles C. Kingsley, A. M., Utica, 1867; Rev. L. Merrill Miller, D. D., Ogdensburg, 1869; Publius V. Rogers, A. M., Utica, 1869; Gen. Samuel S. Ellsworth, A. M., Penn Yan, 1870; Rev. Henry Kendall, D. D., New York, 1871; Gilbert Mollison, Esq., Oswego, 1871; Hon. Ellis H. Roberts, LL. D., Utica, 1872; Hon. Daniel P. Wood, A. M., Syracuse, 1874; Hon. George M. Diven, A. M., Elmira, 1874; Hon. Theodore W. Dwight, LL. D., New York, 1875; Hon. Joseph R. Hawley, LL. D., Hartford, Conn., 1875; Pres. David H. Cochran, Ph. D., LL. D., Brooklyn, 1875; Rev. James B. Lee, D. D., Franklinville, 1877; Rev. James B. Shaw, D. D., Rochester, 1877; Pres. Henry Darling, D. D., LL. D., Clinton, 1880; Prof. Edward North, L. H. D., LL. D., Clinton, 1881; Hon. Elihu Root, A. M., New York, 1883; Hon. John Jay Knox, A. M., New York, 1884; Charles A. Hawley A. M., Seneca Falls, 1884; Rev. Thomas B. Hudson, D. D., Clinton, 1884; Horace B. Silliman, A. M., Cohoes, 1885; A. Norton Brockway, A. M., M. D., New York, 1885; Rev. T. Ralston Smith, D. D., Buffalo, 1886; Rev. George B. Spalding, D. D., Syracuse, 1886; Hon. Theodore M. Pomeroy, A. M., Auburn, 1886; Rev. Thomas B. Hudson, D. D., Secretary, (1885), and Treasurer, 1886; Charles A Borst, A. M., Assistant to the Treasurer, 1881.

COLLEGE TREASURERS.

Seven Treasurers since 1812, have had the custody of the College funds: Erastus Clark, (Dartmouth,) an able lawyer, James Dean,

(Union,) also a lawyer and fine classical scholar, Othniel Williams, (Yale,) another honored member of the bar, and a faithful college officer, Benjamin Woolsey Dwight, M. D., (Yale,) a ripe scholar and an accurate and methodical business man, Othniel Samuel Williams, LL. D., (Hamilton,) a man with a genius for business, and also a scholar of fine literary tastes, Publius V. Rogers, (Hamilton,) and the Rev. Thomas B. Hudson, D. D. (Hamilton,) for a time tutor in the College, and since 1870 Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Clinton.

BEQUESTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

The first bequest received by Hamilton College was in 1832, when Hon. William H. Maynard, a member of the State Senate, died of Asiatic cholera in New York City, and left an endowment of twenty thousand dollars for the Chair of Law, History and Political Economy. An addition of ten thousand dollars to this fund was afterwards made by Hon. James Knox, of Knoxville, Illinois, who had been a law-student in the office of Senator Maynard. An endowment of thirty thousand dollars for the President's Chair was given by the late Benjamin S. Walcott and his son, William D. Walcott, of New York Mills, whose name is a synonym throughout Central New York, for integrity and Christian generosity. The endowment of thirty thousand dollars for the Observatory was given by the late Edwin C. Litchfield, of Brooklyn, a graduate of the College in 1832. The Professorship of Chemistry was endowed by the late Silas D. Childs, of Utica, and his wife Mrs. Roxana Childs, bequeathed sixty thousand dollars more. The Chair of Natural History was endowed by the late Mrs. Valeria Stone, of Malden, Massachusetts, and the Chair of Mathematics by the late Samuel Fletcher Pratt, of Buffalo. Honorable Gerrit Smith gave twenty thousand dollars for current expenses.

Many smaller bequests, permanent scholarships and timely gifts tell how the passing needs of a College will be provided for, when it faithfully performs its work in preparing young men for the highest duties in Church and State. An example of Christian beneficence has the power of an endless life. The good that good men do can never be buried with their bones. It multiplies itself in endless inspirations of good.